AROUND 2,400 people finished the Severn Bridge Half Marathon today which returned for its second year after being voted Best New Race in 2014.

Nikola Morgan, one of the organisers, said the race “went fantastically, it was absolutely brilliant” with a record number of runners after 2,800 people registered.

The winner of the race was long-distance and Commonwealth Games runner Steve Way, who completed the course in just one hour, 12 minutes and 39 seconds.

Last year’s winner, Stephen Patterson from Les Croupiers Running Club in Cardiff, came third in this year’s race.

The run started on the Chepstow end of the ‘old’ Severn Bridge on the M48 motorway, looped through villages in England before coming back over the bridge.

Ms Morgan said; “The weather was really, really good for it. It was overcast and dry, not too hot and not too windy. Perfect running conditions.”

The race was run by both first timers and experienced club runners, and three hours after the set-off time runners were still completing the race.

The run, which was only launched last year, was voted Best New Race in the Runners World Personal Best awards.

Ms Morgan said the organisers “very much hope it will come back next year”.