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AJ Bell Great Bristol Run

10k
Saver £34
FinalEntries £38
Half Marathon
Saver £44
FinalEntries £48
Start 9:30 am

The AJ Bell Great Bristol Run is back on 11 May 2025.

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This year’s event was a complete sell-out, so get in early to secure your place on the start line. Loved by Bristolians and beyond, the AJ Bell Great Bristol Run is known as the best in the South West – and for good reason. Each year, thousands of runners push their perseverance and passion to the limit and run Bristol’s super-scenic 10k and half marathon routes. If stunning views, inspiring history and graffiti murals are your thing, this running event is right up your street.

The AJ Bell Great Bristol Run is back on 11 May 2025. Sign up now and SAVE!

AJ Bell Great Bristol Run entries are open to runners aged 15+ (10k) and 17+ (Half marathon) on the day of the event. Saver offer available for a limited time. A booking fee (£2.50 per entry) is applied at checkout.

Christmas Entries Open Soon Sitewide

What Makes it Great?

Free Great Run Series Event Day Tracking App

Access Exclusive Runner-Only Discounts via Our Rewards Platform

Free Training Plans and Support up to Event Day

Get 10% Off When Your Refer A Friend

Run Past Some of the City’s Most Famous Landmarks Including Castle Park

Music and Entertainment to Keep You Motivated

Run number personalised with your name

GBRISR Saver

Event Timetable: 11 May 2025

Please note: provisional timetable is subject to change.

09:30
10k Waves Start
10:40
Half Marathon Waves Start
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Know what to expect – your Great Bristol Run route

If you’re lucky enough to know Bristol, then you’re likely to love it – after all, what’s not to love about a city so historic, cultured, and cool? If you’ve signed up for the AJ Bell Great Bristol Run 10k or half marathon, you’re about to see Bristol from… Read More.

A runner’s guide to tapering

The idea of tapering – decreasing your training load in the week or two leading up to a big running event – might sound counter-intuitive, but in this case less really is more. And just about every running authority out there stresses the importance of tapering as a vital part… Read More.

Where to go for a post-run Bristol after party

With its popular course with inspiring scenery and graffiti murals at every turn, there are plenty of reasons why the AJ Bell Great Bristol Run is loved by thousands of runners in Bristol and beyond. If you’re a first-timer, congratulations on signing up for the best in the South… Read More.

5 Great Tips for Great Run Fundraising

If you’re taking part in an AJ Bell Great Run Series event for charity this year, then you’re going to want to raise as much money as possible to support your cause. That’s why we’ve teamed up with our official online fundraising partner, Enthuse to share five quick… Read More.

How to hit your perfect half marathon pace

Great Run is proud to partner with Runna – your personalised running coach app. As the official training partner of the AJ Bell Great Run Series, Runna is supporting our runners with comprehensive, expert-approved training content. No matter your experience or ability level, Runna’s tips and hints can… Read More.

Top tips for pacing a 10k

Great Run is proud to partner with Runna – your personalised running coach app. As the official training partner of the AJ Bell Great Run Series, Runna is supporting our runners with comprehensive, expert-approved training content. No matter your experience or ability level, Runna’s tips and hints can… Read More.

Bristol Running Routes By Bristol Runners

The true beauty of running in a city as amazing as Bristol is that it gives you the best excuse possible to get outside your door and explore the surrounding areas. If you are getting fed up with plodding your same old route, we’ve teamed up with our on-the-ground running… Read More.

Choosing A Bristol Running Club

With Great Bristol Half Marathon approaching, could joining a running club help with your pace? Read More.

Supplements to Support your Running Journey

The Official Wellness Partner of AJ Bell Great Run Series, Solgar combines the best of science and nature to create the finest nutritional supplements using only the best, responsibly sourced raw ingredients. With a commitment to quality, health and wellbeing that goes beyond 75 years, each Solgar product… Read More.

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Please note: course may be subject to change.

