2022 June 2025 // Haywards Heath

The Sussex Running Festival

Celebrate running at Sussex RunFest 2025—a perfect blend of movement, learning, and connection.

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RunFest will be the perfect blend of movement, community, music, and fun.

What & When

Sussex RunFest 2025 is a community running and wellbeing festival. Whether you’re a seasoned runner or just getting started, there’s something here for you.

Move

Join guided runs for every level and running-focused strength and yoga workshops. Enjoy the chaos of the Rave Run and compete in the Beer Mile relay and RunFest Game Show.

Learn

Discover ways to prevent and treat injury and elevate your running performance. Hear from inspiring runners, as well as experts on physical and mental health and running form.

Connect

Soak up the post-run vibes and enjoy live music and DJ sets. Celebrate with our fantastic running community.

20–22 June 2025

Enjoy events on Friday evening, Saturday all day and evening, and Sunday morning and afternoon. The Hop Sun Taproom, RH16 4HW, is our hub venue: Google Maps.

Highlights

Guided runs

Join passionate and experienced run leaders on community runs. Enjoy a range of routes, distances and speeds.

Strength workshops

Take short strength and power classes designed specifically to help runners go further, faster, and with fewer injuries.

Run-focused yoga

Learn how to add mindful movement to your life—improving your flexibility, running form, warm-up routines, and injury prevention techniques.

Celebrate the Solstice

Welcome in the year’s longest day with special runs, yoga sessions, workshops, and community coffee chats.

Insights and inspiration

Hear from runners who have achieved amazing things and join sessions on achieving your goals and finding balance.

Rave Run

A run crossed with a party! Dance and sing along on a fun group run with a portable sound system.

Treasure Hunt

Crack the clues, reach the checkpoints, and try to get your team home first in this thrilling chase across town.

Beer Mile

Gather your team for this epic relay race. Drink, then run a quarter mile as fast as you can. Fastest team home wins!

Injury and fitness

Learn from physios, podiatrists, and other physical health experts about injury prevention and treatment—and get in-person advice and assessment.

Post-run vibes

Soak up the festival soundtrack with live music and DJ sets, and enjoy fantastic craft beer brewed on-site by Heathen Brewers.

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Enjoy fun, friendly group runs. Hear from experts and inspiring runners. Gain new perspectives. Learn how to build strength, speed, endurance, and overcome injury. Play fun run-related games. And spend the weekend with our awesome running community!

Join us!

A Sussex RunFest 2025 pass is your ticket to a weekend of wonderful run-related experiences. Early Bird tickets available until 30th April: use code 'EARLYBIRD'.

What’s included

Your ticket includes unlimited access to runs, classes, talks, and sessions! See the Line-up. Some activities will have capacity limits and those will use a simple booking system.

Tickets cover the key things we need, like first aid, live music, equipment, and insurance.

We will also be supporting charities and causes championed by our activity leaders.

Our partners

Get involved

Would you like help organise the event, lead a run or class, give a talk or be a marshal? Are you interested in sponsoring RunFest?

Get in touch! We'd love to talk about it, and tell you what support we can offer in return.

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