Last updated 27 May  2026

The annual 100 mile event is the LDWA's flagship event. Held every year in a different part of the country, to coincide with the late May Bank Holiday, up to 500 people gather to walk 100 miles in 48 hours. In order to enter all these people will have completed a qualifying event beforehand. The first 100 mile event held was the Downsman 100 in 1973. There have been two years without a hundred mile event: 2001 when foot and mouth closed the countryside, and 2020 when COVID-19 prevented the actual event taking place.  It was remembered in this Souvenir Storyboard. COVID-19 also affected the 2021 event which was run as a virtual 100. 

The LDWA Media Team has been busy.  YouTube has a rich selection of videos from 100s and other LDWA events, while Flickr offers quantities of photos.  Two YouTube clips record David Morgan's 100 completions in 2021 and 2022.

• The 2025 Flower of Suffolk Hundred was hosted by Norfolk & Suffolk Group, the first time the 100 had visited East Anglia.

Future 100s:

• In 2026 Kent, Sussex and a touch of Surrey will feature on the Hunnypot Hundred.
• Cornwall and Devon Group will organise the Jurassic Hundred in 2027.
• The Peak District is the location of the 2028 Millstone Hundred, organised by High Peak Group.
• Heart of England Group has chosen 2029 to put on a very different 100 from the EBB 100 in 2023. Tewkesbury looks likely to be the HQ with forays into both the Cotswold and Malvern Hills.
• With a welcome return to the Lake District, Lakeland Group will be putting on the Wainwright 100 in 2030. This will be the 100th anniversary of Alfred Wainwright’s first visit to the Lakes in June 1930 when he climbed Orrest Head and became spellbound by the 360° panorama of iconic fells. As we know, this pivotal experience profoundly impacted not only his future but also the whole of the Lake District’s future and most of ours as well!

Route descriptions for previous events, together with the results and the certificates have been archived here.  Each event has its own unique badge and logo.  Badges awarded can be viewed here.

The 100 mile event is also amusingly described in Out On Your Feet: The Hallucinatory World of Hundred-Mile Walking by Julie Welch. Out On Your Feet is the story of what happened: of the 50-mile walks she took part in to build up to the big day; the singular, admirable, often eccentric and above all tough-as-old-boots members of the long-distance fraternity; and finally the full wonder, pain, horror, exhilaration, even hallucination of walking a Hundred. (With fatigue as a constant travel companion, the mind will play tricks.)