The highlight of Du Motion – Runners’ Days Dubrovnik is the Half Marathon race. Start and finish are on Stradun, Dubrovnik’s most famous and longest street, after which course continues outside the Old Town all the way to the Rijeka Dubrovačka. Dubrovnik Half Marathon is the race with a five-star …
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The highlight of Du Motion – Runners’ Days Dubrovnik is the Half Marathon race. Start and finish are on Stradun, Dubrovnik’s most famous and longest street, after which course continues outside the Old Town all the way to the Rijeka Dubrovačka.
Dubrovnik Half Marathon is the race with a five-star endorsement by European Athletics.
The Walls of Dubrovnik have been considered to be amongst the greatest fortification systems of the Middle Ages. The walls run an uninterrupted course of approximately 1,940 metres in length, encircling most of the Old City and reach a maximum height of about 25 metres.
Once a year they are the track field to a very tricky 2.5K race. Upstairs, downstairs, slippery ancient stone, magnificent view… all of it makes this race unforgettable as well as dangerous. The number of runners is limited at 100.
The 5K runs from Stradun – the Old Town’s main street, around the Walls of Dubrovnik, all the way to the Gruž harbour, through Boninovo and down to the finish on Stradun, lies one of the most beautiful race tracks. The 5K is an open race and a track to be enjoyed!
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Fantastic Runner´s Weekend!
Dubrovnik Runner´s Weekend is a perfectly organized and super sympathetic event in one of the most beautiful cities in the world. The weekend starts with the 2,5km Run The Wall … MORE
Dubrovnik Runner´s Weekend is a perfectly organized and super sympathetic event in one of the most beautiful cities in the world. The weekend starts with the 2,5km Run The Wall event. 100 participants start one after the other and run on the ancient city walls of Dubrovnik which is really fun. The course offers spectacular views from the walls which have steep 1080 steps! On Sunday it´s race day for the half marathon runners. Start and finish is at famous Stradum street which might be the most beautiful street in the world. The course is quite tough as it has a steep elevation at the beginning and at the end, but it´s also a beautiful course along the water. Drinks were offered every 2 km which was good because of the warm weather. All runners got a huge medal (for both events) and also a T-Shirt and a runner´s pass for both events. The wall runners even got a VIP Runner´s pass and a beautiful and high quality backpack. The pass includes free entrance to many touristic attractions such as cable car, entrance to the city walls, ferry boat to beautiful Lokrum island and free entrance to all museums and public transport. The pass is valid for 5-6 days! The event is really amazing and I can absolutely recommend Dubrovnik Half Marathon!
A fantastic race in a beautiful city!
Du Motion Running Festival in Dubrovnik was held for the 4th time. It´s very well organized and offers a 2,5km fun race called Run The Wall on Saturday, a Kid´s … MORE
Du Motion Running Festival in Dubrovnik was held for the 4th time. It´s very well organized and offers a 2,5km fun race called Run The Wall on Saturday, a Kid´s Run, 5k and Half Marathon on Sunday. Of course I ran the Half Marathon but I also wanted to do the fun run on Saturday as it´s very unique to run the ancient City Wall of Dubrovnik which is normally packed with tourists. The registration fee of USD 100 seemed a bit expensive to me, but I have to admit, that it was definitely worth the money. I went to the small expo which is very close to the Entrance Gate of the old town. The expo is small, but nice. I got water and espresso for free and everything went smoothly. I picked up my packages and was very surprised to get a quite nice backpack, one T-Shirt each for both races (Ready To Run The Wall and Ready To Run 21k), Gels, Bars, Water, and VIP Runner passes which were good for free public transport, free boat-trip to the island of Lokrum, free entrance to all museums, free entrance to the city wall and reductions in many restaurants – wow that was more than worth the money as all that is very expensive in Dubrovnik. Coming to the races:
Run the Wall was really fun! 100 runners are allowed to run this unique race which starts in the beautiful Stradun – the most famous street in the old town of Dubrovnik. You run ca. 300 meters before you have to run up the stairs to enter the City Wall which is a round about 2km round course with many stairs to climb before you go down again and finish on Stradun again. Photos were taken along the course and you get them for free.
On Sunday the half marathon started at 9.30 am. Normally it´s warm in Dubrovnik at this time of the year, but this time it was even hot and sunny with almost no wind. Round about 1000 runners from all parts of the world took part in the race which also started at Stradun. The atmosphere is unique. The course takes runners from the old town through the east gate to run uphill and then downhill again to get to the harbor and then out of Dubrovnik all along the water up to km 11 where it´s time to run a U-turn back to Dubrovnik. It´s a very scenic course and water as well as energy drinks were provided very frequently. Bands were playing and the sun was burning. Almost at the end of the race the course gets really tough as there runners have to run quite steep uphill for about 1 km before the last km offers an easy downhill part before you enter the west gate to the old town again and finish on beautiful Stradun! Really one of the best races!