Aviation Action's annual virtual running challenge for mental health awareness. Run the length of a UK runway every day for 30 days. Raising funds for mental health and suicide awareness in aviation. Join us. ✈️

Run the Runways 2026 is a virtual running challenge. Every day throughout September, participants across the UK and beyond will run, walk or jog the length of a real airport runway. A different one every day. We begin on 1st September at Inverness, Scotland's most northerly commercial airport, and we travel south through a further 28 iconic UK strips: Newcastle, Manchester, Birmingham, Cardiff, Bristol, Gloucestershire, London Gatwick, London Heathrow, Southend, Belfast and more. On 30th September, we close at Frankfurt, one of Europe's greatest aviation hubs, on a runway stretching 4,000 metres. Thirty days. Thirty runways. Nearly 69 kilometres of collective tarmac. You do not need to be a runner. You do not need to be fast. Some days the runway is under 1,500 metres. Some days it is nearly 4 kilometres. Every single one of them counts.