We told you about the launch of the KielderMarathon the other day, in brief, it's a mostlyoff-road marathon being run on the new Lakeside Way around KielderWater in Northumberland in October 2010.At the launch by local running legend Steve Cram, he

The epic Salomon Kielder Marathon in back for 2012 - the one we miserably failed to start last year thanks to a minor, ahem, miscalculation over just how long it takes to recover from a 24-hour mountain bike solo race - and here's the launch video

The Montane Kielder 100 is Britain's first 100 mile, single lap, off-road mountain bike race. That's right, 100 miles, not those tiny little kilometres, and it was back for 2010!   One lap of a specially designed one hundred mile endurance mountain

It's kind of appropriate that North East running legend Steve Cram should launch the second Kielder Marathon which takes place on Sunday 9 October with 2,000 places available on a first come, first served basis.The race, which ran for the first time

One for the running diary with the news that geordie running legend Steve Cram islaunching a brand new, mostly off-roadmarathon around KielderWater, dubbed 'Britain's Most Beautiful Marathon'.Scheduled for 17October, 2010, the new marathon follows

We told you about the inaugural Kielder Marathon a few months back when Steve Cram launched the 'mostly off-road' event and it's a serious challenge, but as part of the weekend – 16-17 October – there's also a more accessible Run-Bike-Run team race

A quick heads up for anyone with a sideline in mountain biking, hatsoff to North East-based brand Montane for sponsoring the UK's 100-mile, single-lapmountain bike race, the Montane Kielder 100.This is a map of theroute, unfortunately you can't see

, more to the point, the standard, easyto use spray, seems to repel everything the Peak has to offer and stayseffective unless you're sweating on an industrial level.As a further test, we hightailed it up to the Montane Kielder 100 andtried it out

month's Kielder Marathon, instead of the sensible response, which would have been along the lines of: 'That's very kind, but I'm doing a 24-hour mountain bike race solo about eight weeks before and probably won't be in any fit state to run 26 miles any

the return of Britain's first one-lap,100-mile mountain bike race, the Montane Kielder 100 - we're getting inthe miles right now after crashing out halfway round last year.The new and improved Montane web site is at www.montane.co.uk.