Trail Running calendar near Ashington 2025-2026

North Yorks Challenge is Ultra Challenge’s coastal-and-moors ultra based in Scarborough, North Yorkshire. The event offers a 100 km loop with ~2,270 m of climb, plus shorter options: 50 km, 25 km, and a Whitby 10-mile loop. The route travels from Scarborough along the coast to Robin Hood’s Bay and W..

The Fountains 10K is a scenic and challenging running event held in Grantley, near Ripon, North Yorkshire. The race features a 10-kilometre undulating, mixed-terrain course that includes quiet country roads, off-road trails, and moorland within Nidderdale. Notable course highlights are the 'Puddle'..

The Saturn 7 Hour Time Challenge in Durham is a trail running event held along the scenic River Wear, offering views of Durham Cathedral. Hosted at the Durham Amateur Rowing Club, the course features a flat, fully signed loop of approximately 4.37 miles (7 km), with options for shorter laps to accom..

Summits of The North York Moors Ultra is a roughly 120-mile circular foot race organized by SilverBackTrails, starting and finishing at Goathland Village Hall in the North York Moors National Park. The route climbs the ten highest hills on the moors, traversing moorland on ancient tracks and trods,..

Beat The Bounds, Patterdale is a boundary-running event in the Ullswater Valley, Patterdale, Cumbria. Participants choose from four distances: the Full Boundary at 28 miles with about 10,200 ft of ascent; the First Half (16 miles) and Second Half (12 miles); and a 7-mile Minibeat for families. The c..

The Blacksheep 3 and 6 Hour Challenge is a trail running event held in Masham, on the edge of the scenic North Yorkshire Dales. Participants can choose to run for either three or six hours, completing as many loops as possible within their chosen time. The course features a mostly flat terrain with..

Wheelbirks Summer 10k Trail is a running event held at Wheelbirks Parlour in Stocksfield, Northumberland. The 10-kilometre course starts and finishes at the ice cream parlour, offering a varied terrain of farm field boundaries, forest and woodland trails, plus steep technical climbs and descents and..

Lakeland Trails Ultra is a Lake District endurance event offering Ultra distances of 100k and 55k, plus 23k and 14k trail runs that share sections with the Ultra routes. Runners start and finish at Rothay Park in Ambleside, with fully waymarked, marshalled courses that showcase dramatic mountain sce..

Lyke Wake Challenge is a 40-mile point-to-point endurance event from Osmotherley to Ravenscar, run by the Quakers Running Club. The route covers moorland, trails, and some road, finishing in the grounds of Raven Hall at Ravenscar. Runners pass seven checkpoints (Carlton Bank, Clay Bank, the Lion Inn..

Eight Stations Ultra is a 30-mile trail ultramarathon organized by The Charm Bracelet Marathon. The course runs from Whitby to Pickering, following the Esk Valley line before linking with the North Yorkshire Moors railway, visiting eight railway stations along the way. The route includes 3,322 feet..

Rab Helvellyn Sky Ultra is a 57-kilometre mountain ultramarathon in the Lake District, starting near Patterdale. The route climbs about 3,700 metres and traverses iconic ridge-lines—Long Stile Edge, Swirral Edge and Striding Edge—making it one of England’s most technically demanding, course-marked r..

Rab Pinnacle Ridge Extreme 2026 is a 28km sky race based in Patterdale in the UNESCO-designated English Lake District, with around 2700m of ascent. The route wraps around the Helvellyn Massif, delivering true skyrunning with technical ground, scrambling on rock, and demanding descents that test both..

St Sunday Sky Race, organized by Lake District Sky Trails, takes place near Patterdale in the Lake District, UK. The 29km route climbs about 2050m, delivering a technical mountain trail over St Sunday Crag and the eastern fells. A classic, stepping-stone Sky Race for those building toward longer adv..

Isaac's Tea Trail Ultra. Backwards is a 37-mile ultra loop starting and finishing in Allendale, with a route through Ninebanks, Alston and Nenthead before returning to Allendale. Staged in the North Pennines AONB (a UNESCO Geopark), the 2026 edition runs the route in reverse from previous years.The..

Lambton Castle Trail Runs take place at Lambton Castle, Chester-le-Street, County Durham, on the private Lambton Estate. The event offers three distances: 5, 10, and 15 miles—the latter combining the other two loops for endurance. Runners traverse a mix of woodland trails, open fields, firm paths, a..

CBTE Morland Half Marathon is a partially self-navigated trail half-marathon organized by The Charm Bracelet Marathon. The course starts and finishes in Morland Village Hall in the Eden Valley near Penrith and features rivers, becks, woodlands, and pastures, using parts of the Morland Marathon route..

The Saturn 7 Hour Time Challenge in Durham is a trail running event held along the scenic River Wear, offering views of Durham Cathedral. Hosted at the Durham Amateur Rowing Club, the course features a flat, fully signed loop of approximately 4.37 miles (7 km), with options for shorter laps to accom..

Malham 10k Trail Race is a 10-kilometre trail event hosted by Due North Events in the Malham Show Field, Malham village (BD23 4DA). It is the third race in the Due North Trail Trilogy and takes runners through iconic landscapes such as Malham Cove and Malham Tarn, with a climb up to Weets Top and a..

Ranger Ultras Yorkshire Pen-Y-Ghent 50k is an off-road ultra-race starting and finishing at Hawes Market House in North Yorkshire. The 50 km course climbs about 1,280 metres along classic limestone trails, following the Cam Road to Horton-in-Ribblesdale before summiting Pen-y-Ghent and returning. Ru..

Yorkshire 3 Peaks Ultra 2026 is an off-road endurance event in North Yorkshire, starting and finishing at Hawes Market House. The classic route covers the limestone trails over the three peaks—Whernside, Ingleborough and Pen-y-Ghent—via the Cam Road, with a standard distance of 70 km and about 2185..