Cardiff Half 100 Club get first look at 2024 finishers tee
Members of the Principality Building Society Cardiff Half Marathon 100 Club came together to get a first look at this year’s finishers t-shirt.
With just four weeks to go until the race on Sunday 6 October a training event was held for the group to meet one another and get their questions in to race director, and double Olympic marathoner, Steve Brace.
During the evening, the much-anticipated finishers t-shirt was revealed, highlighting this year’s race theme – ‘A Race For Everyone’.
While thousands get behind the Cardiff Half each year, event organisers Run 4 Wales wanted to celebrate and shine a spotlight on what makes the Welsh capital one of the most welcoming places in the UK – the diversity of its people.
To help ensure the event is its most inclusive yet the team have been engaging with people from a diverse range of demographics – across different ages, genders, religious beliefs, ethnicities, sexualities and disabilities – to get involved as runners, volunteers and spectators, ensuring there is something for everyone on the day.
As part of this, Run 4 Wales once again launched its 100 Club initiative, donating 100 spaces into the race.
The scheme aims to diversify the sport and break down barriers some may experience in mass-participation events. Everyone who gets involved in the 100 Club is united by one common goal – to reach the finish line and overcome hurdles that not every runner has to face.
This year’s participants have been recruited through community groups such as Pride Cymru, Oasis, the Mwslima Running Club and Cardiff Muslim Runners, the Running Social, MileHighClwb, Play It Again Sport, Slimming World, as well as through self-nominations.
Run 4 Wales Race Director, Steve Brace, said: “It was fantastic to see so many of our 100 Club, and Cardiff Half supporters, come to our training event to engage with each other and show an interest in running.
“Run 4 Wales believes in the power of mass participation and its ability to improve the mental and physical health of the nation by inspiring people to take up running and make positive life changes, and we hope that our 100 Club runners will continue to inspire others.
“We were incredibly excited to also reveal this year’s Cardiff Half finishers t-shirt which not only celebrates the diversity of the event, but everything that makes Wales, and Cardiff, great.
“We hope this year’s finishers will love it as much as we do.”
