Just got back from this years Cyprus International 4-day Challenge.  This event has been going for 4 years now and is perhaps more of a European event rather than a truly International event, as most entrants come from nearby

Hello! Welcome to my Cyprus International 4-day Challenge blog. The Challenge is a stage race held in the Akamas peninsula of Cyprus, taking in four very different races - and I'll be blogging throughout.My runningI've been running for about four

-runner on a running holiday point, his Mrs went to Cyprus and although I'm sure she was bored with the constant running chat she did seem to have a fab time. Mind you Cyprus was only 4 days of running and that wasn't even for the whole day so don't know how

Well done and you didn't come last!!! congratulation and i am try to comming as soon as.

Brilliant write up thanks for that, I might sign up for this next year sounded great fun!!

After a couple of days of lying around on a sunlouger by the pool (very pleasant) and dwelling on the races ahead (not so pleasant) the wheels finally began to grind into motion. Yesterday was a busy day - by the standards of the life of luxury I

heavy in my legs. If that wasn't the perfect finish to my Cyprus Challenge, a clanging sign of how much I can get back out of the training I put in - and motivation to keep running - I don't know what is.Time: 1:11:59Pace: 11:41/milePosition: 339/343

was bricking it at the start of the half-marathon. I genuinely didn't know whether I'd make it round in one piece - or have my Challenge come to a premature end, carted off by the sweeper van (or ambulance).But I took it super slow and steady (with yet more

cruel.Last time I ran the Challenge, the 11K was by far my least favourite of the four, so I was dreading it this week in my unfit state. In 2009 I had simply never ran a race like it - it was a total culture shock. I went about it all the wrong way

://www.cyprusmarathon.com/index2.htm or e-mail them at: run@cyprusmarathon.com And there's the 4- day Challenge which is a top event......Cyprus International 4-Day Challenge I appear to have joined a 12-year old thread............. 8 years actually Here's me thinking it's 2016