simplyhealth great birmingham run course map
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Weekend Contacts Social Media Timetable About the Event Simplyhealth Great Birmingham Run Course Map Simplyhealth Great Birmingham Run Elevation Profile Simplyhealth Great Birmingham Run Start Area Map Simplyhealth Junior Great Birmingham Run Course Map Simplyhealth Mini Great Birmingham Run Course Map Simplyhealth Great Birmingham Run Finish Area Map Road Closure and Re-Opening Times Road Closure Map Road Re-Opening Map Pre-Event Business Challenge Release Pre-Event Press Release
Sunday 14 October Weekend Contacts David Hart Director 07771 983688 [email protected] Nicola Hedley Communications 07850 788310 [email protected]
Social Media #GreatBirminghamRun
The day kicks off with the Simplyhealth Junior Great Birmingham Run with runners aged 9 to 16 years challenging themselves over a 2.5k course swiftly followed by the youngest of athletes, aged between 3 years and 8 years, taking on 1.5k in the Mini Run. Both events take place in and around the Event Village at Aston University campus, starting and finishing on Jennens Road. The main event of the day, the Simplyhealth Great Birmingham Run half marathon, heads out from the start line on Broad Street, following a brand new course for 2018. The event will start on the city’s Golden Mile before runners encounter the now infamous ‘hill’ that used to feature towards the end of the half marathon when participants energy reserves might have been running low. Only now it’s downhill all the way as runners descend the once challenging incline before taking on a raft of changes to the popular half marathon. Participants will do a lap of the city’s most beautiful green space, Cannon Hill Park before heading towards Edgbaston, the oldest test cricket ground in the world. After reaching Bournville, the home of the Cadbury chocolate factory since 1824, runners turn back towards the city centre taking in Selfridge’s landmark building with its 15,000 silver discs, before crossing the finish line on Jennens Road. The 2019 Simplyhealth Great Birmingham 10k takes place on Sunday 26 May, with the Simplyhealth Great Birmingham Run back in the city on Sunday 13 October. The events open for entry on Sunday 14 October 2018 and anyone who enters both will automatically receive £10 off their entry fee to the second event. For more information visit greatrun.org/birmingham
Road Closes Opens
Broad Street 0500 1430 Hagley Road (Five Ways to Highfield Road) 0500 1230
Highfield Road 0600 1230 Harborne Road (Highfield Road to Greenfield Crescent) 0600 1230
Calthorpe Road 0600 1230
St James’ Road 0600 1230 Ryland Road 0600 1230
Lee Bank Middleway (Westbound Bristol Road to Wheeley’s Road) 0600 1230 Haden Circus to Bristol Road 0600 1230
Belgrave Middleway 0600 1230
Longmore Street 0600 1330 Clevedon Road 0600 1330
Lincoln Street 0600 1330 Hallam Street 0600 1330
Willows Road 0600 1330 Edgbaston Road 0930 1500
Cannon Hill Park 0600 1500
Queens Ride 0600 1500 Pershore Road (Mary Vale Road to Belgrave Island) 0400 1530
Mary Vale Road (from Franklin Way to Pershore Road) 0600 1500 Franklin Way 0600 1500
Bournville Lane (from Franklin Way to Hazelwell Street) 0600 1500 Hazelwell Street 0400 1500
Dogpool Lane 0930 1500
Selly Park Road 0930 1500 Selly Avenue 0930 1500
Elmdon Road (from Bournbrook Road to Selly Park Road) 0930 1500 Kensington Road 0930 1500
Belgrave Island 0600 1530
Sherlock Street 0600 1530 Gooch Street 0600 1530
Bishop Street 0600 1530 Barford Street 0600 1530
McDonald Street 0600 1530 Rea Street South 0600 1530
Road Closes Opens
Charles Henry Street 0600 1530
Moseley Street 0600 1530 Bradford Street 0600 1600
Smithfield Street 0600 1600 Moat Lane 0600 1600
Digbeth High Street (from Park Street to Rea Street) 0600 1600
Park Street (Clayton Hotel guests will be permitted to turn right
onto Park Street to exit hotel car park, except between 0945 and 1045)
0900 1600
Moor Street 0900 1600
Moor Street Queensway 0900 1600 Masshouse Lane 0900 1600
James Watt Queensway (from Dale End to Jennens Road) 0900 1600
Jennens Road 0400 1900 Woodcock Street 0400 1900
Aston Street 0400 1900
Dozens of Midlands companies are eagerly counting down to this Sunday’s Simplyhealth
Great Birmingham Run Business Challenge.
The Business Challenge is a popular feature of the October half marathon and spring Great
Birmingham 10K, as firms compete for fastest-time trophies in the corporate world.
This year’s Great Birmingham Run has attracted more than 10,000 individual entrants with
the event returning to its spiritual home of Broad Street in the city centre.
