On Saturday 15th September, 1,500 kids aged between 5-15 years will compete in the RUNFEST Kids’ Mile & 500m races. Our little runners will be supported by GB Olympians and with the help of our partner NIKE, every child will be chip timed and receive the best NIKE tech T-shirt and cool medal with every race entry.
The Kids’ Mile race starts in Old Deer Park with live music cheering on our stars of the future.
This will be a great day for all the Kids’ and also a nice day out for the family!
Our partners Brentford FC, Lions Sports, Marathon Kids and team GB athletes will provide lots of free entertainment as well as fun activities to keep the kids occupied for the whole day. There will also be live bands to serenade them through their race, delicious food stands and of course the Beer Gardens for the adults!
ALSO if that wasn’t enough, this years event will be Peter Pan themed so there will be pirates out on the course cheering on all of our little runners, as well as lots of Peter Pan themed entertainment.
For ore information on the Runfest Kids’ Mile and to register, please visit: www.richmondrunningfestival.com/kidsmile/#body
Race entry costs £10
The aim is to organise a fun local event involving the whole family and the local community. You will see from our aims that we wish to include everything that is great about the Borough of Richmond and share this beautiful place with the world.
From the outset, the event has looked to incorporate all the wonderful examples we have witnessed from all corners of the running world. At RUNFEST we do not like to use the word ‘NO’ and look to incorporate as many peoples ideas and inspiration as possible. We started this event as a blank canvas and continue to add pencil thin structure and lots of colour to it as we go along.
We hope this is just the start of a wonderful journey for the RUNFEST team and hope to include many people from the running community. If you have any colour that you think will look good on the canvas and want to get involved then please get in touch and help us achieve something different!