20–22 June 2025 // Haywards Heath
The Sussex Running Festival
Celebrate running at Sussex RunFest 2025—a perfect blend of movement, learning, and connection.
ticket Info
Celebrate running at Sussex RunFest 2025—a perfect blend of movement, learning, and connection.
ticket InfoSussex RunFest 2025 is a community running and wellbeing festival. Whether you’re a seasoned runner or just getting started, there’s something here for you.
Join guided runs for every level and running-focused strength and yoga workshops. Enjoy the dancing at the Rave Run and compete in the Beer Mile relay and RunFest Game Show.
Discover ways to prevent and treat injury and elevate your running performance. Hear from inspiring runners, as well as experts on physical and mental health and running form.
Soak up the post-run vibes and enjoy live music and DJ sets. Celebrate with our fantastic running community.
Enjoy events on Friday evening, Saturday all day and evening, and Sunday morning and afternoon. The Hop Sun Taproom, RH16 4HW, is our hub venue: Google Maps.
Join passionate and experienced run leaders on community runs. Enjoy a range of routes, distances and speeds.
Take short strength and power classes designed specifically to help runners go further, faster, and with fewer injuries.
Learn how to add mindful movement to your life—improving your flexibility, running form, warm-up routines, and injury prevention techniques.
The ultra-endurance athlete and mental health advocate will lead a run and speak about completing a marathon a day in 2024.
Join the performance psychologist and founder of Kinda Brilliant Psychology to learn how to embrace pressure and reach your full running potential.
Learn from physios, podiatrists, and other physical health experts about injury prevention and treatment—and get in-person advice and assessment.
Crack the clues, reach the checkpoints, and try to get your team home first in this thrilling chase across town.
Gather your team for this epic relay race. Drink, then run a quarter mile as fast as you can. Fastest team home wins!
A run crossed with a party! Dance and sing along on a fun group run with a portable sound system.
Soak up the festival soundtrack with live music and DJ sets, and enjoy fantastic craft beer brewed on-site by Heathen Brewers.
Welcome in the year’s longest day with special runs, yoga sessions, workshops, and community coffee chats.
Sussex RunFest isn’t a training camp. It’s a 'choose-your-own-adventure' weekend for anyone who loves running, movement, and feeling good – in body and in mind.
Some people will come for a day. Some will go all in. Others will dip in, dip out, and let the weekend carry them along.
Whether you’re training for a goal, finding your feet, or just love a good weekend of movement, music, and connection – RunFest is your space to explore, enjoy, and make your own.
However you choose to RunFest, the weekend is yours to shape. Here's what that could look like...
Jess signs up with her running friends but secretly just wants a relaxed weekend with good vibes.
Friday: She arrives in time for the Stretch into the Weekend session at The Movement studio, then joins the Rave Run – fancy dress unicorn horn and all – and ends the night with a beer and a laugh at the Hop Sun.
Saturday: She skips the morning run for a lie-in and coffee, then walks over for the 11am yoga class, followed by an injury prevention workshop. After a late lunch, she’s front row for the “Mind Over Miles” talk and cheers on the Beer Mile, drink in hand.
Sunday: Jess joins the Solstice Run + Yoga combo (her highlight), then browses the kit swap before a final drink in the sun at The Hop Sun. Bliss.
Alex is training for a summer marathon and wants to test her legs, meet other runners, and soak up motivation.
Friday: After arriving from Brighton, Alex drops off some kit at the swap, then joins the Rave Run. It’s not speedy, but it’s fun – and a great warm-up for the weekend.
Saturday: She kicks off with James Cooper’s hill-focused run, then heads to back-to-back strength classes. After lunch, she hits the foot and ankle clinic, then grabs a seat for James’ talk. Later, she’s convinced to join the Beer Mile… and doesn’t regret it. Much.
Sunday: She’s up for the 7.5k Solstice Run, then joins the breathwork session to learn some race-day focus. The treasure hunt? She’s all over it. Alex heads home with tired legs and a full heart.
Enjoy fun, friendly group runs. Hear from experts and inspiring runners. Gain new perspectives. Learn how to build strength, speed, endurance, and overcome injury. Play fun run-related games. And spend the weekend with our awesome running community!
A Sussex RunFest 2025 pass is your ticket to a weekend of wonderful run-related experiences. Early Bird tickets available until 30th April: use code 'EARLYBIRD'.
Your ticket includes unlimited access to runs, classes, talks, and sessions! See the Line-up.
Some activities will have capacity limits and those will use a simple booking system.
Tickets cover the key things we need, like first aid, live music, equipment, and insurance.
We will also be supporting charities and causes championed by our activity leaders.
Would you like help organise the event, lead a run or class, give a talk or be a marshal? Are you interested in sponsoring RunFest?
Get in touch! We'd love to talk about it, and tell you what support we can offer in return.