For many the New Year marks a fresh start, which means it’s a time to look at want you want to achieve over the next 12 months, make new habits or break those that aren’t serving you well. For those who want to make running a part of their daily life, it can be difficult
With Christmas around the corner, diaries will be full of office parties, family activities and social gatherings. Combined with a growing to-do list of presents to buy and food to prep it’s easy for your training to fall to the wayside. If you’re keen to keep up your fitness, but don’t know how to fit
Another fantastic event calendar is now over! 2024 was another great year for Run 4 Wales and the Extra Milers, with over 1300 volunteers and nearly 54,200 runners taking part in our events. As always, being December, it’s time for the annual Extra Miler Volunteer Recognition Awards. After each event we invite you, the Extra
Run 4 Wales has helped several projects with their environmental initiatives this year thanks to donations from its Climate Action Fund. A donation pot of £21,000 was split out in January between Size of Wales, Green Squirrel’s Railway Gardens Project and Canolfan Waunfawr. It has led to the recipients being given a helping hand in
The Run 4 Wales 10K series is back for 2025 and runners are being challenged to conquer the races and complete the set. Entries are now live for the events taking place in Newport, Porthcawl and Cardiff – with the chance to save if entering more than one event. First up is the ABP Newport
When it’s dark and cold it’s easy to want to stay inside and wrap up warm. However, the winter months are a great time to be clocking up your miles. With the shorter days it means you’ll likely be exercising in the dark, so it’s important you know how to stay safe. Run 4 Wales
Run 4 Wales (R4W) has announced that it is searching for a new title sponsor for the Cardiff Half Marathon, one of the UK’s largest mass participation events, for 2025 and beyond. The Cardiff Half has grown into one of Europe’s largest half marathons, attracting over 29,000 registrants across a weekend of athletic activity. Previous
General entries into the 2025 Cardiff Half Marathon have sold out in record speed, with all general entries filled within 12 hours of going on sale. Registration for next year’s event opened on Wednesday 9 October and all early bird and second release tickets were snapped up in just over an hour. Hours later, runners
Registration for the 2025 Cardiff Half Marathon is now open, with those keen to take part being encouraged to register as soon as possible, with the race due to sell out imminently. There is unprecedented demand for next year’s race, which returns on Sunday 5 October in 2025, and thousands of spaces have already been
Thousands of runners and spectators took to the streets of the Welsh capital for the 21st edition of the Principality Cardiff Half Marathon. It was the event’s biggest yet with more than 29,000 people signed up to take part across the junior races on Saturday and Sunday’s main event – including elites, fancy dress runners
