Zig Zag Running
The Birthday Run
Next Race: 17/05/2026
Billingford Lakes, North Elmham Road, NR20 4RG
Overall Rating
4.9/ 5
46 reviews
Phillip Moss
Once again the Zig Zag team have done a outstanding event
Mark Higgins
Excellent
My 6th ZigZag run. Second at Hinchingbrooke. The contrast in ground conditions between this one and the mud bath in February was dramatic!
Claudie Combelas
Fabulous trail laps in Hichinbrooke Park - anything from 5K to ultra
Great organisation. Lovely marshals and helpers. Lots of cakes and hot/cold drinks at the finish. Even catered for GF like myself although the real cakes looked so good! Enjoyed the course, liked that it was varied from woods to gravel paths and a lovely lake. Will be back!
Mark Darling
Great race! Great volunteers! Great post-race massage!
Hannah Stewart-Cairns
Well organised
A very well organised event with great scenery although parts of the course are tricky to navigate when wet or dry. The cake and coffee after is always a win! For those that say about the parking being expensive, there is a train station car park which is £3.70 for all day on a Sunday. My only gripe would be that even though I signed up to do a 15k, each lap is longer than 15k so my total distance was 16.18k. The extra distance is fine, but the times in the results don't reflect this.
Maddy Lewis
Really enjoyed the downhill bits!
Lovely route around the park, marshals were very encouraging, cake at the end was divine!
John Steel
Brilliant course, friendly, well organised
This is only the second Zig Zag run i have done, and what I love is how relaxed it all is. I've done my share of races and obsession of pace and time, these are just relaxed and just run, enjoy, what is not to like. Well organised, friendly, great medal.
Susan Collins
Well organised and friendly
Another great event from Zigzagrunning.uk. The high standard of organisation we have come to expect
Karen Alsop-Fox
Fantastic, friendly and the most amazing vegan cake to boot
Raj Gandhi
Excellent organisation, really friendly and inclusive bunch
Will happily attend another event in future. The Zig Zag guys are great and it's nice to meet other runners.
Sophie Head
Warm, welcoming and FUN!!
My first event run and I really enjoyed it. Such a great atmosphere. Signed up for 15km and was greatly encouraged by Stephen to carry on for the half…geared me up with more water and sweets and off I went. All the runners were great and so lovely to be a part of such a friendly community. Thank you
Miranda McWade
Hard trail but fun
It was a good route but found it hard as ground was so dry and lots of ruts/roots in places so had to take it steady for me personally. All ZigZag events are fab
Richard Hart
Perfect
Atmosphere was so relaxed and ideal for all runners
Craig Reast
Just amazing and staff are awesome
Alexandra Roberts
Always well organised and really inclusive events. Well organised and friendly staff and volunteers
Perhaps for parking to be valid for longer than 6 hours. Parking at a hospital is quite expensive!
David Lillywhite
Great event, excellent communication before and after, brilliant atmosphere, innovative format, friendly and fun. And amazing cake (the really important bit). Everyone from 5k runners to the ultra marathoners seemed to love it
Natasha Woodward
Amazing
One of the best events out there
Michael Fagan
always brilliantly run
,ig zag running events are brilliant. everyone is friendly and open to first timers
Heather Hartley
Friendly fun
Ran my first ultra on Sunday but also ran 10k and half marathon with zigzag. Great organisation, friendly team and marshals. Well signposted, good briefing. Great for all levels and distances. Very hot day but the drinks etc were cold and well catered for. The peanut butter pretzels were incredible!! Gutted I don’t have a Costco card lol. Fab cake at the end and omg THAT ice lolly was insane!! Total game changer. Couldn’t get into the toilet at the start but after the first lap had no problem - no queue. Thanks
Rochine Symonds
Fantastic events and hosts as always.