Wokingham Half Marathon has been producing super fast times since 1984, it’s the areas traditional first post Christmas Half Marathon. Starting and finishing at Cantley Park the race runs on fast, flat rural roads and each year produces outstanding performances with course records of 1.11.09 (Liz Yelling) and 1.03.14 (Phil Wicks). Wokingham Half Marathon is the first race in the Berkshire Road Running Championships 2019. Read more: https://wokinghamhalf.co.uk

The Wokingham Half Marathon event has been added to our Featured races on the Runner’s portal. Pick your race and create your event in just a minute!

Using Race Peps on this event is completely free. This is how you do it:

  1. Read more and register at: https://www.racepeps.com. Only you need an account, not your friends.
  2. Log in to https://runner.racepeps.com and create your race event. The Wokingham Half Marathon event is listed already in our event planner, so it only takes a minute to create the event. Adjust the description and start end times to suite your needs, if you want.
  3. See our tutorial video to see everything step-by-step: https://vimeo.com/318877803
  4. Share your event link with your friends some days prior the race. Post it on Facebook or however you want. Friends will open the link and write or record their cheers on your route.
  5. Download Race Peps for iPhone or Android here: https://racepeps.com/download
  6. On the race day, open the Race Peps app and hear the love from your friends during the race. It will be emotional and fun!
  7. During the race, friends can send you live messages and see your location on the map too on the same friends link, you shared with them.

NOTES

  1. Optionally you can add some messages to yourself too, heads ups for drinking points etc. Just open the Friends link and pep yourself! 🙂
  2. You can use all the other apps just like normal (music, trackers), and Race Peps will NOT drain your battery out.
  3. Friends can’t ever see other friends messages. The runner can’t see any of the messages prior the race; after the race, Runner gets access to all sent messages.
  4. Only the runner needs an account and the app, friends do not need to register or download any apps. Anyone who has the Friends’ link can send you messages.
  5. We would love to hear your feedback, good or bad or anything in between! Race Peps is a little hobby project, built by a little team in Finland.

If you have any questions, head out our forums or just contact us they way you prefer (Facebook has been the most popular so far! :).

Photo and text credit: www.wokinghamhalf.co.uk