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What You Get

We have made the decision to introduce optional finisher tees to our Great Run events. You can choose to forgo a finisher tee shirt at the point of entry, and in lieu of this we will make a donation to the National Trust Woodlands Appeal. Find out more here. We will donate a portion of the fulfilment costs for each runner who chooses this option to the fund and commit that this donation to be approx. £20,000. To view our full Environmental Strategy, please click here

Obviously you’ll have bragging rights for the forseeable, but you’ll also get:

The Medal

A shiny new medal, an exclusive finishers t-shirt plus a finisher’s bag filled with goodies.

The Photos

Official event day photos available to view and purchase straight after the event, so smile for the cameras!

The App

Event day tracking and results ready to view on the app shortly after you cross the finish line.

The Discounts

Access to exclusive runners only discounts and offers via the Great Run Rewards platform.
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Run for Charity

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Join our team of everyday heroes raising millions for charity. Choose your worthy cause from the list below.
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Sign up for a slot

Secure a place with your chosen charity by visiting their website and signing up. Your run makes such a difference.
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Start fundraising

Once you’ve secured your place, start fundraising by setting up a page with Enthuse – and watch the money roll in.
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Fundraising tips

We like to think we know a little about raising money for good causes – let us share our top tips with you.
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Great Bristol Run
Charities

British Heart Foundation is the official charity of the AJ Bell Great Run series this year and we could not be more proud.

When you run for BHF, you can help us achieve our vision of a world free from the fear of heart and circulatory diseases. You run for the people you love. You run to help us fund lifesaving research and support people affected by heart and circulatory diseases. You run to help keep families together for longer.

It’s because of you, BHF-funded research is possible. Together, we can make the impossible possible. Thank you.


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Join forces with the team that will get you to the finish line. We’re the only ones fighting over 200 cancer . Our life-saving work is funded entirely by the generosity of our supporters, so every step we make towards beating cancer relies on every pound, and every runner. One in two people now survive cancer. Together we’ve achieved so much, but we won’t stop until we’ve beaten it altogether. Join the team today and we will beat cancer.

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The Bobby Moore Fund was set up in memory legendary footballer Bobby Moore, who sadly died from bowel cancer aged just 51.To date the Bobby Moore Fund has raised over £20 million. The funds are spent on world class bowel cancer research carried out by leading scientists working across the UK. With your support, bowel cancer stands no chance. Let’s make Bobby proud and help beat it sooner. Join the Bobby Moore Fund team today.

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St Peter’s Hospice is the Bristol area’s only adult Hospice. We care for local patients with life-limiting illnesses and their family members. Our care is provided free of charge at the point of service, however, it costs over £20,000 a day to provide all the incredible services that we do, in people’s homes, at our Hospice in Brentry, and across the greater Bristol community. We rely on our retails shops, gifts in wills and local people to fundraise for us. Running for your Hospice is a great way to support! For more information, visit our website.

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We recognise that it takes more than medicine to meet the needs of cancer patients and their loved ones. For over 40 years we have provided people in Bristol with free practical, emotional and social support they need to improve their quality of life and to manage the fear and uncertainty that a cancer diagnosis may bring. People with cancer are feeling more isolated and afraid than ever before but with your help we can be there for them. By running and fundraising for us, you can ensure our services keep going. Together we can change life with cancer. For good.

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Other Charities

1625 Independent People
Action Tutoring
AidBox Community
AMEND
Big Yellow Foundation
BRACE Dementia Research
Brigstowe
Citizens Advice South Gloucestershire
Coeliac UK
Crisis (Wales)
Cure Leukaemia
Hft
Legs4Africa
Love Running
Missing Link
OTR Bristol
Pandas Foundation
PTSD UK
Ripples of Compassion
Ronald McDonald House Charities
Safe Families for Children
SafeLives
Spear Bristol
St Mary Redcliffe Primary School PTFA
Star Scheme
Step Together
Steps
Team Mikayla
The Oddballs Foundation
The Robins Foundation
Tree Aid
UK for UNHCR
Women’s Aid
Young Bristol

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