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 27th Jul - Fri 2nd Aug 2019 | John o' Groats Trail Caithness Section | Challenge | 68ml. | (Non LDWA) |
| Sat 27th Jul 2019 | The Wye Trail | Challenge | 30ml. | (Non LDWA) |
| Sat 3rd Aug 2019 | Bishop's Castle Challenge Walk | Challenge | 24, 13 or 11ml. | (Non LDWA) |
| Sat 3rd Aug 2019 | The 2019 Elsecar Skelter | Challenge | 27, 21 or 15ml. | Vermuyden |
| Sun 4th Aug 2019 | Dovedale Dipper | Challenge | 27 or 15ml. | (Non LDWA) |
| Sun 11th Aug 2019 | Birmingham Canal Canter | Challenge | 26.2 or 18ml. | Heart of England |
| Sun 11th Aug 2019 | Lets Run Adventures Hanging Stone Leap | Challenge | 24 or 14ml. | (Non LDWA) |
| Wed 14th Aug 2019 | Shipton Star | Challenge | 25, 21, 18, 15 or 12ml. | (Non LDWA) |
| Sat 17th Aug 2019 | Brendon Incline - Event Details Updated | Challenge | 33 or 25ml. | Cornwall & Devon |
| Sun 18th Aug 2019 | Dorset Doddle | Challenge | 32ml. | Dorset |
| Sat 24th Aug 2019 | 32nd Smugglers Trod | Challenge | 25 or 17ml. | Yorkshire Coast |
| Sat 24th - Sun 25th Aug 2019 | Laich o' Moray 50 (Marshals' Walk) | Challenge | 51ml. | North West Grampian |
| Sat 24th Aug 2019 | White Cliffs Challenge | Challenge | 32 or 18ml. | Kent |
| Sat 31st Aug - Sun 1st Sep 2019 | Peak District 50 & 33 | Challenge | 50 or 33ml. | (Non LDWA) |
| Sat 31st Aug 2019 | The Lincolnshire Harvest Hobble | Challenge | 26 or 13ml. | Lincolnshire |
| Sat 7th Sep 2019 | 56th Across Wales Walk | Challenge | 45ml. | (Non LDWA) |
| Sat 7th - Sun 8th Sep 2019 | The Bullock Smithy Hike | Challenge | 56ml. | (Non LDWA) |
| Sun 8th Sep 2019 | Chagford Challenge 2019 | Challenge | 30, 21 or 17ml. | Cornwall & Devon |
| Sat 14th Sep 2019 | 13th Tour des Marches (Formally Wistanstow Challenge) | Challenge | 26, 18 or 12ml. | Marches |
| Sat 14th - Sun 15th Sep 2019 | 3rd Red Rose 50 | Challenge | 50ml. | East Lancashire |
| Sat 14th Sep 2019 | Forest Marathon | Challenge | 26.2, 17, 13.1 or 6.2ml. | (Non LDWA) |
| Sat 14th Sep 2019 | In Pendle's Shadow | Challenge | 20 or 11ml. | (Non LDWA) |
| Sat 14th - Sun 15th Sep 2019 | Shotley Peninsula 50 | Challenge | 52ml. | Essex & Herts |
| Sun 15th Sep 2019 | The Ponton Plod | Challenge | 27, 17 or 12ml. | (Non LDWA) |
| 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 | Challenge | 21.4ml. | Cumbria |
| Sat 21st Sep 2019 | One Foot in the Gargrave | Challenge | 23ml. | West Yorkshire |
| Sat 21st Sep 2019 | Open to Offas | 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 |
| 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) |
