Ealing Half Marathon 2027: 26 September, Entries Open

The 2026 race has been run. The next Wizz Air Ealing Half Marathon is on Sunday 26 September 2027 at 9am, with the Ealing Feeling 5K at 9.05am and the Trailfinders Ealing Mini Mile on Saturday 25 September 2027. Entries for 2027 are already open, starting from £30, and the organiser says prices rise through the year, so the earlier you enter the less you pay; the Mini Mile is £10 (ealinghalfmarathon.com).

Updated 29 September: the 2026 race is over and the 2027 date is published. What follows is the 2026 page as it stood before race day, kept as the best guide to what closes and when.

The Wizz Air Ealing Half Marathon was on Sunday 27 September 2026 and started at 9am. The Ealing Feeling 5K went off five minutes later at 9.05am on the same closed roads, and the children’s Trailfinders Ealing Mini Mile filled the whole of Saturday 26 September in Walpole Park.

Two practical things were not settled three weeks out. The organiser’s own website names two different parks for the start line, and no 2026 road closure list has been published anywhere. This page gives what is confirmed, what the council said the last two times it published closure detail, and what to assume in the meantime.

What is confirmed for 2026

The half marathon is a single lap, fully road closed, UKA registered and chip timed, running through Central Ealing, Montpelier, Pitshanger, West Ealing, Hanwell and St Stephen’s. There is a three-hour cut-off and water stations at miles 4, 5.5 and 9 plus one at the finish. Entry prices rise through the year, so “from £30” is a floor rather than today’s price (race pages, read 4 September 2026).

The 5K is new-ish, described by the organiser as “our new community 5k”, also fully road closed, with the race village and start given as Walpole Park.

The start line: two parks, and the race’s own pages disagree

• The home page says “Lammas Park is also the start and finish of the Ealing Half Marathon”.
• The 5K page says “Race Village and Start, Walpole Park, Ealing W5”.
• Ealing Council’s own article of 18 July 2026 says “the race starts outside Walpole Park at 9am”, then four paragraphs later describes volunteers staffing “the race village in Lammas Park”. Its competition question that week was “at which Ealing park does the half marathon finish?” and its own text answers Walpole Park.
• The council’s 2021 article said the race “will begin in Lammas Park at 9am” and returns “to Lammas Park via Uxbridge Road”.

The two parks adjoin each other in central Ealing either side of Mattock Lane, so this is a five-minute problem rather than a wrong-side-of-town one. If you are spectating, head for Walpole Park, Mattock Lane, W5 5EQ, which is where the race village, the bag drop and the finish have been in recent years. No 2026 route map has been published to settle it.

Road closures: what exists, and what does not

There is no 2026 closure list, and the places you would look have all gone dark.

• The organiser rebuilt its website for 2026 and the old closure pages went with it. ealinghalfmarathon.com/route-2/ and /travel/ both redirect once and then return 404. There is no route map, no travel page and no residents’ page. The main menu carries an item labelled Event Day Info, and on 4 September its dropdown opened onto nothing.
• Ealing Council’s site search for “half marathon road closures” returns exactly one document, and it is the 2016 list. There is nothing since.

The mechanism, from the council

The clearest statement the council has ever published is from 20 September 2021, five days before that year’s race:

• All roads the event passes through close to traffic at some stage.
• The first roads close from 7am, and it is “anticipated that all roads will reopen by 1pm”.
• In Montpelier, Pitshanger and Central Ealing, roads close as the lead runner approaches and reopen “no later than 15 minutes after the last runner has passed”.
• Everywhere else stays shut until its stated time, so runners can get back safely.
• Buses were diverted from 6.30am until 1pm.
• Road closure enquiries: 020 8825 5000.

What the road list looked like

The most recent full list anyone published was for the 2023 race, when Ealing Nub News printed the alphabetical list five days before the event, 50 entries with a window against each, several of them marked as part of a road only. That is a different year on a route that has changed, so it is a guide to the shape of the morning and not this year’s order:

• Earliest closure: Church Lane at 7am, two hours before the gun.
• Longest closures, all running to 12.55pm: Church Lane, Broomfield Road, Churchfield Road, Culmington Road, Mattock Lane, part of Uxbridge Road, Elers Road, Kingsdown Avenue, Lavington Road and St Aidans Road.
• Most residential streets were shut for 90 minutes to two hours, not the whole morning. Woodville Road, for instance, was 8.40am to 10.10am.

