Surrey’s largest half marathon boasts UKA sanctioning and the British Association of Road Races (BARR) Gold Award for outstanding race management. The Mercer Surrey Half Marathon was voted “The UK’s Best Road Run” – achieving 1st place in the 2016 racecheck awards. Read more: http://surreyhalfmarathon.co.uk

The Surrey 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 Surrey Half is completely free and without hidden catches. 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 Surrey Half Marathon event is listed already in our event planner, so it only takes a minute to create the event. You can leave everything as they are, or adjust the description and start end times to suite your needs / goals.
  3. See our tutorial video below 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. Launch and log in to the app some days before the race, to avoid all the hassle and buzzle and sizzle on the starting line!
  7. 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!
  8. 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. We most likely will contact you with a link to a voluntary user survey after the race, but won’t bother you anyways else nor anything else evil.

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: https://facebook.com/racepeps  :).

Photo and text credit: http://surreyhalfmarathon.co.uk

Tutorial video