2026 Coventry Half Marathon Statement

Official Statement

Firstly, we would like to congratulate everyone on today’s run, it was incredible to see the city streets filled with runners and to see so many charities being supported in the process.  

Whilst we don’t wish to take away from those achievements, we need to acknowledge that today’s Half marathon route was longer than 13.1 miles.  Like you, we are disappointed that this has happened and apologise unreservedly that this has occurred and we take full responsibility for the error.

Our initial investigation shows that the turning point was positioned incorrectly with it being 256m out, which has resulted in the route therefore being 512m long overall.

We have worked with our timing company to have all half marathon runners’ results updated to provide a 13.1mile finish time, this result is now available to view on our website via the link below.

As a way of apology all 2026 Half Marathon finishers will shortly receive a second email from Run For All with a unique link to a half price entry for the 2027 event on 11th April*.  Whilst we understand this doesn’t take away from the error made today, we hope you will join us next year to allow us to right today’s wrong.   

Again, we apologise for today’s experience, and we will be running a full internal investigation this week to ensure this doesn’t take place again at a future Run For All event.  

Thanks again for joining us in Coventry for such a wonderful event, and we hope you will join us next year.