4K fun run and Junior event taking place alongside the main fixture, there's sure to be something for everyone at the Clandon Park 10K. Not least a pre-race warm-up and free massage to ease you into tip-top racing condition. It's certainly no walk

the South Downs Way and the National Trail. Not ready for the full marathon? Then round up your running friends and enter the relay event instead. Enter online now.7. Farnham Pilgrim MarathonSurrey, September 19 Follow in the footsteps of pilgrims along

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

worth it. The race offers three days of gazing over the grandeur of Mont Blanc, the lake at Annecy and the splendour of the high Alps, and is run up mountain trails and forest rides, and across high, open mountain pastures. If that all sounds too much

the breed of runner who enjoyed school cross-country because its undulating route is 95 per cent trail and field. The testing course made for slow times and first home was Richard Findlow in 32:43, while Dianne Waite was first woman (40:18).The straight

-up to the Athens Olympics.The Cyprus Challenge is just one of the top-notch overseas training and racing packages we've put together with our travel partners at 2:09 Events, whose director is 1983 London Marathon winner Mike Gratton. So if you're immune to the lure

of trails over more than 3,000ft of ascent, the Midsummer Munro Half in Surrey is said by some to be tougher than a flat marathon course. But this doesn’t deter the race’s loyal band of fans who return every year. With eight tough ascents on the course

. The single-lap course is gently undulating, following the Arboretum's well-kept and traffic-free gravel trails – and if you’re not up to a PB, not to worry – the surroundings are more than enough to tempt runners to take the race at a slower pace. When

and trails around the Shropshire village of Badger for the sixth time. A small, hardy and friendly band of runners, made up of a mix of serious club contenders and fun runners, will be out in force to enjoy a charming trail run through quiet countryside

and plenty of runners who'd travelled a distance to take part.The route, run mostly on roads but with a small trail section through some woods and a mile-long stretch across Hinton Airfield, was encouraging enough to induce a gung-ho approach, but with more