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Organising the finest travel packages to the Worlds best marathons, from New York to the Great Wall,

Guaranteed race entry to the New York Marathon and other major events with back-up coaching advice from a group of high achieveing athletes such as Mike Gratton and Chicago Marathon and Olympic 10,000m finalist Paul Evans.

04/10/2026

Sunday January 24 is the one day next year when you can race inside the grounds of Britain's most famous safari park, at the Longleat 10K. It start and finishes within sight of 16th century Longleat House, one of the finest examples of Elizabethan architecture in the country.
You won’t see Longleat’s famous lions in person on the course -which is no bad thing - but you’ll take them home with you! Every runner receives a lion medal and this fetching woolly hat at the finish — a roaring reward for your efforts. It's been quite breezy at the race for the past couple of years so you'll need the hat.
Go to www.longleat10k.co.uk for more details and to enter the race.

03/10/2026

One of the best ways to break up the long winter nights of November and December is to escape from them. There are few better places to escape than the beautiful mediterranean island of Cyprus. The catch is that you'll be there to run complete the Leptos International 4-day Running Challenge, which is quite a running test. The event takes place between November 26-29 so this really is your last chance to sign up for the 2027 race. See our website for more details.

02/10/2026

Put 'W**e Run UK' into google and you'll see that there are now a number different running options available. We are happy to see that the top of every search list is the Bacchus W**e Half and 10K, an annual race run in partnership with Denbies Vineyard. It's not surprising 'Bacchus' dates back over 15 years about the same time when English w**e was starting to make a name for itself. Since Bacchus has a limit of only 3000 runners, which always sell out months in advance of the September race date, it's inevitable that others might have seen the opportunity.
If you want to run the biggest and most popular w**e race in the UK, don't wait too long, nearly half the entries for next year's Bacchus have already gone and we are still over 11 months away from the race, which takes place on September 12, 2027.

01/10/2026

There are so many extraordinary places to run around the world, but few as extraodrinary as Bhutan in the Himilayas, the home of our very own Thunder Dragon Marathon.

Why not swap the streets of London, Boston or Cape Town for pristine Himalayan scenery, forest trails and the beauty of Bhutan’s Paro Valley where the race takes place. With colourful prayer flags, traditional villages and mountain views at every turn, this is a running adventure you’ll remember long after you cross the finish line. Choose the marathon or half marathon and discover a country where happiness is part of the national identity. Come for the challenge, stay for the culture, and leave with unforgettable memories.

30/09/2026

Last chance for one of our guaranteed entries and packages for the 2027 Sanlam Cape Town Marathon. It will be the first time that the race is being run as part of the Abbott World Marathon Majors. We have two places left which we are selling on a first come basis. Go to our website for more details about prices and the package.

29/09/2026

A few of our group at this year's BMW Berlin Marathon showing off their medals.
If you are interested in running the race in 2027, drop us a line at [email protected] and we'll make sure you have first option on one of our packages for next year.

28/09/2026

Berlin put on another magnificent show yesterday with more than 50,000 runners completing the 52nd running of the BMW Berlin Marathon. It was a warm day and not quite the record day the organisers had hoped for. For much of the race it looked like it would witness another world record with Ethiopia’s Tigist Assefa on track to break the much-debated women’s mark of 2:09:56. At 40K she was ahead of the pace only an Achilles problem to hinder her over the last mile. She still won in a course record and PB of 2:11:04. After the sub-two hour performances at London this year, the men's winning time of 2:02:51 by Ethiopian Guye Adola felt a little disappointing, which is crazy.
As is the way of Berlin with its pancake flat, super-fast course we had a quite PBs in our group in our runners. Congratulations to all our runners who completed the distance yesterday, finishing a marathon is never anything to be taken lightly.

25/09/2026

Great to be back in Berlin for our annual visit ahead of this year's marathon on Sunday. After surviving two-hour plus queues at airport immigration most of our runners have now arrived at our various hotels.
Today it's mostly an Expo day collecting numbers and race packs before the hoard of local runners arrive later tonight and tomorrow. After a year at a different location it's fun to be back at the old Templehof airport for this year's Expo.

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