The Liverpool Half Marathon course has evolved dramatically with the start and finish moving to the Pier Head area for the first time in 2013. As many of you may know the Liverpool Half Marathon is the longest established road race in the city and a new race distance of 10 miles was introduced to encourage 10K runners and perhaps some less experienced runners to try an intermediate distance on the way to a half marathon. It has proved more than popular with both previous years being sold out.
The half marathon is predominantly flat with a short, sharp incline just after the 1 mile point at Upper Parliament Street and a run along Princes Road, Devonshire Road, Belvidere Road and then a right turn off Ullet Road toward Sefton Park. where runners enjoy the natural beauty of Sefton Park taking in both the external roads and internal park pathways.
A section along Croxteth Drive passing the cricket club and allotments was re-introduced in 2013 to ensure the accuracy of the course and with the event being UKA Licensed an accurate 13.1 mile is guaranteed.
At the bottom of Sefton Park runners will pass through a main road underpass to access Otterspool Park and then Otterspool Promenade as they head back toward the city centre at around 9 miles.
The promenade section takes in the Liverpool Marina along the way with runners following a four mile stretch back to the finish line, passing the Liverpool Arena at just after 12 miles. In the last mile runners pass the rear of the Albert Dock, behind the Tate Liverpool and cross the dock bridge just by the Liverpool Museum at 13 miles.
There are four water stations along the course at approximately 3, 6, 9 and 12 miles as well as the finish and toilets are located at Park Road (about half a mile), the six mile point on Mossley Hill Drive and in between Otterspool Park and Otterspool Promenade.
The event team has many happy memories of the original Liverpool International Half Marathon which then went on to merge with the old Liverpool City Council 10K event (L1310K!), then two years under the stewardship of the London Marathon and then the big change in 2007 to bring the event back into the city centre.
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Good race in a lovely city!
I´ve never been to Liverpool before and was surprised how beautiful this city is! Absolutely worth a weekend trip to run a half marathon there. The race was the last … MORE
I´ve never been to Liverpool before and was surprised how beautiful this city is! Absolutely worth a weekend trip to run a half marathon there. The race was the last chance to run this spring as all other races in Europe have been cancelled due to Corona virus. Online registration was possible until Thursday 12pm. British runners get their numbers via mail, overseas runners collect their numbers easily before the race – all well organized. The course is nice and mostly flat. There is just one long and quite steep incline exactly after 1 mile for about 0.6 miles. The rest is flat and takes runners from the waterfront (really amazing) through the city to a huge park and then for the last 4 miles all along the coast. Unfortunately the weather was quite stormy and we had to struggle with heave head winds at the coast. The finish is at the waterfront where the race started. I absolutely loved the atmosphere at the finish zone and appreciated that everything was so easy. Runners put the bags into busses where they picked it up again (not good for valuables as the busses are open for anybody. All runners got a nice medal as well as a Finisher Shirt at the finish line. 3500 runners were registered but due to Corona only 2500 runners started and finished the race.