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| | Toonie Express 2012 Calendar | | 4th Feb 2012 | The Rauceby Ripper The Ripper is an 8½ mile (approximately) multi-terrain course, over trail, edges of fields and some road sections. Starting within the grounds of Rauceby Hall, South Rauceby, Lincolnshire and finishing again back in South Rauceby near to the Village Hall. The course has been measured with Sat Navs and the 8.5 mile distance is reasonably accurate. Race Website: Click Here | | 5th Feb 2012 |  Start time is 10.30am on Sunday 5th Feb 2012. The venue is Catton Hall Estate once again and this 10k Xtreme Challenge is a different level of cross country running with natural obstacles, man made obstacles, water features, beautiful views of the local countryside. Expect the Unexpected | | 11th Feb 2012 | 
Hell In The Middle The HellRunner trilogy is now complete with a brand new trail of torment. We think it will be our hilliest, hardest and helliest HellRunner yet….it’s Hell In The Middle! The Brooks HellRunner is over multi-terrain and varying underfoot conditions. There will be everything from running tracks and trails to water-filled areas and plenty of steep hills. Expect to get cold and wet! It will be nature at its toughest. The course will be marked but do not expect to see mile or kilometre markers….that’s for those softy road running types. All you need to know is that the course will be probably more than 10 and less than 12 miles in length. Hey! With what we have in store, who’s counting? Hell In The Middle takes place over Cannock Chase’s Wolseley Plain area, a couple of miles to the west of Rugeley in Staffordshire. http://www.hellrunner.co.uk/ | | 19th Feb 2012 |  Caythorpe Dash Sunday 19th February 2012 Caythorpe Playing Field A mainly off road half marathon open to teams of 4 (2 male 2 female) & also individuals, start time 11am www.caythorpe.org | | 26th Feb 2012 | 
The Beast The Beast is a Double or Quit trail race of approximately 5 or 10 miles. The course includes steep hills, water, mud, 32 obstacles usually tackled by animals of a 4 legged variety, hills, a couple of surprises, oh and did we mention water. The Beast takes place at Aylesford Equine X Country Course, Aylesford Farm, Shoby, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, LE14 3PF, The Beast click here. | | 3rd March 2012 | 
Notorius Night Runs Sherwood Pines Sherwood Pines, Nottinghamshire: 3rd March 2012 For 2012, we’ll be back, bigger, and even better. For starters, March means an earlier start time for both 5k and 10k, which roughly translates as the chance to camp onsite the night before, more darkness, and more time to relax (party) afterwards. The course will remain relatively unchanged from 2011, with firm favourites the Borrow Hole, the Swamp, and Legendary Spooky Wood all making a welcome return.
Fancy dress is part of the fun, with Lincoln Green top of the what-to-wear list.
Whether you sign up to the daylight 5k(ish) or the torchlit 10k(and a bit), you’re all welcome to attend the Notorious after-party, with legendary live music and local hospitality, and a chance to sleep soundly in our onsite camping area.
Click here | Team Target Event | 10th March 2012 | 
Notorius Night Runs Yorkshire Terrier The Yorkshire Terrier - 10th March 2012 Ecky Thump. We’ve reet gone and done it now – it’s time for a brand new adventure in the deepest recesses of God’s country – a straight-talkin’, no nonsense, down right best in’t business running challenge. That goes into the dark. Trouble at mill wethinks. Our newest addition to the Notorious series comes from the centre of the World as we know it – Yorkshire. Doth thy flat cap and bathe yourself in glory at the Yorkshire Terrier – our muckiest romp yet and a stunning new entry on our Rat Race Notorious night running calendar. As ever, fancy dress is positively encouraged and jubilantly embraced. Pack a flat cap or two and don’t forget to reminisce of Yesteryear’s halcyon Yorkshire glory days – think mucky miners, flamboyant farmers, ruddy brewers and industrial sights n’ sounds. You’ll need your traction engine on you for this challenge however so make sure you dress accordingly – it is March in the North after all – it could get a bit brass monkeys. Whether you sign up to the daylight 5k (and the rest) or the torchlit 10k (and then some), you’ll be pitting yourself against the (egde) of the North York Moors: You can see famous Sutton Bank’s white horse from our base in the gently rolling Howardian Hills. York is only 10 miles south; and the vast expanse of moorland is to the north and east. Click here | Team Target Event | 11th March 2012 |  Newton’s Fraction Half Marathon Grantham Athletic Club’s annual ‘road’ race, Newton’s Fraction has been raced over a variety of distances in the past finally grew into a half marathon in 2006. Newton’s Fraction Half Marathon now its 7th year,is an accurately measured 13.1 mile race ,run under UKA rules. Starting and finishing at the South Kesteven Sports Stadium the ‘half’ heads out of Grantham into the Lincolnshire countryside onto the Grantham to Nottingham Canal towpath for nearly 3 miles to Woolsthorpe by Belvoir, taking in a couple of testing hills along the way before returning back into the stadium for a ‘grandstand’ finish. www.granthamac.com/nf | | 11th March 2012 |  Retford Rugby Club Half Marathon East Retford Rugby Club, Ordsall Road, Ordsall Retford DN22 7PW Start 400m from the rugby club on Ordsall road and finish at the Rugby club. The route will be marked in miles. The drinks station will be at 4.5, 6.5,9,11 miles and the finish There will be no entries on the day if the race limit is reached beforehand.
