Cairo Runners Half Marathon

Half marathon, 10K in Cairo, normally held in February. A flat half marathon course — Flat winter half organised by the city's largest running community.

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المسافات	Half marathon, 10K
المسافة الرئيسية	21.1 km (half marathon)
يُقام في	February
المسار	مسطح
المدينة	Cairo, Egypt
الأحوال المعتادة	21°C high / 10°C low, rain on ~6% of days

Flat winter half organised by the city's largest running community.

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Entry fees, closing dates and start times are set by the organiser and change every year, so they are not reproduced here — a stale deadline is worse than none. The organiser’s own site and its social channels are the authoritative source for the current year, and are where entry opens.

What is stable, and what this page covers: the month the race is held, what the course is like, the conditions you should expect, and how long a build-up the distance needs.

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Across the last ten years, Cairo in February has averaged a daily high of 21°C and a low of 10°C, with at least a millimetre of rain on about 6% of days.

These are recorded observations for the race month averaged over ten years, not a forecast and not a single past race day — race dates move, so one day’s figures would mislead. Source: Open-Meteo historical archive.

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How long to train

Build for 12 to 14 weeks from a base you already hold rather than from nothing. For half marathon the block should peak at a longest run of 18–20 km, reached at least two weeks before race day so there is time to taper. Ten days of reduced volume is enough of a taper at this distance; keep one short session at race pace in the final week.

Training for this course

The course is flat, which means no downhill sections to give your legs a break — you hold one rhythm the whole way. Train on similarly flat ground so the repetitive loading is not a surprise, and practise holding goal pace for long stretches rather than surging.

Conditions in February

Conditions are usually good for racing: highs average 21°C and lows 10°C in February, which is close to ideal for half marathon running. Dress for the temperature about ten degrees warmer than it actually is, since you will warm up within two kilometres.

Fuelling

A half marathon needs one gel or its equivalent around the hour mark for most runners, and a normal breakfast two to three hours before the start. Practise the same timing in at least three long runs so race morning is a repeat, not an experiment.

Race week

Sleep matters most two nights before, not the night before, so protect that one. Keep eating normally with a modest tilt toward carbohydrate, lay out kit the night before, and do nothing new: no new shoes, no new breakfast, no new socks. Plan to arrive at the start with time to spare — half marathon fields move slowly through bag drop and security.

المسافات وموقع السباق

Half marathon — 21.1 km
10K — 10 km

The pin marks Cairo city centre, the area the Cairo Runners Half Marathon starts and finishes in. This is not the course line: the route is set by the organiser and changes between editions, so the official course map for the current year is theirs to publish. The routes below are for training on the same roads.

Train on these roads: 10K routes in Cairo · long runs in Cairo · GPS art routes