6. Stockholm MarathonStockholm is an unusual marathon. It challenges your preconceptions both of Scandinavia and of marathon running. It starts at 2pm on a Saturday afternoon in early June, when the weather is warm and balmy and the city is full

Stockholm Marathon, May From fortifying slices of post-race cheesecake to following in the footsteps of pilgrims in the Middle Ages, Sweden’s races are a beguiling mixture of culture, camaraderie and catch-your-breath scenery. Here’s our guide

Marathon, Sweden2010 Date: June 5Scandinavia’s largest marathon has previously been voted the world’s top destination marathon. The two-loop course runs partly by the side of the Baltic, and passes many of Stockholm’s most historic points including

. London Marathon, April2. Berlin Marathon, September3= New York City Marathon, November3= Chicago Marathon, October5. Boston Marathon, April6. Stockholm Marathon, June7. Rotterdam Marathon, April8. Paris Marathon, April9. Honolulu Marathon

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The city that hosted the 1995 World Athletics Championships has also put on a wonderful half-marathon for the past 24 years. The course is a quick one and the field is large (close to 30,000). And although Göteborg often lives in the shadow of Stockholm, it

Running a marathon is a major event for most of us. That’s why more and more of us are heading abroad to race over 26.2 miles. Most of us who visit European cities to race, such as Stockholm or Berlin for the weekend, think of the marathon

, in Stockholm, a Portuguese runner died in the sweltering Olympic Marathon. Many of us remember Gabriele Andersen-Schiess struggling with the effects of dehydration and heat exhaustion in the 1984 Women’s Olympic Marathon in Los Angeles, and staggering across

sessions?In a word, yes! The truth is that quality sessions do not have to last any longer than 45 minutes to produce major gains in fitness. Take, for example, the classic study carried out at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm several years ago

I set a PB twice during 11 marathons in 11 weeks - the fourth and the sixth marathon in the series. - Plodding HippoI did London last year and Stockholm six weeks later. It can be done (obviously) but I just focussed on getting around the both