A Challenge Event is a walk mostly on footpaths and other Public Rights of Way (PROWs), across open fields and moors, avoiding tarmac as much as possible. The challenge is to the individual, e.g. 30 miles in 10 hours, it is NOT a race. The distances include at least one option over 20 miles - commonly 25, 26.2 ( Marathon) - with walks over 50 miles, e.g. 62 miles (100 kilometres) in 26 hours giving qualification for the LDWA's 'flagship' Event, held over the Spring Bank Holiday weekend in a different part of the country each year, namely, a Hundred Miles in 48 hours, with a limit of 500 participants.
By default this page shows a summary of all LDWA events occurring in the next 90 days. Please use the following options to choose the types of events you wish to see, then click on either the Show as Map or Show as List buttons. To see all events just click on one of the buttons without setting any options. To remove all options use the Clear button.
Date |
Name |
Type |
Mileage | Organiser |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 11th Jul 2020 | Hallow 12 Parish Challenge - Event Cancelled | Challenge | 40, 26, 18, 14 or 10ml. | (Non LDWA) |
| Sun 12th Jul 2020 | High Weald Walk - Event Cancelled | Challenge | 26+, 20 or 15ml. | Kent |
| Sat 18th Jul 2020 | Monks Trod Pilgrimage - Event Cancelled | Challenge | 25ml. | (Non LDWA) |
| Sat 25th Jul 2020 | Denholme Doddle - Event Postponed | Challenge | 27, 21 or 17ml. | (Non LDWA) |
| Fri 31st Jul 2020 | Chairman's Challenge July 1st - 31st 2020 - Entries Still Open | Challenge | 100ml. | LDWA Independent Events |
| Sat 1st Aug 2020 | Bishop's Castle Challenge Walk - Event Cancelled | Challenge | 24, 13 or 11ml. | (Non LDWA) |
| Sat 1st Aug 2020 | The 2020 Elsecar Skelter - Event Cancelled | Challenge | 27, 21 or 15ml. | Vermuyden |
| Sun 2nd Aug 2020 | Dovedale Dipper - Event Cancelled | Challenge | 27 or 15ml. | (Non LDWA) |
| Sat 8th Aug 2020 | Open to Offas - Event Cancelled | Challenge | 23 or 14ml. | Merseystride |
| Sun 9th Aug 2020 | Birmingham Canal Canter - Event Cancelled | Challenge | 26.2 or 18ml. | Heart of England |
| Wed 12th Aug 2020 | Shipton Star | Challenge | 25, 21, 18, 15 or 12ml. | (Non LDWA) |
| Sun 23rd Aug 2020 | Dorset Doddle - Event Cancelled | Challenge | 32ml. | Dorset |
| Sat 29th Aug 2020 | 33rd Smugglers Trod - Event Cancelled | Challenge | 25 or 17ml. | Yorkshire Coast |
| Sat 29th Aug 2020 | White Cliffs Challenge - Event Cancelled | Challenge | 30 or 18ml. | Kent |
| Sat 5th Sep 2020 | 57th Across Wales Walk | Challenge | 45ml. | (Non LDWA) |
| Sat 5th - Sun 6th Sep 2020 | The Bullock Smithy Hike | Challenge | 56ml. | (Non LDWA) |
| Sat 5th - Sun 6th Sep 2020 | Three Forest Way 2020 - Event Cancelled | Challenge | 54ml. | Essex & Herts |
| Sat 12th Sep 2020 | 13th Tour des Marches (Formally Wistanstow Challenge) | Challenge | 26, 18 or 12ml. | Marches |
| Sat 12th Sep 2020 | Beat the Beacons Challenge Walk - Event Cancelled | Challenge | 22, 15 or 10ml. | (Non LDWA) |
| Sat 12th Sep 2020 | One Foot in the Gargrave - Event Cancelled | Challenge | 23ml. | West Yorkshire |
| Sun 13th Sep 2020 | 49th Chiltern Marathon - Event Cancelled | Challenge | c26ml. | Thames Valley |
| Sun 13th Sep 2020 | The Ponton Plod | Challenge | 27, 17 or 12ml. | (Non LDWA) |
| Wed 16th - Sat 19th Sep 2020 | 35th Welsh International Four Days' Walks | Challenge | 20 or 12ml. | (Non LDWA) |
| Fri 18th - Sun 20th Sep 2020 | National Forest Trek | Challenge | 75, 40 or 25ml. | (Non LDWA) |
| Sat 19th Sep 2020 | Cotswold Challenge - Event Cancelled | Challenge | 26.4 or 18ml. | Bristol & West |
| Sat 19th Sep 2020 | Forest Marathon | Challenge | 26.2, 17, 13.1 or 6.2ml. | (Non LDWA) |
| Sat 19th - Sun 20th Sep 2020 | Surrey Tops - Event Cancelled | Challenge | 50ml. | Surrey |
| Sun 20th Sep 2020 | The 10th Peelers' Hike - New Date | Challenge | 23 or 15ml. | (Non LDWA) |
| Sat 26th Sep 2020 | Corvedale Cake Walk - New Date | Challenge | 22, 14 or 10ml. | Marches |
| Sat 3rd Oct 2020 | Saltmarsh Ultra | Challenge | 52.4ml. | (Non LDWA) |
| Sat 3rd Oct 2020 | Three Circles of Machen - Event Cancelled | Challenge | 30, 22, 20, 18,12, 10 or 8ml. | South Wales |
| Sun 4th Oct 2020 | Flower of Suffolk 2020 | Challenge | 26 or 18ml. | Norfolk & Suffolk |
| Sun 4th Oct 2020 | Wylye Valley Kanter | Challenge | 25, 19, 12 or 6ml. | (Non LDWA) |
