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Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Notice: West Waterford Greenway Half-Marathon - Sat 30th Aug 2025


The West Waterford Greenway Half-Marathon is coming up this year on Saturday the 30th of August 2025 at 9am. This scenic half has a limit of 750 entries so I would advise anyone that is interested to enter asap.

Entry fee includes a specially commissioned  Greenway dry-fit tshirt !

ENTRIES HERE

From West Waterford AC... On 30th August  2025 at 9 am West Waterford Athletic Club will host our 7th annual Waterford Greenway Half Marathon .Entries are now open for this event.   The race course is along the Waterford Greenway and in conjunction with Waterford City and County Council covering a distance of 13.1 miles along the now famous old Waterford/Dungarvan Railway line.

WATERFORD GREENWAY HALF MARATHON PRIZES.

The prizes for this race will be as follows. 

1st 5 Men and Women
Ladies: 1st and 2ndO/35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60,65 & 1st Junior
Men: 1st and 2nd O/40, 45, 50, 55, 60, 65, 70 & 1st Junior
We will also have 2 Men’s and 2 Ladies team prizes with first 3 finishing positions to score (Outside of prize winners).
Spot prizes will be randomly distributed to runners down the field at the finish line.
Note: Cash prizes will be given to the Men’s and Ladies winners and all category prizes will be vouchers.

ENTRY LINK HERE.

ST.JOHNS SPECIAL SCHOOL TO BENEFIT FROM WATERFORD GREENWAY HALF MARATHON.

Each year for the Waterford Greenway half marathon we partner up with a charity that will benefit from the donated monies by the runners taking part in the event. 

This year we are delighted to announce our charity partners for the event will be St.Johns Special School ,Dungarvan  As all our supporters know we try to raise awareness for important causes and charities with our events and this year the chosen charity we are supporting is St. Johns special school which  is a special school for Children with a Mild or Moderate General  Learning Disability, with two classes for children with a Severe to Profound General Learning Disability. 

They cater for boys and girls aged between 4 and 18 years from a wide catchment area which covers Dungarvan and West Waterford, and from Kilmacthomas to East Cork, and areas of South Tipperary. St. John's strives to provide a well-ordered, happy and secure atmosphere where the intellectual, spiritual physical, moral and cultural needs of the pupils are identified and addressed.

 For further race information please log on to club web site www.westwaterfordathletics.org and follow the link on home page for GREENWAY all race information 

Please note this event is expected to sell out fast.


This fantastic amenity opened officially in 2017 and has already experienced visitors from all over the country and beyond. Users are amazed by this 47 km spectacular off-road cycling and walking trail along an old railway line between Waterford and Dungarvan.

Please note this is a point to point race starting near the Coachhouse Kilmacthomas and finishing near Ballinroad, Dungarvan. Entry fee includes bus from Ballinroad to the start line near Kilmacthomas.


As the map shows below, the half-marathon starts near Kilmacthomas and finishes in Dungarvan.


As it was an old railway line, the course is very slightly downhill overall. The old railway line at Kilmacthomas is about 60-metres above sea level while Dungarvan is just above sea level. 

The course is certainly a LOT flatter than the average race on public roads.

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