With 25,000 on the start line the first kilometre is run shoulder to shoulder, and a fall in that crush means a broken collarbone, a cracked wrist or an opened knee. Medical costs up to €150,000 cover emergency care, imaging and surgery.
Ambulances struggle to move through a packed closed road, and an injured visitor still has to travel back afterwards. Assistance and repatriation at actual cost handle the evacuation from the course and the journey to your own front door.
Both distances are chip timed and ranked, which most policies treat as official competition. The Competition option covers your Scottish bib and the rest of your season, whether you are racing 10 km or the full 21.1 km.
A head impact or a complex fracture in the middle of a dense field can leave consequences that never fully clear, affecting mobility and work. The permanent disability capital of up to €200,000 is paid out to help you adapt home and job.
A field this size creates its own hazards: a compressed start, pace dictated by the runners around you, discarded bottles underfoot at the drink stations, kerbs and manhole covers to dodge. October wind coming up the river adds uneven resistance on the open stretches and chills a soaked body fast.
Road running is not one October morning. You string together 10 km races, halves and long runs all year, often alone and on open roads. Annual half marathon insurance covers that whole habit, in training and in competition, in your own country and anywhere else you travel to race.
A major autumn road weekend in Scotland, pairing a half marathon with a 10 km and drawing large crowds through the centre of Glasgow. The combined field approaches 25,000, from elite runners to fast walkers raising money for charity.
You stage two races in one day, with thousands of bibs on each distance. We insure every participant through a single sign-up, whichever race they chose. Our medical assistance line is reachable day and night while the event runs, repatriation is included, and we can be a partner of your event.
It is individual. Each insured runner has their own guarantees, whatever the size of the field. A fall caused by another runner opens the same rights to medical costs and assistance.
Yes. Both distances sit under the same personal accident insurance. Your choice of race changes nothing about medical costs, assistance, repatriation or the permanent disability capital.
No. This guarantee is personal accident insurance, not cancellation insurance. Your entry and your trip to Scotland stay your own cost, while the cover deals with bodily injury.
Yes. The contract applies whatever your country of residence and whatever the country of the race, in the United Kingdom or anywhere else, in training as much as on race day.
That depends on the formula, how long you want to be covered and whether you take the Competition option. The AxeoSport online quote works out your price in minutes, with no commitment.