The registration fee for the half marathon is £20. You pay your registration fee online upon completing the registration form. The registration fee is non-refundable.

We ask everyone to pledge to raise £250 to support people living with cancer. Click on Your Hike in the navigation bar where we have lots of useful information and resources to help you get started.

The deadline to register for the Giants Causeway Mighty Hike 11th June 2021 or when the event sells out.

There is a 10% discount on the registration fee for teams of 5+. The discount code is generated when you complete the registration form which you need to enter in the promotional code box before proceeding to payment.

1. Appoint a Team Captain who will complete the first online registration. N.B. the Team Captain will receive essential information about your team registration so must be someone who can easily access their emails and is happy to coordinate the team.
2. Make sure the Team Captain has a list of all the names and email addresses of the people in the team before registering. Once the Team Captain has completed the first online registration, each team member will receive an invitation email to complete their own online registration.
3. The Team Captain can pay the registration fee for as many members of the team as they like or just themselves. If the Team Captain doesn’t pay your registration fee you will be asked to pay this when you complete your own registration form.
4. On the booking form, the Team Captain will choose the start time which will be reserved for the whole team.
5. The Team Captain will also choose their parking and shuttle arrangements; however, this does not apply to the whole team. Each team member will be asked to choose their personal parking and shuttle arrangements upon registration.
6. Once the Team Captain has completed the team registration, all members of the team will receive an invitation email with a link to their own registration form.
7. Please complete your registration and booking form as soon as possible. We will hold your team start time but parking is allocated on a first-come first-served basis.
8. The Team Captain will receive a confirmation email each time a member of the team completes their registration, which will allow you to monitor who has and has not joined the team.

The Team Captain will receive a unique registration link in their confirmation email which can be forwarded on to any new individual who wants to join the team. Please note that the team start time may not be available if all places have been filled.

Yes, you will need to raise the minimum fundraising amount of £250 for each member of your team. You can, however, choose to split the total in any way you like between the team if some people are comfortable raising more than others.

The half marathon starts at Larrybane Quarry & Field, Ballycastle BT54 6LS. See it on this Google map.

The half marathon finishes at Bushmills Football pitch, Dundarave Road, Antrim, Bushmills, BT57 8SD. See it on this Google map.

You can see the half marathon route on this Google map.

Parking is available at the satellite car park at Ulster Univeristy, and you can book this through the registration form. Complimentary shuttles will be running from the car park to the start in the morning, and then from the finish back to the car park until 5pm.

Public buses will take you to the start venue from Ballycastle or Coleraine. Or it's a 30-minute taxi ride from Coleraine train station to the start at Larrybane Quarry, and then a 15-minute taxi ride from the finish back to Coleraine station.

The hike will start in waves 20 minutes apart, between 8.30am and 8.50am.

Registration will be open between 5pm and 8pm on the Friday before the event, and will re-open between 5.30am and 7.50am on event day.

We ask everyone to arrive one hour before their start time and no earlier.

We estimate that the fastest half marathon walkers will finish in 4 hours while the slowest walkers could take around 6 hours. Due to venue restrictions we have to start closing our finish area at 6pm.

Therefore, when you choose your start time, please select an earlier wave if you consider yourself a slower walker and a later wave if you consider yourself a faster walker.