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

‘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

Let your running loose

Our selection of the best, fastest, toughest, quirkiest and most enjoyable UK races this month

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

A plan to attract more hackers to the Shropshire Hills leads a local endurance rider to complete more than 600 miles in the saddle as part of the Pathfinder Project. Charlotte Cooper finds out what it’s all about