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If you’re a regular race calendar watcher, you’ll no doubt recognise some of these beauties cycling round again for spring, summer and autumn 2021. This time around, some of them will be… In. Real. Life (fingers crossed, anyway), and race organisers are, of course, offering refund conditions if events need to cancelled. If, however, you’re not quite there yet, when it comes to thinking about real-life racing, no matter, there are plenty of virtual challenges to choose from, too. Here’s our pick of the crop this month…

TEAM AND ALL LEVELS

TTPRUNEVERYONECAMBRIDGE half [VIRTUAL]

If you’re missing colleagues and friends, this race might help a little. Sign up your organisation or business, choose your charity, invite people to join your team – and get training. You have the whole of March to complete the challenge. You can run every day or just one day: every run counts. You get a t-shirt and medal just for competing and if you try really hard, your team might top the leaderboards; ranks include fastest team half, most team members and biggest fundraisers.

£25, March, cambridgehalfmarathon.com/virtual

ESSEXCROSSCOUNTRY 10KSERIES[REAL]

Part of the Essex Cross Country series of 10K races. Each of the five races takes part in an Essex country park on the second Saturday of each month from May to September. A great chance to get away from the road and experience summer trail running.