training – including kit – eating and drinking on the run comes down to practise and a bit of trial and error. You'll need to do this seriously, over long-run distance, at least four or five times before race day. Sometimes it takes months of patient

was relaying a recording of the alleged comedian, Bernard Manning.Rory was right about the dream thing. The inaugural MOB, a 174-mile middle England cousin of the Marathon des Sables, was looking like the most surreal event of my running career. And I hadn

for a post-race treat.Race website: www.fortiscpcloop.nl Runner's World Zandvoort Circuit Run, Zandvoort (March) 2009 Date: March 29Runner's World's own race at the former Formula 1 race circuit is one of the most exciting new events on the Dutch running

-participation events.  Fantastic race, great tea and cakes!" ian&eveReader Reviews2. Liverpool Santa Dash 5KWhere? Liverpool When? DecemberThe biggest run of its kind in the UK, the Liverpool Santa Dash is a tour of Liverpool city centre with a difference. The flat

Notorious Night Runs series: a trio of offroad events that pack in a 5K (ish) daytime dash, a 10K (ish) race as night falls, and a post-event knees-up, with camping facilities to stumble back to when the running and revelry is over.As you'd expect, the few

Right, now I’m getting nervous. Tomorrow I leave for French Guyana, and, as usual, I’ve left everything to the last minute. The list of kit seems to have stretched overnight.It includes 250mg of ciprofloxacin hydrochloride, 10mg of buscopan, 250mg

checkpoint.4. Dress RehearsalYour rucksack is possibly your most important purchase so choose wisely but trust in kit you've tried and tested. I used an OMM Classic 25L, which I've used for several years and it worked perfectly. A 25L pack is more than

wearing my clothes under my wetsuit, so it was just a matter of donning socks, shoes, helmet, gloves and Oakley’s.After a while I realised I'd got bag 651 instead of 851, so I had to run back the other way.Then blow me, the 600 row had been removed. I

National HighlightsVictory 5 (Hampshire, December 3) For those inclined to traditional short-distance racing, look no further than December’s Victory 5. While many races date back to the running boom of the mid-1980s, this fast, flat five

flinging on your running kit.Vila de Santa Pola Half-Marathon (January)2009 Date: tbcSanta Pola, south of Alicante on Spain’s Costa Blanc, is a traditional fishing town that has been attracting visitors since Roman times when fish were pickled and salted