The Maypole Project Chislehurst Half Marathon

Next Race: 16/05/2027

Glebe Football Club, Foxbury Avenue, Chislehurst, BR7 6SD

Overall Rating

4.7/ 5

13 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

Viv Foster

Fantastic race, beautiful woodland and trail route (with a little bit of A20 thrown in), great marshalls and organisation.

My 2nd time running this race and I will definitely be back. It's friendly with great start line facilities, well marshalled and signposted. It's an undulating course, and a bit easy to go out too fast for the first couple of miles and then regret it. There are a few places which are tricky underfoot (narrow paths cutting through meadow and woodland which are very uneven), my knees struggled with the sharp downhills for the last third of the race. But the woodland and trail parts are glorious, even with all the uphills. Thank you to all the volunteers and organisers! And a big thank you to Paul Palmer from Chislehurst Massage and Rehabilitation who was giving post run massages with proceeds to the Maypole Charity, for a painful but valuable 10 min leg pummelling!

Reviewed using Eventrac, May 2026
Pauline Kerali

Great cause. Great day!

The sweeper marshalls couple were fantastic! Kind, friendly and encouraging.
All the other marshalls were great as well.
Facilities and organisation was good.
Thanks for a great day overall.

Reviewed using Eventrac, May 2026
Paul Bartlett

Inspiring

I hand it to the organisers to run this event in a busy area, loads of marshals, great parking. I will come back and do it again without hesitation. Accessible easily from A20/M20 what's not to like!

Reviewed using Eventrac, May 2026
Steven Duffett

A really enjoyable and well managed event.

Will definitely sign up again next year.

Reviewed using Eventrac, May 2026
David Armstrong

Great trail run

Really well organised and friendly too plus excellent value for money.

Reviewed using Eventrac, May 2025
Alex Bentley

Well marshalled

Nice course. Well signed and marshalls were great

Reviewed using Eventrac, May 2025
Chris Balmer

Great local run for anyone in south London.

Very friendly and well marshalled event that I keep coming back to.

Reviewed using Eventrac, May 2025
Robert Morgan

Excellent Marshalls

Course was too short according to Strava and the changing rooms should have been available.

Reviewed using Eventrac, May 2025
Samantha Dagger

Great

Loved the course, brilliant facilities at the start and well organised. However the course was not quite 13.1 miles, I ran with my friend and my partner and all 3 of us had just under 13 miles on our Garmins.

Reviewed using Eventrac, May 2025
Virginia Davies

Great run

The volunteers were great. Really friendly and encouraging. There were lots of them which was very helpful when winding through the wood. They popped up everywhere.

Reviewed using Eventrac, May 2025
Ella White

Expertly organised and very friendly race

Reviewed using Eventrac, May 2025
Mark Hart

We’ll run race for my first ever half marathon

The less hills next time the better, they’re bloody hard.

Reviewed using Eventrac, May 2025