Northstowe Half Marathon 2022 and Fullscope 5k
We’re excited to announce Northstowe’s first-ever official half marathon! Following on from the success of the Northstowe Running Festival we’ve been working towards a spring event; a multi-terrain half marathon through Northstowe and the surrounding countryside and a chip-timed 5k run. The growing town of Northstowe comes with new routes and opportunities to watch beautiful new locations take shape and develop.
In addition to putting on great events, we want our activity to benefit our local community too. We’ve chosen to put our charity focus on children’s and young people’s mental health and wellbeing and have partnered with Fullscope – a consortium of local charities and specialist providers who deliver projects that directly benefit local young people in need. All profits from the Fullscope 5k will be donated directly to Fullscope’s partner charities and runners of the half marathon can choose to support this cause too, by running on behalf of one of the partner charities. We already know about the benefits of exercise and time outdoors for improving mental health so we’re really delighted to be able to support something so valuable to us all.
We’re striving to not only make this a great event but to keep working towards making it as sustainable and environmentally sound as possible. Little changes and consideration of all aspects of our event mean we’re constantly moving towards a better race for all of us.
Northstowe Half Marathon and the Fullscope 5k want to inspire you to look forward with optimism for the new challenges coming in 2022.