The 5km, 10km, Half Marathon and Marathon races also form part of the Two Tunnels Mini Challenge and Challenge events. All runners who complete the Mini Challenge or Challenge will be awarded with a special trophy to mark their achievement. Runners will also collect a series of interlocking medals from the series (one per race). If you would like to collect the fourth medal you can enter any race distance on any of the Two Tunnels dates to get this.
The Two Tunnels Mini Challenge event builds up across 5km + 10km + Half Marathon distances. Distances can be covered in any order.
The Tunnels Challenge event builds up across 10km + Half marathon + Marathon distances. Distance can be covered in any order, subject to
Across 1, 2 or 3 dates. See above for dates offered for each individual distance. Check the schedules.
Min age 18 on date of the marathon.
Can I do it in Two Days?
You can complete a Mini Challenge (5km + 10km + Half), or Challenge (10km + Half + Marathon) by running on just two days. If you are running two events on the same day, collect both numbers at the start of the day for a speedy change over, and collect both medals at the end by showing your two race numbers.
Make sure to check the Provisional Schedules and allow some extra time between races as we would hope by July, August, that our races will look a bit more back to normal and it won't take as long to start each wave of runners.
Can I do it in One Day? Yes!! Only the Mini Challenge, not the full Challenge.
Yes! In August this is possible. You will run in the following waves/start times, though you can select any when you book;
08:30 - 10km (alongside the 50km runners who run 5 x 10km laps)
10:30 - 5km
11:20 - Half Marathon Wave 3
Please collect all your race numbers at the start of the day and only wear the number for your active race at any given time. The finish line and start line are 20m apart and we have a tent where One Day Mini Challenge runners can leave a bag for quick access to snacks, drinks and changes of numbers between races.
2022 Two Tunnels Trophy
The trophy design remains the same for 2022. We will be adding a line to the top engraving so it will read Two Tunnels Challenge 2020-22.
As the 2020 and 2021 seasons were somewhat disrupted, we will be using the same design as shown below, but replacing the final 0 with a new 2 design so the medals will spell out 2022 (new picture coming soon).
We have four medals to collect over the 2022 series, each medal is 10cm x 6cm. The whole set comes in at 24cm x 10cm! You can collect one medal from each race. Any distance, on any date, can you the next piece of the medal set. You can even run two events on one day, please check the Provisional Schedule document to see what races and wave combinations will work for you.
