One team. Seventeen stages. 198 miles around the edge of Norfolk, running through the night.
The Round Norfolk Relay is the biggest thing March AC does all year. A team sets off on Saturday morning and runs continuously — road, coast path, fen lanes, darkness — handing over stage by stage until the last runner comes home on Sunday. Every runner needs a cyclist or a car behind them on the night stages, so it takes far more people than it takes runners.
It is not a race you enter on your own. The club enters one team, the stages are allocated between members, and everyone else drives, marshals, navigates, hands out flapjack at 3am and gets the next runner to the right lay-by on time.
How it works
| Distance | Around 198 miles |
| Stages | 17, ranging from under 6 miles to over 16 |
| Starts | Saturday morning |
| Finishes | Sunday morning, after running overnight |
| Support | Cycle escort required on most stages; a few need none |
| Next | [2027 date to confirm] |
Stages vary a lot. Some are short and fast, some are long and exposed, and the ones in the small hours are their own kind of event. You do not need to be quick to be useful — you need to be able to run your stage at roughly the pace you said you would, so the handovers work.
Club records
The fastest March AC runner ever to cover each of the seventeen legs, going back to 1997 — plus age-graded records, top-30 finishes and most appearances.
Leg records and hall of fame →
Members — getting involved
Both of these live in the members area and need the club password.
Put your name down for a stage
Pick the stages you could run and give the pace you would actually hold on each. Where a stage is oversubscribed the place goes to a random draw; where one person puts their name down, it is theirs.
Race-day board
Every stage on one page: runner, cyclist, car moves, lead driver, handover times and rolling projected times that update as legs finish. This is the page to have open on the day.
Not a member yet?
The relay team is drawn from club members. Join for 2026/27 — or come to a Tuesday or Thursday session first and see whether we suit you.