The safe assumption if you need to drive out of the area on race morning is to be out before 8am or to wait until early afternoon.

For anything else dug up in the borough that weekend, see our roadworks and travel page.

Parking on race day

There is no event car park, and the race guide has previously been explicit that there is no parking on the roads around the race village. Three local rules make driving worse than it looks:

• Zone A, Central Ealing, is a Sunday zone, operating 10am to 4pm on Sundays, which covers the second half of the race.
• Springbridge Road multi-storey, the borough’s largest at 465 bays, W5 2AB, does not sell hourly parking on a Sunday. It is the daily rate or nothing, from £3.25.
• Perceval House car park, W5 2UQ, charges at weekends, 8am to 6pm, even though it is free to the public after 6pm on weekdays.

The full picture, including which controlled parking zones operate on a Sunday, is on our parking in Ealing page. Nothing has been announced about suspended bays or waived charges for race day.

Getting there without a car

Walking times to the start and finish area, from the organiser’s most recent published travel advice:

• South Ealing (Piccadilly line), about 10 minutes.
• Ealing Broadway (Elizabeth, Central and District lines), about 15 minutes.

Check TfL on the morning. The organiser has previously warned that West Ealing and Hanwell stations “may not be operational on Sundays”, and Sunday engineering work is common on that stretch.

There is a second crowd in the borough that afternoon. Ealing Trailfinders play Richmond at home at 2pm at the Trailfinders Sports Club, Vallis Way, W13 0DD, which is on the club’s own ticket platform. If you are driving anywhere near Castlebar Road late in the day, that is why.

Can you still enter?

The half marathon and the 5K were both still taking entries through RaceNation on 4 September. The Mini Mile has sold out: its page has no Register button, only “Join Waiting List”, and the organiser says places “sold out within days of going on sale”.

The Mini Mile timetable

Ten age-group waves in Walpole Park on the Saturday, £10 each, for children aged 0 to 16:

That page contradicts itself twice. It calls the day “11:00 AM - 3:45 PM” while its own table has a wave at 4pm, and it says “Ten age-group races” in one paragraph and “11 separate races” in another. The table lists ten. Take the table, not the summary, and check again in race week because the organiser marks the times “subject to change”.

Volunteering

The race uses more than 700 volunteers and was still recruiting on 4 September. Saturday is Mini Mile marshalling, about six hours. Sunday is set-up, route marshals, water stations, bag drop and race village, about four to six hours.

The reward is a free place in the 2027 race, plus a breakfast roll and a drink on the day, but the conditions are stated plainly: sign in and out, stay until your team leader dismisses you, and claim the place by 31 December.

Is it on this year? Yes

The race is confirmed and entries are open. Wizz Air was announced as title sponsor on 22 June 2026 on a three-year deal, which is why it is now the Wizz Air Ealing Half Marathon. It is delivered by RaceNation Events Ltd on behalf of We Run Ealing, a registered charity (number 1179283) formerly called EHM Legacy CIC, which has been the beneficiary since 2021. More than £3.5 million has been raised for charity since the race began in 2012. This year’s named charity partners are Meadow House Hospice and Shooting Star Children’s Hospices, and runners can fundraise for any charity.

One caution on the organiser’s own site: its news page still carries a post headed “Welcome to Ealing Festival of Running Weekend 2025” pointing at 28 September 2025. That is last year’s and is not a second date.

Still to come

• The 2026 road closure list with times. In past years it appeared in the fortnight before the race, from the council or the organiser.
• Bus diversions, from TfL, usually in race week.
• Which park the start line stands in, and a 2026 route map.
• Any parking suspension or charge waiver in the closure area.

This page is rewritten as each lands. Everything above was checked on 4 September 2026, and every date on it is attributed to the year it belongs to. If you are looking for something else that weekend, our things to do in Ealing page has the parks, the museum and the zoo, all of which stay open.