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The Vitality Big Half

3.3 · 5 reviews

Tower Bridge, London

Tower of London, London, UK

Sun 1st March 2020

1 race

Free

Organiser's Description

The Vitality Big Half – London’s most exciting half-marathon – returns for 2020. The event, which starts close to the Tower of London and finishes at the Cutty Sark, was created to celebrate London’s diversity and inspire more people to get active and take up running. More than 11,000 runners of all ages, backgrounds and abilities took part in 2018, and were led from the front by Sir Mo Farah.

The 2019 Vitality Big Half will once again feature: The Little Half, a family-friendly run for all ages and abilities; The Big Relay, which sees teams of four from the host boroughs of Tower Hamlets, Southwark, Lewisham and Greenwich, run The Vitality Big Half in four legs.

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The Vitality Big Festival

The 2020 Vitality Big Festival will showcase the very best of London's local communities.

With music on The Vitality Big Stage, lots of great food options, health and wellbeing classes and lots of opportunities to keep active throughout the day, the festival is the perfect place to celebrate with friends and family after your run.

Vitality Little Half

The Little Half offers the perfect opportunity to take part in your first official timed running event.

Starting in Southwark Park at 12:45, the route follows the last 2.4 miles of The Vitality Big Half to the stunning finish by the Cutty Sark in Greenwich.

The event is a great chance to take part with friends and family – entry is FREE to runners under 18 years old and just £5 for all other participants.

The Vitality Big Mile

The Vitality Big Mile is a free, fun, family-friendly mass-participation event taking place around Greenwich Park. This is the perfect event for first-time runners or walkers, families with children of all ages and anyone looking to get more healthy and active.

The New Balance Big Relay

The New Balance Big Relay enables a team of four runners to take on The Vitality Big Half, running 13.1 miles through Tower Hamlets, Southwark, Lewisham and Greenwich.

Each participant runs one leg of The Vitality Big Half course from Tower Bridge to Cutty Sark over distances ranging from one mile to 4.7 miles.

The first runner starts with all of The Vitality Big Half runners, with changeover points at the locations listed below:

Leg One: The Start, Tower Bridge to Canary Wharf (3.5 miles) Changeover One: Canary Wharf

Leg Two: Canary Wharf to Narrow Street (1.2 miles) Changeover Two: Narrow Street

Leg Three: Narrow Street to Bermondsey (3.8 miles) Changeover Three: Bermondsey

Leg Four: Bermondsey to The Finish, Cutty Sark (4.6 miles)

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3.3

5 reviews

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Paula

·4 years ago

Big Half 2020. I really like this race although I shouldn't because it does involve running across some cobbles. I like the route, lots to look at, great crowd support and running over Tower Bridge is something special. Great organisation. Yes, there was an issue this year causing delay to baggage collection but it hasn't happened in the previous 2 races and unlikely to happen again. Plus, the medal is fabulous. Many don't like it but it stands out on your medal rack to make you proud of the achievement!
Lauren

·4 years ago

Great route - shame about the queues. Loved the route for this half. The atmosphere was amazing throughout and I enjoyed the run thoroughly. However, the bag dropped closed an hour before the start time. This meant standing in the freezing cold pen for an hour before the race. Queueing was a common theme for this race. As soon as the race finished I queued to another 45 minutes to simple cross the road to try and retrieve my bag. It was compulsory to go to the event village, even if you didn’t want to - this added even more tine if you were trying to get home quickly. Then getting to the station and queuing to cross the raps and get in took another hour or more. Overall the race experience was great but ruined by the lack of organisation after
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Zawar

·4 years ago

Forever In My Heart. This is the race event that made me fall in love with Long Distance Running; the atmosphere, the crowd, the love and support, the lovely sights of Canary Wharf, Tower Bridge, and the finish at Curry Sark; I ran this as my first ever Half Marathon last year, and now it will be my 4th Half Marathon overall, and my 2nd for this particular event. Good luck for anyone joining me this year (i.e. this time next week!) 😄👍
NJ
Nolan

·4 years ago

Great run through central London.. I did this race this year and will be doing it again next year. The race is pretty flat so ideal for a PB. It was a wet and windy day, which meant the festival afterwards was cancelled. But that didn't take away from my enjoyment of the race. My highlights were running thorough the towers of Canary Wharf and running over Tower Bridge. One down side is that the price has gone up to £46.
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Cheryle

·5 years ago

Wont do it again. This was my first half marathon and it definately let me down. Although the weather had a major impact I felt things were unorganized and there was absolutely no after care. Just get your bag and get out. The meet and greet area was closed due to weather and there were no directions as to where to find my partner so it took me 45 minutes to find him. There was no place to change after the race which was really poor. No warm up or build up besides some music which was too far away from pen G to even hear. For a run that was advertised as community I felt as though those of us starting last were very much an afterthought. I run intervals so walk/run. In the first mile the marshals were heard making flippant comments about "people not being able to even run a mile". How inappropriate and disheartening for those who run in the "Jeffing" style. Im very disappointed.

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Location

Tower Bridge, London

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