Founders' Chal

23rd Founders' Challenge, Saturday 5th October 2019

Welcome to the 23rd Founders' Challenge walk Saturday 5th October 2019 - 30 and 19 mile options There will be 2 new routes of 30 and 19 miles: for the first time the event will start and finish in Guildford. In 2019 the walk will be in an anti-clockwise direction, the reverse of how it has been, so…

22nd Founders' Challenge, Saturday 13th October 2018

Welcome to the 22nd Founders' Challenge walk Saturday 13 October 2018 - 16 and 27 mile options Start & Finish Peaslake Memorial Hall, Surrey GU5 9RR [Grid ref: GR 086447] Start Times 8.30 to 9.00 for walkers and 10.00 for runners (27 mile route only). Checkpoints There are 3 checkpoints (1 on…

22nd Founders' Challenge Results

Here are the Results of the 22nd Founders Challenge held on the 13th October 2018 www.ldwa.org.uk/results/full_results.php?event_id=169 And here is the Report by the Organiser Gordon Parker Report of the 22nd Founders Challenge 13th October 2018 For a third year we kept the same two routes from…

21st Founders' Challenge, Saturday 14th October 2017

This is the portal from where you can find out everything you need to know about the 2017 Founders' challenge Event completed! Results are in!Click here to get to results page And below to read the report Founders_2017_Report_.pdf Photographs This year, the Founder's Challenge was organised…

20th Founders' Challenge, Saturday 8th October 2016

This is the portal from where you can find out everything you need to know about the 2016 Founders' challenge Event completed!Results are in!Click here to get to results page Photos from the event here (more to follow later):(Courtesy of Peter Aylmer, Hazel Stokes and Nigel Barraclough) For…

19th Founders' Challenge, Saturday 3rd October 2015

This is the portal from where you can find out everything you need to know about the 2015 Founders' challenge Event completed!Results are in!Click here to get to results page Photos from the event here (more to follow later): In October each year LDWA London organises a challenge event…

18th Founders' Challenge, Sunday 19th October 2014

In October each year we organise a 26 mile challenge event based at Peaslake in Surrey with a 26 mile route (1,100m ascent) and a shorter route which this year will be a route of approx. 17 miles with 640m ascent. Entry in advance costs £7 for LDWA members & £10 for non-members. The event was…

17th Founders' Challenge, Sunday 20th October 2013

16th Founders' Challenge, Sunday 14th October 2012

In October each year we organise a 26 mile challenge event based at Peaslake in Surrey. Click here for 2012 Founders Challenge 18 mile route map/trackfiles Click here for 2012 Founders Challenge 26 mile route map/trackfiles The event was first held in 1997, when it was called the Founders…

15th Founders' Challenge, Sunday 23rd October 2011

On the 3rd weekend in October annually we organise a 26 mile challenge event based at Peaslake in Surrey. The event was first held in 1997, when it was called the Founders Jubilee Challenge. Tony Youngs devised the 26 mile route as a commemoration of the founding of the LDWA and the role of Alan…

14th, 13th, 12th, 11th Founders' Challenges, 2010 - 2007

14th FOUNDERS' CHALLENGE, SUNDAY 24TH OCTOBER 2010 Report and Results 13th FOUNDERS' CHALLENGE, SUNDAY 18TH OCTOBER 2009 The 13th edition of the Founders' Challenge saw us breaking some new ground, with a new 16 mile route, and the introduction of lifts to and from Guildford station to…

Founders' Challenge Event Statistics since 2004

Entries Starters Finishers 2016 27 mile 82+51 runners 62+41 runners 62+37 runners 2016 16 mile 50 34 33 2015 27 mile 70+41 runners 55+34 runners 53+33 runners 2015 16 mile 41 41 38 2014 27 mile 72+45 runners 61+30 runners 61+29 runners 2014 17 mile 61 59 58 2013 26 mile 98+49…