A Week Like No Other: Race Day
Sunday 24th May 2015 had arrived! It felt like a long time ago since I’d struggled to run 3K on a cold February day, around my hometown in Hampshire. Since then, over the course of three months, I’d muddled my way through 14 weeks of marathon training, trying everything from running in layers to gradually upping the distances I […]
A Newbie Runner’s Perpective: The Anticipation of Race Day
Week 7- A Newbie Runner’s Perspective: The Anticipation of Race day Training’s complete. Just some packing to do this weekend and then I fly to Uganda. Then six days after my arrival, I take on the Uganda Marathon! So with eight days to go and limited race experience, how am I feeling and how do […]
An Evening of Beer & Adventure, by the Uganda International Marathon
On January 16th, The Uganda Marathon held the 2nd ever Beer & Adventure evening at the Escape School, London. It was an evening of excitement, inspiration, meeting adventurers and talking about crazy things that people do for… Well for the sake of doing something extraordinary. If you ask any of the people involved in putting together […]
Early Bird Extended & current flight prices
Early Bird Extended Good news for lovers of bargains. We’re working with a few organisations who have asked us to extend the early bird pricing until the end of January, so they have enough time to get the word out to their employees and supporters. We’re happy to oblige, but we thought we’d spread the the […]
A Message About the Safety of Running the Uganda Marathon
One of the questions we get asked a lot by runners & their families: Is Uganda safe? We are conscious of this as a concern for anyone undertaking international travel, particularly to non-European or non-Western countries. We’d like to take an opportunity to address this directly and be clear about the steps that we […]
Official Launch – Uganda High Commission, London
Hello friends! On Tuesday 4th November, we formally launched the inaugural Uganda International Marathon at the Uganda High Commission, London. In attendance were the Ugandan Minister for Tourism, the Ugandan Ambassador to the UK, the CEO of the Uganda Tourism Board as well as many other public figures from the country. We are honoured to […]
Launch and approvals
Welcome to the Ugandan International Marathon blog! Here’s what’s happened so far: This week we’ve received word from the Ugandan Police, Masaka Mayor, Regional Road & Traffic Commission, and Regional Council & Parliament that they are all wholeheartedly supporting the marathon. This is incredibly exciting- communities are very strong here in Uganda, and once authorities […]
