Chester Marathon Chester, United Kingdom   Oct 5, 2025

The Chester Marathon is the multi-award winning and UK’s only international marathon from the historic Roman/Medieval international destination City of Chester. The fast and largely flat spectacular city and rural race route combined with enthusiastic support and regular drinks/nutrition stations helped a record 70% of our runners achieve personal best times.

The MBNA Chester Metric Marathon is now a popular fixture in the race calendar, giving you the only opportunity in the UK to run over this distance. This is a 26.6km race, which is the ideal stepping stone from a half marathon to a full marathon.

The MBNA Chester Metric Marathon is one of the events in the Chester Triple series – run three for a Chester Triple medal!

The route is on closed roads and you will run past all Chester’s iconic landmarks (Roman Walls, Cathedral, Medieval Rows,  Eastgate Clock, Amphitheatre) before heading out to the stunning Cheshire countryside and villages. After joining the marathon runners at Churton you begin the return journey, coming into Chester alongside the River Dee for an unforgettable finish on Castle Drive. The support in the villages and communities along the course is one of the many highlights of the race.

As runners ourselves, we are passionate about delivering what for us, would be the perfect race; a premier quality, competitively priced race which caters for the needs of runners of all abilities.