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The Darwin Runners & Walkers Half Marathon, known as the DRW Half Marathon, is a 21 km club race held in July at Lake Alexander in East Point Reserve, Darwin, in the Northern Territory. It is organised by Darwin Runners & Walkers Inc., a club that traces its roots to a senior athletics club in Darwin in the 1960s. The race starts at 7:00 a.m. The course is four laps that start and finish at the car park at Lake Alexander, and runners can enter solo or as part of a relay team of two or four. Lake Alexander is a man-made lake that draws its seawater from nearby Fannie Bay and was officially opened on 21 July 1991. The Darwin half marathon has traditionally been run in July. Darwin also had a full marathon, first run in the late 1960s, and the last one was held on 11 July 1999 from Marrara Stadium.
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July is the middle of Darwin's dry season: the average high is about 31°C and the low about 19°C, with almost no rain, and the average 9 a.m. relative humidity is about 60%.
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Darwin Runners & Walkers Inc. has links to a senior athletics club that existed in Darwin in the 1960s. In 1964/65 a club called the Beltanas existed in Darwin, later renaming itself the Waratahs so that runners could use the old Waratah oval in Fannie Bay. By 1981 the name Darwin Athletic Club was in use, in 2000 it became Darwin Runners & Walkers Club, and in September 2001 it became an incorporated association.
The Darwin Marathon was run in September until 1984, a period of increasing humidity. In 1985 it moved to July, which the club considered more comfortable. The marathon regularly drew 30 to 40 runners in the 1980s, and after interest declined in the late 1990s the last one was held on 11 July 1999, while half marathons stayed popular.
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