Thanks to all those of you who joined us for our 2019 half marathon training runs and seminars and thanks also to Chester FC for hosting us.

Our free monthly "pop along and join in" training runs will start in January 2020 to prepare for the Aldi Chester 10K in March, the Essar Chester Half Marathon in May and the MBNA Chester Marathon & Metric Marathon in October.

Our 2020 dates will be announced towards the end of this year.

For the training runs, we meet at 9am at Chester FC's Deva Stadium, CH1 4LT and run along the traffic free river path. 

If you've not joined us at one of our training runs before, don't be shy, everyone is welcome.  We're a friendly bunch and will have a number of pace runner led groups, running at various paces from 7:30 minutes to 11 minutes per mile.  Many of the groups are led by the Pace Runners from our events. 

Please run with something showing your name, an emergency number and any medical conditions we may need to be aware of. If you've got a  parkrun barcode that would be ideal, but anything we are able to read will be fine. 

These runs give you the opportunity to run with others and chat about their training, gaining valuable advice, tips and encouragement.

Due to the out and back nature of the route we are unable to allow dogs at the training runs.

"From the feedback we get these training runs are providing a valuable opportunity for many people who normally train on their own to mix with others on the same journey to the Chester 10K,  Half Marathon, the MBNA Chester Marathon and Metric Marathon" reflected Race Organiser Chris Hulse.

Our suggested training plans for the 2019 half marathon were:
Novice
Improver
Advanced