Name: Horsham Running Festival 2025
Start: 2025-09-14T09:00:00+10:00
Location: Sawyer Park, Hocking Street, Horsham VIC, Australia

On SEPTEMBER 14th 2025 the inaugural Horsham Running Festival will be held on paths alongside the picturesque Wimmera River in Horsham, Victoria.

The event will now offer a full marathon and half marathon for runners, a quarter marathon (10.55km) event for runners, a quarter marathon event for walkers and a 5km walk or run option. There will also be a FREE 2km Kids' Dash. This will be a fun untimed event for U/12s.

Race Director, Brian Haddy, has been co-ordinating a local fun run in his home town of Mount Barker, SA for the past eight years. This ‘Conquer the Summit’ event has grown from 100 to over 500 participants each year and has raised over $200,000 for local youth development charities in that time.

In 2022 Brian also co-ordinated the Great Kanku Breakaways Marathon Festival in Coober Pedy and then the Mad Max Marathon in Broken Hill (www.madmaxmarathon.com.au) in 2023 & 2024 and the inaugural Mildura Riverfront Marathon (www.mildurariverfrontmarathon.com.au) in 2024.

The aim of the Horsham Half is threefold – to attract runners from all over Australia to this thriving regional city; to encourage more local children and adults to get into the running ‘habit’; and to provide an additional annual running challenge for the local parkrun and running community.