- Sat 1 Nov 2025
Rocket Around the Running Track
09:00
Age 18 & over
£55.50-£57.50
- 12 hrs track and field

Event overview
Back for its fourth year!
As part of the Fireworks Festival of Running, come along and tackle the epic 50-mile challenge!
Do you have it in you to keep going for 12 hours on a 400 metre athletics track?
The numbers
To give you an idea of number of laps, based on lane 1 (the inside lane):
- 5K = 12.5 laps
- 10K = 25 laps
- Half Marathon = 52.75 laps
- Full Marathon = 105.5 laps
- 50K Ultra = 125 laps
Event details
- Event village
- Newcomers
- Superfit only
- Changing facilities
- Free parking
- Music
- Park
- Toilets
Event HQ
Wodson Park Sports & Leisure Centre
Wadesmill Road
Ware
Hertfordshire
SG12 0UQ
UK
- Cut off time
- First aid
- Flat
- Food stations
- Marshals
- Mass start
- Multiple laps
- PB
- Toilets
- Traffic free
- Water stations
Aid stations
You can expect well-stocked aid stations all around the track which include crisps, chocolate, bananas etc.
Cut off
12 hours.
- Bring your own cup
This event is taking steps to be more sustainable:
Cupless
Runners can buy a reuseable cup at the event.
Car share
Car sharing is actively encouraged.
Medals
Runners often have the choice between a bespoke medal or a 'lucky dip medal' which is a scheme to help use up medals from other races to prevent them going to landfill.
- Cake
- Chip timing
- Medal
- Race photo
There are many perks to entering this event, including:
- The opportunity run your distance on an athletics track
- Respect from everyone present on the day!
- Medal
- Chip timing
- Race photos
- Encouragement throughout
- Hot drink
- Cake
- Community-feel
- Free parking
- Age 18 & over
- Entries open
- Collect race pack
- Enter online
Entry fees
Entry fee
£55.50
Entry fee
£57.50
