It has taken fewer than 24 hours for 5,000 runners to secure their place at the 2018 Cardiff University/Cardiff Half Marathon. The race for places is underway following on from the success of the largest mass-participation running event in the history of Wales. More than 20,000 runners came together to take part in a record
What a race, what a day, but who was the biggest hero? You couldn’t pick the best performance of the day in the Cardiff University/Cardiff Half Marathon because there were so many candidates. Any one of the 19,641 starters could have put their hand up for the prize, but you had to take your hat
Records were sent tumbling as Saturday’s Cardiff University Festival of Running kicked off Wales’ largest-ever mass-participation weekend. A pair of new world record holders were crowned as around 2,500 runners of all ages and abilities got a taste for the Cardiff Half Marathon experience. South Wales firefighters Kevin Summerhayes and Ellie Hathaway got their names
More than 150 years after Dr Thomas Barnardo began helping Britain’s most vulnerable children his spirit will live on this weekend at Cardiff University Cardiff Half Marathon. Because Sarah Crawley, current Welsh director of Barnardo’s, the charity he founded, will be dressed in top hat and tails just like those worn by the great man
Dewi Griffiths aims to show the crowds in Cardiff just how much he has grown up this weekend since he first ran the Cardiff University/Cardiff Half Marathon in 2012. The Swansea Harrier came home in eighth place that year, winning the Welsh title and taking his personal best down to 65 mins, 47 sec –
The curtain has been raised on the 2017 Cardiff University/Cardiff Half Marathon as the Welsh capital gears up for the biggest running event in the nation’s history. Cardiff University Deputy Vice Chancellor, Professor Karen Holford was joined by Great Britain long distance runner Dewi Griffiths, Wales rugby legend Gareth Thomas, former marathon World Record holder
The 2017 Cardiff University/Cardiff Half Marathon finishers’ t-shirt will celebrate a record breaking year at Wales’ largest mass-participation event. The brand new design features last year’s elite race champions Shadrack Kimining and Viola Jepchumba, who sent race-records tumbling 12 months ago. The Kenyan duo are back aiming to go even faster this year, but they
Cardiff University experts who are carrying out vital research into knee osteoarthritis and back pain will be on hand to explain their work at the Cardiff Half Marathon. Researchers from the University-based Arthritis Research UK Biomechanics and Bioengineering Centre are investigating how best to diagnose, treat and rehabilitate such conditions. Members of the research team
A record number of runners will flood the streets of the Welsh capital for the 15th instalment of the Cardiff University/Cardiff Half Marathon this weekend on Sunday October 1st. Some of the world’s finest long-distance athletes will rub shoulders with 25,000 amateur runners and charity fundraisers on the flat, fast and iconic 13.1 mile route.
The countdown is on with only a week to go until the Cardiff University Festival of Running kicks-off a record breaking weekend in the Welsh capital. If you are one of the 25,000 runners set to take-part in the Cardiff University/Cardiff Half Marathon on Sunday 1 October, then why not get your loved ones involved