Runners will be taking part to raise thousands of pounds for good causes, meet personal
health goals, or simply take in the city sights; among them the Selfridges building, leafy
Edgbaston, Cannon Hill Park and Bournville – home of Cadbury chocolate.
The new and improved route invites runners to push for a personal-best finish to the 2018
running season with a largely flat course through the south of the city.
Olympic bronze medallist, Katherine Merry, has backed the 34 employees from Deutsche
Bank’s Birmingham office who have signed up to take part in the Business Challenge.
The teams will be raising funds for Cure Leukaemia, one of Deutsche Bank’s UK Charities of
the Year, with every penny contributing to Deutsche Bank Birmingham’s target of £50,000 in
2018 to fund a specialist research nurse for 12 months.
Merry, who won 400m bronze at the Sydney Olympics in 2000, met some of the Deutsche
Bank runners at the recent ‘One Day’ event within the bank when staff were encouraged to
donate a day’s salary to the two UK Charities of the Year, Cure Leukaemia and Rays of
Sunshine.
The former world number one from Dunchurch in Warwickshire had these words of
encouragement for the team: “This message is sent with loads of luck to all those taking on
the Simplyhealth Great Birmingham Run. Having run a half marathon myself I know how
daunting it is and for those representing Deutsche Bank and running for Cure Leukaemia
THANK YOU. You are raising valuable funds and changing people’s lives.
“The feeling of joy and the sense of achievement you will have after you finish is brilliant.
Enjoy taking part in a fab half marathon in a fab city.”
A team of 20 accountants from audit, tax and consulting firm RSM in Birmingham has signed
up to enter the Great Birmingham Run for the first time.
The team, based at St Philips Point in Temple Row, will be running the 13.1 mile course for
local charity Acorns, which provides specialist care services to young people with life-limiting
or life-threatening conditions.
RSM Team captain Edd Pryce said: “There is a growing buzz around the office in the build up
to the run and we have had huge support for our chosen charity Acorns. We can’t wait to
compete against the other businesses and it is great to raise money for such a great charity.
“Acorns is one of RSM’s fantastic audit clients and we all feel very proud to be supporting
Acorns in its 30th year, it makes a massive difference to so many children and their families
when they desperately need it.”
RSM Partner and Great Run regular, Ian Wall, said: “This is an amazing event in my adopted
city, it really does come to life for everyone taking part and really showcases what is brilliant
about Birmingham, while also giving a welcome boost to bars, restaurants and retailers. Great
Run always get the arrangements just right and the support along the route is incredible!
“In a job like ours, being active is really important to keeping healthy. Edd has encouraged
people of all abilities and experience to get involved, the take up for the challenge and the
support for Acorns has been truly fantastic.”
SIMPLYHEALTH GREAT BIRMINGHAM RUN BUSINESS CHALLENGE TEAMS
ALTAIR ENGINEERING LTD
BROWNE JACOBSON LLP
CHARTER COURT FINANCIAL SERVICES LIMITED
DELOITTE LLP
DEUTSCHE BANK
EUROFINS FOOD AND WATER TESTING UK
J W HINKS LLP
JURYS INN CUSTOMER CONTACT CENTRE & SHARED SERVICE CENTRE
MARKS & CLERK LLP
MOORE STEPHENS LLP
PWC
RSM
SCOTT BADER COMPANY LIMITED
SPORT STRUCTURES
STEEL & ALLOY GONVARRI STEEL SERVICES
UTILITYWISE
THE ROYAL ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL CHARITABLE FUND
THE BINDING SITE
THURSFIELD SOLICITORS
VODAFONE
WESLEYAN HEAD OFFICE
NOTES TO EDITORS
About The Great Run Company
The Great Run Series is the world’s favourite run with over 230,000 participants a year taking
part. The events programme stretches across the UK from Aberdeen to Portsmouth offering a
full range of distances from 5k through to the half marathon. A full range of online training
services are available from Great Run Training. Great Run Local is a series of weekly events
staged in our key cities. All designed to provide the support and advice for participants of all
abilities to achieve their personal goal.
To find out more about the events and services provided by Great Run and its partners
visit www.greatrun.org
Great Run, the world’s favourite run.
About Simplyhealth
We strongly believe that movement and activity is the cornerstone to better health.
For 145 years we’ve been helping people to make the most of life through better everyday
health. In 2017 Simplyhealth and Denplan united under one Simplyhealth brand and today
we’re proud to be the UK’s leading provider of health cash plans, Denplan dental payment
plans and animal health plans.
We help over three million people in the UK access the health and care products, services and
support that they need, when they need them and at a price they can afford.
We’re proud to donate 10% of our pre-tax profits to health-related charities every year, and
this amounted to over £1 million in 2017. Our Simplyhealth Great Run Series partnership
raised an additional £42.6 million for charity.
Simplyhealth is a trading name of Simplyhealth Access, which is authorised by the Prudential
Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential
Regulation Authority.