www.retfordrugby.co.uk
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Notorius Night Runs The Mighty Deerstalker Traquair House, Peeblesshire: 17th March 2012 After the sell-out success of 2011’s event, our attentions have already turned to 2012, for another turbo-charged roller-coaster of a run.... in tweed.
For 2012, the best becomes even better. As the flagship event in the Notorious Night Run series, the course will feature all the thrills, spills and hills you’ve come to expect, with regular wettings and obstacles like “The Rack”, “The Scree” and “The Tunnel” to push you to the edge. But, with a cap on entry numbers, we’re more confident than ever that you’ll stagger back, grinning like crazy folk.
Fancy dress is part of the fun, with tweed and tartan at the top of the what-to-wear list. When the gun goes off, a rampage of wool-wearing runners will storm along the tree lined avenues of Scotland’s oldest inhabited house, and towards the many challenges that await them.
Whether you sign up to the daylight 5k (and the rest) or the torchlit 10k (and then some), you’ll pit yourself against the landscape of the breathtaking Tweed Valley: followed by our Notorious after-party, with legendary live music and local hospitality, and a comfortable conclusion as you drift soundly away in our onsite camping area. Click here | Team Target Event | 24th March 2012 | 
Notorius Night Runs Horseplay Hambleden, Oxfordshire: 24th March 2012 With the 2011 event a fond memory, we look forward to 2012, and horsing around in the beautiful Hambleden Estate for a third year running. In the year of the Olympics, the Thames Valley seems the perfect place to host the finale of the Notorious Night Run series. Whether you sign up to run the daylight 5k(ish) or the torchlit 10k(and a bit), you’ll enjoy a right royal romp through a beautiful private estate: followed by our Notorious after-party, with legendary live music and local hospitality, and a comfortable conclusion as you drift soundly away in our onsite camping area. Fancy dress is part of the fun, with riding regalia top of the what-to-wear list. When the gun goes off, a stampede of flat caps and horsey headscarves will gallop across the show field and over the first of many genuine horsejumps, for the benefit of their supporters. Then it’s through the woods, over rolling hills and green paddocks to overcome natural and manmade obstacles such as Derby
Bank, Sleepy Hollow (where the Hollywood blockbuster of the same name was filmed), and the Final Furlong - you get the picture.
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| Team Target Event | 25th March 2012 |  Wild Warrior Wild Warrior obstacle race, adrenaline fuelled eXtreme challenges, including;- The Swamp of Doom, Water Slides, Tightropes, Tunnels, Quick Sand, Giant walls, Cargo Nets, Mud, Water and The Assault Course....!
Wild Warrior, is located at Wild Park, an amazing location, set in a picturesque valley on the outskirts of the Peak District National Park. The area has undulating fields, wooded areas and plenty of water and mud to wade through. The location is perfect for a trail run of this type! http://www.aaa-adventure.co.uk/Wild-Warrior-Obstacle-Race.html | | 25th March 2012 | 
The Farmyard Frolics The Farmyard Frolics is a 10km off road running adventure through woodland, farm tracks and across grassland held on the grounds of Brooksby Melton College’s Spinney Campus. Throughout the course there are various challenges and obstacles to overcome including straw bale towers, horse jumps, tractor tyre piles and of course plenty of mud and lots of water!
http://www.quest-events.co.uk/frolics.htm | | 31st March 2012 |  Endurer Dash The endurer team comprising of former Royal Marine have come up with a course packed full of obstacles that will test your stamina, strength, agility and determination. You will get tired, wet, and muddy! definitely sweat, laugh and possibly cry.
This is not your standard run. Don’t rock up and expect to be rubber necking at the amazing Peak District scenery, or sniffing the fresh country air on a gentle morning jog. Expect to become one with the mud and work your lungs so hard they will burn. Expect to dash between obstacle in a fusion of assault course, cross country and track sprints. Expect the challenge. Come prepared to triumph. Peak District, Sheffield www.endurerevents.co.uk | | 1st April 2012 | 
Grantham Cup Lion Gates, Belton House, Grantham www.granthamac.com | | 1st April 2012 |  Rossington Gallop Doncaster`s own Grand National(minus the horse)
6miles approx off road trail run with Grand National obstacles `Take the challenge of Doncaster`s Grand National for runner`s!!!`
Back by popular demand now on the 3rd year running with more fun than ever with being run on April Fool`s day we incorparate a "FOOL`S CHALLENGE".
