Course & Elevation
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.
Course Facts
Weather
Typical climate for the race month — an estimate, not a forecast or a race-day record
25°C
Temperature
60%
Humidity
1%
Rain Chance
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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