A course with no climbs means the same stride repeated for hours, which is exactly how shins and feet give way. Imaging, a walking boot, weeks of rehab: the bill grows fast. Your medical costs are covered up to €150,000, specialist treatment included.
In April a cold squall hitting a slowing runner is enough to drop core temperature, and the banks of the Scheldt are exposed to the wind. If you cannot travel back under your own steam, assistance and repatriation are covered at actual cost.
Three distances, three very different fields, one shared fact: a chip on the shoe and a result at the end. First-timers on the ten kilometres are in competition just as much as the marathon pack. The Competition option covers your race and your whole road season.
Cobbles and old rails around the docks are unforgiving when a packed group goes down at the first tight turn. When the consequences are permanent, a disability capital of up to €200,000 pays for the adaptations your home and your job will need.
On a flat route you hold one rhythm far too long, with no climb to break the pattern. Achilles tendons and shins absorb everything, and the wall arrives without warning. April weather shifts quickly too: a cool start, a shower at halfway, then a headwind along the water for the closing kilometres.
Between two race numbers sits a whole winter of mileage in bad weather. Annual marathon insurance covers that build-up as much as the race itself, in Belgium or anywhere else you happen to be running, with nothing to arrange again each time you enter an event.
Three distances on one spring programme, from ten kilometres to the marathon, draw a very mixed field of Belgian and Dutch clubs plus runners travelling further. The route through the city and the port stays flat, with cobbled stretches and wind that rarely takes the day off.
You offer three distances in a single day, from first-timers to seasoned marathoners. One subscription insures all of them against bodily accident. Our medical assistance line answers day and night while the event is running, and repatriation is included. We can also come in as a partner or sponsor.
Yes. All three distances are timed and ranked, so all three count as official competition. What matters for the cover is the nature of the accident, not how far you were due to run.
Yes. Your country of residence is irrelevant. Accidents during the race and during training are covered in Belgium and anywhere else you run, with no separate local policy required.
No. This contract pays for the bodily consequences of an accident, not for money already spent. It is not cancellation insurance, so your entry, your travel and your hotel stay unrefunded.
Even pacing, a windproof layer and shoes that grip wet cobbles all reduce the damage. On the insurance side, medical costs, assistance and the disability capital take over if an accident happens anyway.
Price depends on the formula, on whether you add the Competition option and on the period insured, one race or a full year. The AxeoSport online quote shows your exact figure with no strings.