Beat the "clown/fool" and recieve a gift voucher but beware he is already in training!!!!!!! http://www.metrestomiles.co.uk | | 7th April 2012 | 
The Wolf Run The Wolf Run is an approx. 10k off-road run through the Warwickshire countryside with obstacles (man-made and natural) located throughout the run. The concept behind the Wolf Run was to re-create the feeling of running in natural terrain - a wild run that would allow runners to experience natural, raw running conditions as far as possible whilst also presenting runners with a challenging, interesting and seriously enjoyable event. The Wolf Run is held in Warwickshire, near Leamington Spa.
http://www.thewolfrun.com | | 22nd April 2012 & 16th Sept 2012 | 
The Demon Run London Swinley Forrest is probably best known for the filming of many a scene from Harry Potter, where you'll be going though is certainly no place for kids and if we made a film it would be X-Rated! This is Trail running turned Nasty with plenty of natural obstacles and a few of our own thrown in for good measure! 2 distances, around 5 miles and 10 miles in length http://www.thedemonrun.co.uk | | 29th April 2012 | 
Mud Runner Oblivion A supreme test of fitness ! Participants will complete a 6ish mile gruelling cross country course interspersed with ten different tests of strength, endurance and co-ordination.
This is a different course to the Mud Runner cross country held in the autumn and as it is held in May, we cannot guarantee it will be muddy, however, competitors will need to be able to swim ! (well, to be honest you won't need to swim very far - 30-50 meters, and there will be lots of ropes for you to pull yourself along with if you don't really fancy a paddle). Eastnor Castle, Herefordshire
Event Website | | 11th May 2012 | 
Notts 10 This is a real PB course. Flat wide traffic free roads around the National Water Sports Centre country park, rowing lake and quiet country lanes (they lead to a dead end) just four miles from Nottingham City centre. And being the National Water Sports Centre means there is loads of parking, changing (with hot showers), a bar, and somewhere to watch from (there is a balcony by the bar for spectators).
Click Here. | | 5th Aug 2012 | 
Total Warrior – Lake District The Total Warrior 10 Mile Challenge is aimed at the super fit hardcore competitors! Set in the amazing Lake District this event is sure to be a tough challenge, check out their shorter 10km version too below. Be prepared for steep hills, mud, water and fire (and maybe even ice!) as they put you their specially designed gruelling course. Participants will start at 10am and leave in half hour waves. There is also the option of the weekend option to complete both the 10k and 10 mile. Visit Site | | 13th 0r 14th Oct 2012 | 
REAPER If you like open fields then we have some stretches with fantastic panoramic views for you to enjoy. If you're not afraid of the dark then we'll take you through tunnels on your hands and knees scrambling to reach the end. And on top of all that, we'll throw in quite a few man made obstacles to keep you well and truly occupied for the duration of the course! www.reaperevents.co.uk | | 13th Oct 2012 |  Mens Health Survival of the Fittest – Nottingham Part of the ‘Survival of the Fittest’ series, the Nottingham is becoming more popular each year with over 4,000 competitors. The race will be in the same location as previous years at the Victoria Embankment next to the River Trent at Trent Bridge, just outside the city centre. This is next to the river Trent and Nott Forest FC footy ground, both of which you will encounter and battle across! Highlights on the route include Nottingham Forest Football ground and the National Watersports centre at Holme Pierrepont. Along the way, our obstacles litter your path. In 2012, expect more obstacles and tougher obstacle zones as we continue to stretch the challenge of Survival. Visit Site | | 21st Oct 2012 | 
Mud Runner CLASSIC Mud Runner is over a variety of terrain and conditions from rolling grassland (well a little bit anyway) to mud, wet mud and sticky mud. The course includes hills, waterfilled pits, muddy banks and did we mention mud. You will get very wet ! The course will be marked and we will let you know the halfway point, other than that it's 7ish miles in length and brilliant fun.
Eastnor Castle, Herefordshire
Event Website | | 28th Oct 2012 | Steeplechase
Test your fitness with this year’s series of Mucky Races. Both physically and mentally demanding, this obstacle course tests every muscle in your body! The route combines jumping, scrambling and hurdling over and under 30 different horse jumps that is guaranteed to test your endurance. Set in 160 acres of grassland, the course also includes a series of water obstacles, 150 meter Freezing River wade and a few surprises from the organisers. www.muckyraces.co.uk | | 18th Nov 2012 |
Spartan Race Beast – London Spartan Race describe this as a 10-12 mile Obstacle Race from Hell. The Spartan Beast is longer than the 5km Spartan Sprint, and the fastest time is around 3 hours. Think water, fire, a ton of obstacles and pain! Brands Hatch Rd, Fawkham, Kent DA3 8NQ Visit Site | |
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