What is ‘type 2 fun’? There’s a handful of different definitions around, but one of our favourites goes like this: ‘Miserable while it’s happening, but fun in retrospect’. How do you know if you’ve ex

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If you’re looking for a running challenge in the new year, there’s one at every racing distance – from one to 100 miles. But, which is best for you?

The Sandals Foundation Island Challenge sees athletes take on four epic events in four days. Our fitness director, Andrew Tracey, was at its latest iteration in Saint Lucia to run, kayak, hike and climb across the island

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‘Should go far’ was the footnote to an end-of-term school report supposedly handed to my parents in 1967. It’s doubtful, however, that staging marathon trips in someone else’s car was what the teacher