The UK's second largest city, Manchester is heaving with outdoor events, clubs and adventures - you'd expect nothing less from somewhere with active people and surrounded by rolling moors. Beyond the classic Great Manchester Run, there are a wide range of events to choose from - use this page to explore them all.
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Experience the UK’s friendliest and flattest major marathon with huge crowd support on a route with PB potential plus chunky medals and relay options.
Discover 13.1-mile races in Manchester, including the Great Manchester Run and Manchester Half Marathon. Sign up to our newsletter for event updates.
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The city’s original and best-loved running event! It's a party from start to finish with a high-energy soundtrack and live music. Over 99% of Manchester runners say they’d recommend it to a friend.
Round off the season with a flat and fast half on fully closed roads with some of the best crowd support around and receive your chunky medal near Old Trafford.
We put you on a bus... We blindfold you... We take you to an unknown location... You have no tech, no map, no watch, no idea where you are... Will you make it back to HQ or be lost for ever?
Radcliffe AC welcomes the ever popular Thirteen Arches Half Marathon
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Enjoy a big Madchester welcome with swims from 5 miles to 500m! Super friendly, big and bold!
A top drawer Inner City endurance swim event that offers distances from 1.5-25km. Go big or go home!
Do something completely different! Swim in the dark, lit up by night sticks Shine like the star you are!
Join the Swimrun revolution! Enter Manchester's very own sprint event.
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MS Walk Manchester is back for another successful year and will start and finish in the beating heart of Manchester city centre. Sign up today and walk, roll or stroll to stop MS.
Make some noise for the biggest kids’ run in the North West! It’s an incredible event, all part of the iconic Great Manchester Run weekend of running where juniors have their own day on centre stage.
The city’s original and best-loved running event! With a 10K or a half marathon distance to choose from, over 99% of Manchester runners say they’d recommend it to a friend.
Round off the season with a flat and fast half on fully closed roads with some of the best crowd support around and receive your chunky medal near Old Trafford.
Experience the UK’s friendliest and flattest major marathon with huge crowd support on a route with PB potential plus chunky medals and relay options.
Running and cake? What could be better? It’s a Piece of Cake 10K returns for 2024, and we can’t wait to see you all again!
A Proper Northern Knees Up
A fun relay event for teams of four of all abilities.
Enjoy a big Madchester welcome with swims from 5 miles to 500m! Super friendly, big and bold!
The Ultra Loop Track Edition offers a running challenge of either 6 or 12 hours where you will run loops of the 400m track as many times as you can.
The Sale 4 x 5k Sizzlers are a series of very popular runs on a super-fast course within Wythenshawe Park, South Manchester for all abilities.
The Sale 4 x 5k Sizzlers are a series of very popular runs on a super-fast course within Wythenshawe Park, South Manchester for all abilities.
A top drawer Inner City endurance swim event that offers distances from 1.5-25km. Go big or go home!
Tough Mudder is bringing the signature obstacles to the heart of Manchester and there will be more than enough water obstacle-packed action for the whole gang. Are you ready?
This evening race on the lovely trails in Philips Park is back by popular demand.
The Sale 4 x 5k Sizzlers are a series of very popular runs on a super-fast course within Wythenshawe Park, South Manchester for all abilities.
The Sale 4 x 5k Sizzlers are a series of very popular runs on a super-fast course within Wythenshawe Park, South Manchester for all abilities.
The Hopwood Trot is a multi-terrain course of approximately five and a half miles (8.8km) on the paths and tracks and country lanes surrounding historic Hopwood Hall
Join the Swimrun revolution! Enter Manchester's very own sprint event.
Do something completely different! Swim in the dark, lit up by night sticks Shine like the star you are!
We put you on a bus... We blindfold you... We take you to an unknown location... You have no tech, no map, no watch, no idea where you are... Will you make it back to HQ or be lost for ever?
Radcliffe AC welcomes the ever popular Thirteen Arches Half Marathon