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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wed 18th - Sat 21st Sep 2019 | 34th Welsh International Four Days' Walks | Challenge | 20 or 12ml. | (Non LDWA) |
| Sat 21st Sep 2019 | Cotswold Challenge - Event Details Updated | Challenge | 26.4 or 18ml. | Bristol & West |
| Sat 21st - Sun 22nd Sep 2019 | Laich o' Moray 50 | Challenge | 51ml. | North West Grampian |
| Sat 21st Sep 2019 | Mardale Magic - Event Cancelled | Challenge | 21.4ml. | Cumbria |
| Sat 21st Sep 2019 | One Foot in the Gargrave | Challenge | 23ml. | West Yorkshire |
| Sat 21st Sep 2019 | Open to Offas - Event Cancelled | Challenge | 30, 21 or 14ml. | Merseystride |
| Sat 21st - Sun 22nd Sep 2019 | Sussex Stride. | Challenge | 51ml. | Sussex |
| Sat 28th Sep 2019 | Beat the Beacons Challenge Walk | Challenge | 22, 15 or 10ml. | (Non LDWA) |
| Sat 28th Sep 2019 | Lakeland Four Passes | Challenge | 19ml. | (Non LDWA) |
| Sun 29th Sep 2019 | Five Valleys Walk 2019 | Challenge | 21ml. | (Non LDWA) |
| Sat 5th Oct 2019 | 23rd Founders’ Challenge walk - Event Details Updated | Challenge | 30 or 19ml. | London |
| Sat 5th Oct 2019 | Kerry Hills Challenge Walk | Challenge | 19ml. | (Non LDWA) |
| Sat 5th Oct 2019 | Lets Run Adventures Pathfinder Challenge Hike | Challenge | 25 or 15ml. | (Non LDWA) |
| Sat 5th Oct 2019 | Saltmarsh Ultra | Challenge | 50ml. | (Non LDWA) |
| Sat 5th Oct 2019 | Three Circles of Crickhowell / Tri Cylch o Crughywel | Challenge | 31, 26, 22, 17, 14 or 9 / 5ml. | South Wales |
| Sun 6th Oct 2019 | Flower of Suffolk 2019 | Challenge | 26 or 18ml. | Norfolk & Suffolk |
| Sun 6th Oct 2019 | Wylye Valley Kanter | Challenge | 25, 19, 12 or 6ml. | (Non LDWA) |
| Sat 12th Oct 2019 | 2019 Bassetlaw Bash | Challenge | 26 or 20ml. | Vermuyden |
| Sat 12th Oct 2019 | Rowbotham's Round Rotherham | Challenge | 50ml. | (Non LDWA) |
| Sun 13th Oct 2019 | 12th Spires & Steeples Challenge | Challenge | 26 or 13ml. | (Non LDWA) |
| Sat 19th Oct 2019 | 20th Dave Lewis Challenge | Challenge | 27.5 or 11.5ml. | (Non LDWA) |
| Sun 20th Oct 2019 | Goyt Valley Challenge | Challenge | 24.5 or 13.2ml. | High Peak |
| Sat 26th Oct 2019 | 23rd Blackwater Marathon | Challenge | 26.2, 18 or 13ml. | Essex & Herts |
| Sat 2nd Nov 2019 | Kilburn Kanter | Challenge | 24ml. | North Yorkshire |
| Sat 9th Nov 2019 | Six Dales Circuit - 21st Anniversary - Event Details Updated | Challenge | 25ml. | Staffordshire |
| Sun 17th Nov 2019 | Steppingley Step | Challenge | 26, 18 or 12ml. | Beds, Bucks & N'hants |
| Sun 17th Nov 2019 | Wensleydale Wedge | Challenge | 24ml. | Nidderdale |
| Sat 23rd - Sun 24th Nov 2019 | 28th Real Ale Ramble | Challenge | 20 or 12ml. | (Non LDWA) |
| Sun 24th Nov 2019 | 36th Gatliff Marathon - Event Details Updated | Challenge | 31.5 or 15ml. | (Non LDWA) |
| Sat 30th Nov 2019 | Christmas Cracker | Challenge | 25, 15, 10 or 5ml. | (Non LDWA) |
| Sat 7th - Sun 8th Dec 2019 | 50th Tour de Trigs | Challenge | 50, 30 or 15ml. | (Non LDWA) |
| Sat 7th Dec 2019 | Rudolph's Romp | Challenge | 25ml. | East Yorkshire |
| Sat 7th Dec 2019 | The Regular Irregular | Challenge | 23, 19, 16, 12, 7 or 4ml. | The Irregulars |
