Limited to 50 Canicross entries - Get your entry in early to avoid disappointment.

 Website: www.wyedean-mushing.com

Four stage Canicross race - this is your chance to take part in a unique event, a first for the UK.  Two evening runs and two daytime runs in one weekend on fantastic forest trails. Trails will vary from 4-6kms. The Wyedean Quest is challenging and is the perfect race for those wishing to try a little more distance, run a stage stop event or wanting a little more for their money!

This is more than just a race, with a competitors hog roast/bbq, support teams and a real social feel, you dont want to miss this years race!!! 

This event runs alongside the Wyedean Quest Sled dog event and provides the runners the opportunity to witness the sled-dogs in action. 

(Headtorches are essential, support teams are preferable as starts and finishes are not always in the same place, other runners and mushers may be able to give you a lift.  A list of entrants will be published so that pre-arrangements can be made)  

Sat 27th Mar 2010

Bolt 'round the Holt, Alice Holt Forest, Hampshire 

Website - www.allabouttriathlons.co.uk/

Supporting GUTS and St. Luke's Cancer Fund the Bolt 'Round the Holt 5k, 10k and 21k Fun Run is open to all ages and standards and is set in the beautiful Alice Holt Forest, Farnham, Surrey. All funds raised from this event will go towards supporting these two charities.

Sat 1st May 2010

The Wiggle Thunder 10km Canicross Race  

Website: www.provelosupportuk.co.uk

Free camping. (Friday morning until 8pm Sunday evening.) Excellent facilities, including hot showers and flushing toilets. Trackside parking, to get you right up close to where the action is. Excellent catering facilities. On-site drinking water. Extremely well marshalled and signed course. 

Fri 23rd May 2010 

Keswick Festival 10km and 3km - The Lake District 

Website: www.209events.com

Salomon are pleased to be part of the Keswick Mountain Festival for the second time with this very scenic 10km Trail Run around Cat Bells and along the lakeside that gained rave reviews on the Runner's World website.  

The event will be based out of the Newlands Adventure centre approx 3 miles from Keswick and will take a route along the side of Cat Bells before going over the ridge and dropping down to the Lakeside path. The views across the lake are breathtaking and well worth the effort of the climb.

The event is intended to be a great introduction to trail running for those who have until now run mostly on the roads, while at the same time satisfying regurlar trail runners or fell runners. The run isn't a full-on fell race and all the running is on well marked trails. The climb over the ridge at Cat Bells is demanding and the descent to the lake takes some care but you do not need to have masses of off-road experience to manage it.

Thur 27th to Mon 31st May 2010

The Forces March 2010 - 5 day - 131 mile - Charity March

Website: www.forcesmarch.org.uk

Military charity Project 65 has created FORCES MARCH, an incredible annual ‘Super challenge’ to raise funds for the care and support of wounded armed forces personnel and bereaved families. We are extending invitations to the entirety of Her Majesty’s armed forces, emergency services and civilians to enter a team into the march. The event is open to both able-bodied and disabled participants. Teams consist of a minimum of 4 persons and each team must have their own support crew and vehicle to assist with transportation, camp set-up and equipment supplies.

Entrants may also choose to do any combination of 1 stage to all 5 stages. You can enter FORCES MARCH as an individual as well. Transport vehicles are being laid on to transport individual entrant’s kit from the start to the finish of each stage.

6th June 2010  

The Magic Roundabout 10km - Hay on Wye

Website: www.hayhotfooters.co.uk

The Magic Roundabout 2010.

Review of last years event - What a fantastic day, 162 runners including 6 Cani X runners and dogs ran the very hot and fast course on Sunday 31st of May. The course record was set at 39.21 by Matt James of Hereford Couriers. The first lady in was Lisa Quinn also of Hereford Couriers in 45.21. Well done to everyone who took part. 

Tue 29th June 2010

10km Forest Trail, Swinley Forest, Bracknell

Website - www.209events.com/

A pleasant evening run from the Look Out along wide sandy trails with a hilly section and single track around Caesars Camp. The Forest Trail series are aimed at all levels of runner offering enough of a challenge for the experience runner but still within the capabilities of new comers.

Thurs 1st July 2010

10km Forest Trail, Epping Forest, London

Website - www.209events.com/

Our first Forest Trail Run inside the M25 gives a unique trail experience in the surprisingly vast Epping Forest with a constant reminder of it's urban setting with glimpses of the towers of Canary Wharf in evidence.

This is a beautiful route mostly on wide gravely trails through the forest with sections of single track to add to the fun.

Tues 13th July 2010

10km Forest Trail, Sherwood Pines, Nr Mansfield, E Midlands

Website - www.209events.com/

Sherwood Pines was a new venue for the Forest Trail series last year and what a superb forest it is to run in too - even though we were hit by a freak heavy rain storm just as the runners set off!

Starting an finishing close to the visitors centre, the course will take in some of the marked trails in this large country park and some very pleasant single track through beach, birch and oak glades.

Thurs 15th July 2010

10km Forest Trail, Delemare Cheshire

Website - www.209events.com/

Always the most popular of the salomon Forest trails with 550 runners  and the runners enjoyed perhaps the hardest of the routes, with a major climb for a mile soon after the start - although this was followed by flatter trails through the pine forest and an excellent single track section before returning to the finish.

With numbers likely to increase again we will re-configure the start loop to cut out congestion in the first 2kms - but never fear, we will be keeping in 'The Hill'.

7th-15th August 2010 

The Trophee Des Montagnes - French Alps

Website www.tropdesmon.org/

We are awaiting the website for the 2010 event to be published but the dates have been confirmed as 7-15th of August. The event takes place in the French Alps with 12 races over the period of 9 days. The event is a series of races held at 4 different villages in the high Alps, from each location you will run 4 races, sometimes 2 a day and some will be in the dark, bring a headtorch. There are mass starts of up to 100 runners and dogs, handicap chases and relays to be run. You will find yourself running up and down the pistes of the Alps without skis or snow, crossing streams, races cover 3 to 8kms and cover some serious up and down hills. In 2008 one race climbed the height of Snowdon and finished at a cable car station, where you then returned to the start with your dog in the cable car.

These links will take you to the start points of the 2008 and 2009 events.

Alpe de Grand Serre, Vaujany, Auris, Oz-en-Oisans 

These maps will show you the general areas that the event takes place in.

This is a truly amazing event, Cush and I will be going next year, so check out your diary and start booking your journey, I know I am.

Please contact me direct if you are considering going to the event, we can give you advice on the area, accomodation and travel.