Calendar of road races in Valencia — The Running City — scheduled for 2018
Valencia — The Running City, has already drawn up its calendar of races for 2018. Once again, it will have a big range of trials over the following months, with races of all distances on offer for runners.
There are new features in the 14th ‘Divina Pastora’ [sponsoring insurance company] Circuit, with various new races such as the 1st Valencia City Run, the 1st Marta Fernández de Castro Race. There will also be variations on some of the classic trials in the city’s running calendar, which will be held on other dates next year.
Among other new features, one should note the creation of two new categories: universities, and ‘fallas’ [associations making Valencia’s huge, world-famed papier mâché figures for the festival of the same name]. This makes it possible for any runner to represent his/her ‘falla’ association or university. At the end of the race, prizes will be given for both the fastest times and the biggest number of entries, in both categories.
The youngest runners are not forgotten in the new events. Youngsters aged between 14 and 18 can represent their schools. At the end of the season, a prize will be given to the school with the greatest number of runners taking part.
Furthermore, all those taking part in at least 9 or 10 trials on the Circuit will automatically be entitled to a €3 discount on an entry to the Valencia-Trinidad Alfonso EDP Half-Marathon, and €5 in the case of the Marathon, for the 2019 editions of these races.
Main 2018 Races
In addition, Valencia will hold three major international events in 2018. As well as the usual fixtures (albeit with new dates in 2018) — the Half-Marathon and Valencia-Trinidad Alfonso EDP Marathon, the 24th of March 2018 will also mark a new first in the city’s running history — the IAAF/Trinidad Alfonso Half-Marathon World Championship in Valencia. This is yet one more step on the way to turn Valencia into the heart of the world’s road race scene. Thousands of amateur runners will get the chance to run alongside the world’s top athletes on the same circuit.
The new date for the Valencia Marathon is the 2nd of December. This is to avoid a clash with the Cheste Motorcycle Gran Prix. There have also been some changes to the usual dates for the races held towards the end of the year.
DAY | MONTH | EVENT |
14th | January | 10-kilometre Valencia Ibercaja Race |
27th | January | 37th King’s and Queen’s Cup for Clubs’ Indoor Track Events |
28th | January | 20th ‘Galápagos’ Amateur Race (DP Circuit) |
2nd | February | 2018 ‘City of Valencia’ Prize for Indoor Athletics |
17th | February | 4th Charity Race for Von Hippel Lindau (VHL) Disease |
18th | February | 6th 15-kilometre Valencia ‘Seaside Race’ |
17th and 18th | February | 54th Spanish Indoor Athletics Championship |
25th | February | 4th ‘Never Stop Running’ Race (DP Circuit) |
3rd | March | 1st Run round Valencia’s ‘Vents di Venezia’ Yacht Haven Race |
4th | March | 5th 10-kilometre Women’s Race — Sportswomen’s Day |
11th | March | 1st City Run (DP Circuit) |
24th | March | 2018 IAAF/Trinidad Alfonso Half-Marathon World Championship in Valencia |
28th | March | IES Serpis Charity Race |
2nd | April | ’Red Nose’ Charity Race [proceeds to paediatric charity] |
8th and 9th | April | 24-hour Dawn Valencia Endurance Run |
8th | April | 7th Valencian Companies Race |
14th | April | 5th Charity Run for Parkinson’s Disease |
14th | April | 3rd CEIP Arquitecte Santiago Calatrava [primary school] Charity Run |
15th | April | 14th Women’s Race |
22nd | April | 5th José Antonio Redolat Race (DP Circuit) |
28th | April | Seaside Schools Run |
29th | April | 5th Ekiden Valencia Clínica Baviera (Relay Marathon). |
29th | April | 6ª Holi Run – Colours Race |
6th | May | 6th Amateur Red Cross Charity Race. |
11th to 13th | May | AVAPACE Challenge |
12th | May | 3rd Seaside Triathlon – Santander Triathlon Series |
20th | May | 36th València Caixa Popular [bank] City Run |
27th | May | Valencia FC Foundation Run (DP Circuit) |
27th | May | 16th Valencia Amateur Triathlon (Pinedo) |
31st | May | 3rd B2RUN |
2nd | June | 6th 15-kilometre Banco Mediolanum Night Race |
8th | June | Valencia Beach Run |
10th | June | MD A300w Spanish Triathlon Cup. Valencia 113 |
17 | June | 1st Marta Fernández de Castro Race (DP Circuit) |
8th | July | 7-kilometre El Palmar |
8th | July | 2nd 10-kilometre Valencia Royal Yachting Club (RCNV) |
2nd | September | 5th Carpesa Run |
8th and 9th | September | 9th Valencia Triathlon. Valencia Yacht Haven |
9th | September | 5th 10-kilometre Horta Castellar-L’Oliveral Race |
17th | September | 6th Charity Run to Aid the Sahrawis |
23rd | September | 42nd Run from Barris de Sant Marcel•lí to Sant Isidre (DP Circuit) |
29th | September | RSR Valencian Fire Brigade Night Run |
30th | September | Can-rrera Bioparc |
7th | October | 9th ‘Falles’ Run (DP Circuit) |
14th | October | Sanitas Marca Running Series Valencia |
21st | October | 2018 Valencia Fights Cancer Run |
28th | October | 28th Valencia-Trinidad Alfonso EDP Half-Marathon. |
4th | November | 18th Cabanyal Run (DP Circuit) |
25 | November | 7th University of Valencia Race – Physical Education and Sports Department (DP Circuit) |
25th | November | 6th Pack Run, Valencia Bioparc |
2nd | December | 38th Valencia-Trinidad Alfonso EDP Marathon |
2nd | December | 10-kilometre Valencia Trinidad Alfonso Race. |
16th | December | EXERCISE Circuit (Alter Valencia) |
16th | December | 31st Valencia Port Run |
30th | December | 35th Valencia Saint Sylvester Run |