Trail Running calendar near Powburn 2025-2026

The Whinlatter Forest Half Marathon & 10K, held in May 2026, is a challenging trail running event set in the scenic Whinlatter Forest within the Lake District National Park. The half marathon covers 13.1 miles featuring tough elevation, steep climbs, and fast descents, while the 10K offers a 6.2-mil..

The Samaritans Way Ultra is a trail running event held at Guisborough Rugby Club, featuring two race distances: a 40km marathon and a 60km ultra marathon. The course follows the Official Samaritans Way, a trail created by Teesside Samaritans, with updated routes for 2026. The event supports Teesside..

The Pooley Bridge Wild Trail Runs, held in the scenic village of Pooley Bridge at the northern tip of Ullswater in the Lake District, offer a memorable trail running experience on June 13, 2026. Runners can choose between a Half Marathon (13.1 miles/21.1 km) and a 10km trail run, both set against st..

Hardmoors 26.2: Wainstones is a Trail Marathon event in the Hardmoors 26.2 Series, based at Chop Gate Village Hall in North Yorkshire. Runners choose from three circular routes starting and finishing at the hall: Marathon (about 28.5 miles), Half Marathon (about 16.5 miles), and a 10k (about 9.5 mil..

SCOTT Sports Summer Cheviot Goat is a challenging 50-mile (ish) ultramarathon staged by Cold Brew Events in the Cheviot Hills of Northumberland. The route loops through remote border-country terrain, starting from Ingram Village Hall (Ingram, NE66 4LU), touted as England's loneliest ultra. Runners f..

The Hopper 6,12 & 24 hr Trail Race takes place at Hamsterley Forest in County Durham, England. Runners tackle repeats of a 4.2-mile loop, with around 660 feet of elevation gain per lap, allowing participants to accumulate distance across time-based events. The program includes solo 6-, 12-, and 24-h..

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..

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..

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..

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..

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..

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..

The Saturn 7 Hour Time Challenge in Durham is a trail running event held at the Durham Amateur Rowing Club along the scenic River Wear, offering views of the Cathedral. Participants can run laps of approximately 4.37 miles (7 km), with options to complete distances from a minimum of 3 km up to ultra..