Running Races in Hertfordshire

Verus tracks 30 races across Hertfordshire at 5 different distances — 11 10Ks, 9 half marathons, 5 ultra marathons, 4 races at other distances and 1 5K. Few counties give you that much choice of what to actually run.

Racing here runs more or less year round — there is something on in 10 months of the twelve, with October the busiest. That makes Hertfordshire unusually easy to build a season around, because you are rarely more than a few weeks from a start line.

Terrain varies more than a single figure for Hertfordshire suggests. Of the 10 races here that publish an elevation figure, Hatfield 5 is the flattest at 39ft of climb and Chiltern Ridge Classic 50K the hilliest at 3,268ft — a difference large enough to change what a target time means.

Hertfordshire also has 18 parkruns running every Saturday, free to enter — the weekly habit that sits underneath the race calendar above rather than competing with it.

Every race links through to its own page with entry details, the course, elevation where the organiser publishes it, and a pace calculator. Spotted a race in Hertfordshire that's missing? Suggest it and we'll research and add it.