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Racecheck Awards announced for 2017

Racecheck, the race review platform for endurance sports events, have announced that the Racecheck Awards will be returning in 2017 to recognise the very best events as rated by their members.

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2018 Shrewsbury Half Marathon open for registration

UK Run Events, the organisers of the Shrewsbury Half Marathon powered by UKRunChat and Breathe Unity, have announced that the 2018 event will take place on Sunday 17th June and entries are now open.

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Running Legend Kathrine Switzer Completes 2017 TCS New York City Marathon

While leading a group of 13 dedicated runners from Team 261 Fearless through the five boroughs of New York, women's running pioneer Kathrine Switzer completed the 2017 TCS New York City Marathon posting another amazing milestone in her legendary long-distance running career by running the NYC Marathon and this past April's Boston Marathon in her fifth decade of competitive running. At the age of 70, she ran a time of 4:48.

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Winner of penultimate 2017 #clickyourclock is Bramhall parkrunner Phil Higginbottom!

We are pleased to announce thewinner of this week's#clickyourclockcompetition as Phil Higginbottom (handicap 15.3), who has shown impressive consistency recently with another solid performance at his local undulating and picturesque parkrun.

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Two more weeks of the 2017 #clickyourclock competition

Did you race this weekend?The resultsare rolling in. Make sure you#clickyourclockon yours before 0830hrs on Thursday morning to be in with a chance of winning a Polar FT1 heart rate monitor in the penultimate week of thiscompetition.We have two morePolar heart rate monitors to give as prizes but there will be other competitions over the winter months.

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"London Calling" on sale now!

Former runbritain MD, Geoff Wightman, who is both a commentator and coach in high performance athletics and was part of the organising group for the 2017 London World Championships, has published his reflective narrative that spans 18 months before and during the Championships.

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Headline Charities announced for 2018 JCP Swansea Half Marathon

The organisers of the award-winning JCP Swansea Half Marathon, Front Runner Events, have announced the Official Headline Charities for the event which takes place on Sunday 24th June 2018.

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