Running
Medway parks mile
Medway parks mile routes are one-mile routes in your local greenspaces.
We want to encourage Medway residents to get active with a daily mile walk, jog or run in their nearest park.
The routes will be mapped out here to download, and are displayed in the parks.
We're seeking volunteer champions that may want to lead a regular mile within these spaces. If your local park is listed below and you are interested in this role, email medwaysport@medway.gov.uk.
If your park is not listed and you would like it added to the programme, email medwaysport@medway.gov.uk.
You can also see our health walks programme for more ways to get active in Medway.
Park mile routes
Find a park mile route in:
Rochester
Chatham
Gillingham
- Beechings Green
- Gillingham Park
- Hempstead Recreation Ground
- Hillyfields Park
- The Strand
- Wigmore Park
- Queen Elizabeth Park
- Parkwood Green
- Peveral Green.
Rainham
Medway parks mile is an initiative by Medway Sport in partnership with A Better Medway.
Medway Daily School Mile
Medway Sport created the Medway Daily School Mile to share the success of the annual event with even more children and young people.
The national daily mile project offers the opportunity to be part of a bigger programme to celebrate this activity, with resources for schools.
We challenge Medway Schools to create their own one-mile route around the school with our pack and young leader training. Encourage your pupils to lead an active and healthy lifestyle by moving for one mile a day. Try these fun ways:
- skipping
- jogging
- tip-toeing
- running
- hopping.
Email medwaysport@medway.gov.uk for more information. This project also supports lunchtime and after school clubs, as well as family mile sessions.
Parkruns
Medway Sport supports its local parkrun community.
Join the:
- Great Lines parkrun: weekly free 5K timed run
- Medway junior parkrun: weekly free 2K timed event for juniors.
Medway offers a dynamic and diverse range of community running clubs in Medway with free opportunities to run in a safe and friendly group environment.
Medway marathon routes
If you are looking for a big challenge, our resident running expert has devised 4 themed, marathon-length runs around Medway:
- Medway Sports Centres Marathon – this route passes by each of our sports centres and finishes at The Strand in Gillingham
- Medway Marathon Loop – this loop starts and finishes at Great Lines Heritage Park in Gillingham. It traces the outskirts of Medway, south of the River
- Medway Peninsula Marathon – a loop taking you past the sites and spectacular estuary views to the north of the River Medway
- Medway Marathon Point to Point – a point to point (P2P) route that starts at the furthest point in Grain, finishing at Splashes in Rainham.
Marathons should only be attempted by experienced runners capable of safely completing the 26.2 miles.