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Oxford Half Marathon

Oxford, Oxfordshire

Oxford United Football Club, Grenoble Rd, Oxford OX4 4XP

Sun 15th October 2023

Starting at 08:30

3 charity places

£10.00 - £25.00

Organiser's Description

A fantastic half marathon through the City of Oxford and surrounding countryside on a traffic-free course.

A superb route taking in the iconic Oxfordshire scenery, the wonderful landmarks and the 'dreaming spires' of this beautiful City, against the the spectacular backdrop of the River Thames with live entertainment at every mile.

Charity places

Alzheimer's Society

Join Team Alzheimer's Society

Oxford Half Marathon

Entry £10.00

Fundraise £250.00

Info

Alzheimer's Society

Join Team Alzheimer's Society

By 2025, there will be 1 million people in the UK living with dementia.

At Alzheimer’s Society we’re working towards a world where dementia no longer devastates lives. We do this by giving help to those living with dementia today, and providing hope for the future by campaigning to make dementia the priority it should be and funding ground-breaking research.

Choose your challenge and turn your training runs into life-changing research. Your race day nerves into ground-breaking studies. Your finish line thrill into hope for future generations.

Your fundraising will help us provide support to people living with dementia. Join the team and we’ll be there to support you through every step of your journey, from training advice to fundraising tips.

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Shelter

Fight housing injustice

Oxford Half Marathon

Entry £25.00

Fundraise £250.00

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Shelter

Fight housing injustice

We believe home is everything. And the 17.5 million people who are facing poor housing or homelessness urgently need our help. The funds you raise will go where they're most needed: helping support those facing the housing emergency, highlighting poor renting conditions and raising awareness of the many reasons people become homeless.

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Missing People

Join #TeamMissingPeople

Half Marathon

Entry £10.00

Fundraise £300.00

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Missing People

Join #TeamMissingPeople

Missing People is a national charity that exists to ease the heartache experienced by those missing someone, and to help people who are away from home, find their way back to safety.

We provide free, confidential support, help and advice by phone, email, text and live chat. We also coordinate a UK wide network of people, businesses and media to join the search for the estimated 170,000 people who go missing each year.

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Course Details

The Oxford Half Marathon starts on Broad Street and finishes on Parks Road. The festival village is located on Oxford University Parks.

Details of the official starting time will be shared closer to the time, but runners will have 3 hours and 30 minutes to finish the race.

bag drop

There will be a space to store your bag whilst you run. You will receive your race number in the post if you purchased race pack postage, which will also contain your bag label and bag collection tab. If you have opted to collect your pack then you will receive this on Saturday (attached to your bib).

Please visit the bay that corresponds to your race number. Please note that any bag dropped at the bag drop must be a maximum of 45cm x 45cm x 25cm (normal backpack size). Larger bags, holdalls and any size suitcase, will not be accepted. Random bag checks will also be in operation on event day by our security team – please follow all instructions if asked by one of our team.

The Race Day Guide will be available in the week leading up to the event, it will also be emailed to all runners prior to the event.

changing facilties

We usually have a limited amount of changing space available for runners to use at the Oxford Half, which will be located close to the bag drop area.

The Race Day Guide will be available the week prior to the event and emailed to all runners!

Reviews

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Samuel

·7 months ago

Fantastic event and very well organised. Big shoutout to Find a Race. Couldn’t recommend them more for anyone looking to get booked on to their first half marathon.
Vladimir

·3 years ago

Reliably good, scenic and fast Half. The weather this time was something completely special and unique, so let's take it away from the equation. Generally, I’m happy how the race was organised. With about 7000 participants running, Virgin Sports did a good job keeping the race safe and providing water & electrolytes on the course. The course was quite flat, maybe a bit too much packed into the same streets, with dual-way running. I think my only concern is, since the race village was in the park and it was raining cats & dogs, the entire territory around tents was wet and muddy. Even with gravel covered pathways, it was barely possible to get in or out without collecting the mud on your feet. Thinking out loud, some recycled plastic/rubber mats could to the job, if properly placed on the pathways… But I get it, maybe it was hard to predict & plan such things in advance. Same as with the transportation: when you put thousands of people into a small historical city, you'd obviously expect some heavy traffic & delays.
Kate

·3 years ago

Great run, course could be better?. First off, the weather REALLY affected the run this year. It was terribly wet, and had been wet for a while before the run, so at some points water lay ankle-deep across the road. I would have liked to have seen the grass protected at University Parks, with those underfoot grids you see used. There was a wait at the start if you were right at the back, but with 12k runners, that’s acceptable. The first few miles wind around the town but then you have the first of two out-and-back drags, up to Summertown and back. Then there’s another long drag out to the village of Marston, which made for quite boring running. Luckily, after about mile 9/10 you head back into town to finish up. The t shirt and medal were great, decent goody bag too, and despite the awful wet, people were so upbeat, both runners and supporters. This race would score five stars if only the course was better! Those out and back drags are there to make up distance and they’re not fun to run. I know councils really affect road closures and in oxford of course you have colleges too but PLEASE, could this race change to have a more imaginative and central route? Even just knocking out the Marston drag would be great.

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Doing

Abigail Putman

Hannah Bashir

Joe Wait

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Alan Davies

Alastair Clark

Ben Williams

Steve Nicholson

Gary Keaveney

Sarah Grace

Isabel Searle

Katya Waters

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Sara Carbery

Toby Britton

Matt Haines

Location

Oxford, Oxfordshire

15 Oct 2023

£10.00 - £25.00

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