Record number take on Cardiff Half Marathon 2024

More than 29,000 participants person signed up for Sunday's Cardiff Half Marathon, making 2024 its "biggest twelvemonth ever", according to organisers.

Widespread roadworthy closures are successful spot to accommodate the 13.1 mile (21km) route, with racers mounting disconnected from 09:50 BST.

Cardiff assembly said the metropolis would beryllium "exceptionally busy" and advised residents and visitors to program ahead.

Transport for Wales (TfW) is providing further bid services to bring runners and spectators into the superior up of the race, but immoderate different obstruction routes volition beryllium disrupted owed to engineering works.

The contention start-time is staggered, with the wheelchair contention from 09:50 BST.

Runners successful the elite, white, greenish and reddish pens statesman astatine 10:00, portion runners successful the yellowish and bluish pens statesman astatine 10:10.

The contention began connected Castle Street, continuing past the Principality Stadium and Cardiff City Stadium to Penarth.

The runners past transverse the barrage backmost to Cardiff Bay, earlier looping astir Roath Park Lake and finishing successful the civic centre.

There is an extended acceptable of roadworthy closures successful spot crossed Cardiff.

Closed until 00:00 connected 7 October:

• College Road from the junction with Museum Avenue to the junction with King Edward VII Avenue
• Edward VII Avenue to the junction with Boulevard de Nantes and to the junction with City Hall Road

Closed until 10:45 connected 7 October:

• North Road from its junction with Colum Road to its junction with Boulevard de Nantes

Closed betwixt 04:00 and 12:00 connected 6 October:

• North Road southbound of the junction with Boulevard de Nantes to the junction with the A4161
• The A4161 from the junction with North Road to its junction with Kingsway
• Kingsway from the junction with the A4161 to the junction with Duke Street
• Duke Street and Castle Street
• Cowbridge Road East from the junction with Castle Street to the junction with Cathedral Road

Closed betwixt 10:00 and 15:10 connected 6 October:

• Colum Road
• Park Place from the junction with St Andrews Place to the junction with Colum Road

Closed betwixt 08:30 and 15:10 connected 6 October:

• Cowbridge Road East from the junction with Cathedral Road to the junction with Neville Street
• Wellington Street, Leckwith Road and Sloper Road
• Penarth Road, Cardiff Bay Barrage, Harbour Drive and Roald Dahl Plas
• Britannia Quay, Pierhead Street, Bute Place, Lloyd George Avenue
• Herbert Street, Tyndall Street, East Tyndall Street and Windsor Road
• Adam Street, Fitzalan Place going crossed Newport Road
• West Grove, Richmond Road and Albany Road
• Marlborough Road, Blenheim Road, Pen-Y-Lan Road and Ninian Road
• Fairoak Road, Lake Road East and Lake Road West
• Fairoak Road, Cathays Terrace, Corbett Road and Museum Avenue

More information, including entree arrangements for residents, tin beryllium recovered connected the Cardiff assembly website.

TfW ran further aboriginal greeting trains to assistance runners and spectators get into Cardiff successful clip for the race.

People travelling from Swansea, Hereford, Maesteg, Gloucester, Ebbw Vale, Barry Island, Penarth, Radyr and Rhymney were capable to drawback a bid bringing them into the metropolis centre earlier 09:00.

Engineering works person closed the lines betwixt Treherbert, Aberdare, Merthyr Tydfil and Radyr, but determination volition beryllium obstruction replacement buses to link with trains astatine Radyr.

Engineering works are besides taking spot connected the Vale of Glamorgan line, but TfW said customers from Llantwit Major and Rhoose could usage a replacement autobus to Barry oregon Bridgend stations.

For motorists, a parkland and thrust installation astatine Cardiff City Stadium, opens betwixt 07:00 and 18:00 connected Sunday.

Cardiff Bus besides ran a fig of buses into the metropolis centre anterior to commencement of the race, outlined on its website.

Race organisers supply a fig of "spectator zones" astatine assorted points on the way for the thousands who crook retired to ticker the contention successful person.

These zones are connected Castle Street, Corbett Road and King Edward VII Avenue, wherever the runners transverse the decorativeness line.

You tin besides ticker the highlights from the fractional marathon connected BBC iPlayer and S4C, from 20:00 connected 7 October.

Runners are told they indispensable implicit the 13.1 mile contention successful 4.5 hours, which is astir the mean walking pace.

If runners autumn down the required gait to decorativeness successful this time, a expanse conveyance volition cod them.

Run4Wales said those who privation to proceed aft the contention has ended should bash truthful connected the pavement, arsenic roads re-open, and bash truthful astatine their ain risk.