The Hendy Tunbridge Wells Half Marathon

Next Race: 21/02/2027

Fusion Sports Centre, St John's Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN4 9TX

Overall Rating

4.6/ 5

186 reviews
Would you recommend it to others? Yes
How did you rate the scenery? 5/5
How did you rate the atmosphere? 5/5
How did you rate the organisation? 5/5
Do you think this was friendly to beginners? Yes

Luke Myers

Nice half marathon shortage of medals

Not enough medals for everyone but nice event Shame really

Reviewed using Eventrac, Feb 2026
Stephen Sedgwick

Fabulous & Challenging

Great race, brilliantly organised by the TWH. Spring Hill a real at Mile 8 but thoroughly enjoyable all round.

Reviewed using Eventrac, Feb 2026
Arun Kumar Rajagopalan

Well organised event

A challenging course but a beautiful scenic route. Friendly Marshals all along the route and segregated running route from traffic.

Reviewed using Eventrac, Feb 2026
Claire de Jager

Absolutely Fantastic

Fantastic course. Outstanding organisation. Brilliant atmosphere.
Loved the addition of the toilets on route and well done and thank you to all the volunteers. See you next year! :-)

Reviewed using Eventrac, Feb 2026
Richard Pearce

A difficult course through lovely scenery with great organisation and plenty of marshals on the course

Reviewed using Eventrac, Feb 2026
Marcus Rutter

Excellent, well organised event.

Brilliant event with great staff/marshals who were encouraging and helpful throughout the whole day. Tough course with a long hill at one point but excellent scenery. Water stations and facilities all through the course. The crowds coming out to cheer was a great bonus as well. Keen to do it again next year!

Reviewed using Eventrac, Feb 2026
Dan Stinton

Nice Run around the Kent country side.

Pre race catering facilities could be better. A proper coffee stand would be appreciated...

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Dee Strang

Lovely atmosphere

Well organised but to be truly inclusive and beginner friendly you need to have medals at the end for all finishers. It would be really disappointing to finish your first HM and not receive one.

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Thomas Cornish

First Half

Great organisation and atmosphere, would recommend to anyone and keen to do it again myself :)

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Tim Hill

Really well organised event

Loads of friendly marshalls, an example to other events of how to have enough portaloos with paper(!), great scenery.
This is a hilly course, which is fine and well advertised, but worth being aware it's difficult to pace like a flatter race.
Slight issue with traffic delayed the start a few minutes, not a big issue but ideally avoided.

Reviewed using Eventrac, Feb 2026
Andrew Ritchie

Fantastic race, with a good balance of easy and challenging

Excellent organisation great logistics (HQ, toilets etc)

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Richard Attridge

No medal

Totally deflated.... to be told 'we've run out of medals' at the finish.
13.2miles for a banana!!!!!
I was race #42.....would be good to get the medal i paid for.

Reviewed using Eventrac, Feb 2026
Naomi Rose

Fantastic Half Marathon!

I’ve done this twice now and loved it both times! Support is great, Marshalls are numerous and really helpful and positive. The route is challenging which makes it’s interesting and gives your legs and mind different things to think about, I shall definitely be back next year as it’s one of my favourites!!

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Flora Jones

Great event, though you have to love hills!

Fantastic atmosphere - great marshals and cheering along the course. Very well organised with informative emails before the event - I particularly appreciated the parking options.

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Bruce Dartnell

Brilliant event but would like to see some tweaks

I've done this half-marathon 3 times; it was my first ever half-marathon back in 2024. It's always a lovely event, and I always enjoy it as it's a tough course.

However, would love to see the talking at the start of the race happen before the start time, as we always end up starting 5-10 minutes later than we should.

Also, it's the first time I saw the final few people at the back of the race get put onto the pavement, even though they were well within the 3-hour cutoff limit that is listed for the race.

Other than that, the event is always brilliant, organiser and marshals are friendly and helpful, and atsmosphere is always brilliant.

Reviewed using Eventrac, Feb 2026
Robert Hardman

Good course, great volunteers. Average overall but worth doing if in the area.

Delay in starting due to the individual starting the race providing everyone his life story, parts of the course were very narrow due to traffic/ land or lack of closures. Picturesque route and fantastic volunteers.

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Philip Demay

A well-organised race over a hilly course!

Friendly to beginners in all ways except the hills. Lady in charge of toilets deserves special mention - Fiona?

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Julie Harper

No medals left!!!!!!

Ran out of medals which considering I booked my place months ago was disappointing. Guess they gave them to the last minute entries instead. Won’t be running this again.

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Judy Binnendijk

Hilly but a really great race to run !

Well organised and the support along the way from marshals and crowds was fantastic. Got me around!

Reviewed using Eventrac, Feb 2026
David Butcher

Awesome

Thanks for a terrific race. Brilliantly organised and marshalled.

Reviewed using Eventrac, Feb 2026