.... What the organisers say:"It's a tough course, with some demanding sections. But the atmosphere is great and the level of suport between the runners is really strong."What RW says:“More mud, sweat and tears, over 8 miles of a fantastic course.”What you

at my PC late at night looking for an event with a difference, I stumbled across a race website for The North Pole Marathon. It instantly seemed to tick all the boxes. A race run entirely on ice, in temperatures as low as –30C, in the middle

that I’d written The Lord Of The Rings – but when I woke up, I realised I’d only been Tolkien in my sleep.Then last night, I dreamed I was lying on my back in a shabby hotel room, staring as a slow fan churned through a tepid soup of sweat and stale air

that allows you to enjoy the event as much as the spectators cheering you on?When Tom Day started running for Leukaemia Research after his father was diagnosed with the disease, he decided to become part of the charity's Banana Army at last year's London

1. Easy Runner Sodbury Slog 8.5Gloucestershire, November 14   Running up and down South Gloucestershire’s hills covered in mud and sweat may seem like a strange way to commemorate Remembrance Sunday, but that is what 1,300 of you did in 2010. After

I have researched the course as thoroughly as I can. But this has increased my trepidation rather than quelled it. One finisher described it as "14 miles of fun, eight miles of sweat and four miles of hell". Most of the first half of the race is downhill

sweat. Once you've warmed up along quiet residential streets, you'll have to slog it out on a single trail climbing the tough Leckhampton hill. At 5K the slope finally plateaus so you can enjoy the stunning Malvern Hill views and look out for the Devils

could live to regret the enthusiasm with which you tackled the opening descent.Terminator 10Terminator 10 (Wiltshire, February 25) If your race-day wish-list reads blood, sweat, tears and more mud than a hippo’s bathtub, then this is the event for you

rationing a reality of daily life, the idea of running for fitness or weight-loss is incomprehensible. That's one of the main reasons why former London Marathon winner and running tour operator Mike Gratton wanted to create an event in Cuba. The Caribbean

At the time of writing, your event rating for Sunday's Great North Run gives the world's biggest half marathon an overall score of 77 per cent. Not bad, but a long way off the 96 per cent scored by the same day's Anglesey Marathon, and also dwarfed