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. Charity places now available for 2024.
Discover 13.1-mile races in Manchester, including the Great Manchester Run and Manchester Half Marathon. Sign up to our newsletter for event updates.
Sign up for just £25 with a Team Stroke charity place (saving £26!) and get a running vest to wear with pride too! Make the miles count for stroke survivors.
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. Charity places now available for 2023.
Manchester's original running event famous for its city centre route, buzzing atmosphere, iconic music, entertainment zones, football stadia and great PB potential. Charity places available for 2024.
Join for Run Heaton 5k, 10k & Half Marathon in 2023. This large park, just north of Manchester and home to a Grade 1 listed neoclassical 18th-century house, is the perfect setting for a fun day out.
Radcliffe AC Welcomes the ever so popular Thirteen Arches Half Marathon
Join for Run Heaton 5k, 10k & Half Marathon in 2023. This large park, just north of Manchester and home to a Grade 1 listed neoclassical 18th-century house, is the perfect setting for a fun day out.
MoRunning brings everyday people together with our focus being to inspire you, your family, your kids and your friends to have the best time running!
Join RunThrough Events for Run Heaton 5k, 10k, Half Marathon & Kids Race in 2023.
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A top drawer Inner City endurance swim event that offers distances from 1.5-15km. Go big or go home!
Join the Swimrun revolution! Enter Manchester's very own sprint event.
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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?
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. Charity places now available for 2023.
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. Charity places now available for 2024.
The greatest running events in Manchester! Celebrate everything that’s incredible about the city on a tour with runs for all abilities and an unbeatable atmosphere. Charity places available for 2024.
Come and join for the Chase The Sun 5k, 10k & 10 mile in Heaton Park in 2023.
Join the Swimrun revolution! Enter Manchester's very own sprint event.
A top drawer Inner City endurance swim event that offers distances from 1.5-15km. Go big or go home!
The Hopwood Trot is a multi-terrain course of approximately Five and a half miles (8.8K) on the paths and tracks and country lanes surrounding historic Hopwood Hall...
Manchester's only 12 hour track event with the freedom for all participants to run as many loops of the track as they can.
Join for the next Chase The Sun 5k, 10k & 10 mile at Heaton Park in 2023!
Radcliffe AC - Multi Terrain 5k Race part of the CLGP series
Join for Run Heaton 5k, 10k & Half Marathon in 2023. This large park, just north of Manchester and home to a Grade 1 listed neoclassical 18th-century house, is the perfect setting for a fun day out.
Swinton Running Club's annual trail race.
Radcliffe AC Welcomes the ever so popular Thirteen Arches Half Marathon
Join for Run Heaton 5k, 10k & Half Marathon in 2023. This large park, just north of Manchester and home to a Grade 1 listed neoclassical 18th-century house, is the perfect setting for a fun day out.
MoRunning brings everyday people together with our focus being to inspire you, your family, your kids and your friends to have the best time running!
Join RunThrough Events for Run Heaton 5k, 10k, Half Marathon & Kids Race in 2023.
