London Half Marathon

Prepare to run to the beat in the first London Half Marathon! With the Olympics coming in 2012 and the Tour de France hosting the Grand Departe here last year, London is proving itself to be a city devoted to sport.

Starting out from the O2 Arena and taking in the surrounds of Greenwich, the London Half Marathon is a thriteen mile race with a difference. Unlike most street races, this one has musical accompaniment.

Entitled Run to the Beat, the half marathon is an unusual road race for those runners more musically inclined. With 16 key spots along the route where live musicians will play throughout the day, the race looks set to be a great sporting day out as well as a carnival style event for the spectators.

Music has long been thought to improve motivation in athletes when training or working out, and now Dr Karageorghis frm the School of Sport at Brunel University has proved. When rhythmical up beat tempo music is played to runners and people exercising, their performance rate can improve anything up to 20 percent. And now the scientists have put their theory into practise with this unusual half marathon race.

Sixteen spots around the London race course have musicians located on them to play inspiring and motivational music to the runners as they complete the London half marathon. With music specifically catering to the terrain of the course, the runners should find that they have a boost in energy levels or a sudden sense of motivation when they are flagging - an excellent way to ensure that more people finish the race in a faster time!

Sponsored by Leukaemia Research, the blood cancer charity is getting on board the half marathon in an attempt to raise awareness and funds to help with research. If you fancy giving to a good cause and having a musical run, then you can join the Banana Army, who are the charities running team, with DJ Spoony at the head.

A definite for any serious runner in the city and a great way to contemplate building up to the full thing, the London Half Marathon is set to become another great fixture in the city's sportinfg calender.

And if you want to catch all the action from thye ringside, then the race route for Run to the Beat looks like this:

Start and finish: O2 Arena
Mile 1: Greenwich Yacht Club
Mile 2: Thames Barrier
Mile 3: Thames Path
Mile 4: Royal Artillery Museum
Mile 5: Royal Artilery Barracks
Mile 6: Charlton House and Park
Mile 7: Blackheath Rugby Club
Mile 8: Greenwich Park and Royal Observatory
Mile 9: National Maritime Museum
Mile 10: Old Royal Naval College

For more information or to register for the Run to the Beat London half marathon, click on the link below.

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