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We are pleased to have added tours to the Athens Marathon (November 7th) and Tokyo Marathon (February 28t) to the website - two exceptional and very different cities and marathon experiences. SaabSalomon Forest Trail 10km & 3km Runs The second season of Forest Trail Runs kicks off at The Lookout, Bracknell Forest on Tuesday 30th June, and then at the following venues and evenings afterwards; Moors Valley, nr Bournemouth (July 2nd), Sherwood Pines, nr Mansfield (July 7th) and Delamere Forest, Cheshire (July 9th). Each run will start at 7pm with the supporting 3km beginners and kids run 5 minutes later. They are designed to run on an interesting mix of forest trails and hills that are difficult enough to interest an experienced runner but not so difficult that they are not suitable for runners stepping up to 10km trail running. All-in-all a perfect evening in stunning locations to enjoy your running in a semi competitve but relaxed environment. For full details of location and our other trail events visit http://www.saabsalomontrails.com/ or HERE for a for a full list of UK Events What's Hot? All of the major events, including the New York Marathon, Chicago Marathon, Medoc Marathon and Berlin Marathon have closed their books for direct entry. We have limited space for our International Travel Partner places at each of these events but they are filling fast and we recommend that you don't delay if you want to do these great events this year. We have 45 overseas events currently live on our website, including the big ones; New York, Chicago, Berlin, Medoc, Venice, Florence, Brussels, Amsterdam, Budapest as well as Trail, Adventure and Exotic Marathons. Click Here for a full list of the best travel and running experiences from now until next April. New York Half Marathon - August 16th Entries for the New York Half Marathon close on June 21st - if you haven't decided on a summer holiday yet then why not a city break to New York with the half marathon as a bonus - and the dollar rate is improving too. Paris and Rome Marathons 2010 We already have bookings for these two key events on the spring marathon programme - we are an official agent for Paris and the sole UK agent for Rome and it already looks like these are going to be most popular events next year. Visit the Paris and Rome pages for more information. I will be going to Cyprus in the middle of June to re-confirm all the routes for the fantastic Cyprus Challenge - at least that's my excuse for a mini-break from all the frantic activity in the UK in June - you can join me in November when we will be challenging you on the routes for real. Seriously, the Cyprus 4-Day Challenge we think is the best multi-stage event in the world and we welcome you to find out for yourself. Yours in sport Mike Gratton | 
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