Love Rugby Festival

The Love Rugby Festival will take place from 20 June to 6 July, coinciding with Rugby School’s Festival on The Close and Warwickshire Open Studios’ annual Summer Art Weeks festival.

In addition to the programme of cultural and sporting events and activities, the Love Rugby Festival includes a ‘couch to 5k’ fun run through the town centre, finishing at Whitehall Recreation Ground.

We plan to announce the full Love Rugby Festival line-up once details have been finalised.

Couch to 5k

LACE-UP your running shoes in readiness for this summer's Love Rugby Festival Couch to 5K run.

The five-kilometre run starts and finishes at Whitehall Recreation Ground on Sunday 6 July, with the route through the town centre taking in iconic landmarks such as Rugby School, Caldecott Park and the Clock Tower.

Registration opens on Friday 16 May.

Couch to 5K forms part of the NHS' Better Health programme and aims to guide novices from the couch to running five kilometres, one step at a time.

To support the run, the council opens the Rugby Athletics Track for free training sessions from 7am to 9am and 9pm to 10pm, Monday to Friday, from now until the day of the run.

Runners just need to register attendance at the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Centre before taking to the track.

The NHS has a free Couch to 5K app you can download from your app store which takes you through the nine-week programme.