Peak District Ultra Challenge®
The event is based around a Bakewell basecamp in the Southern Peak District and offers multiple route options across Derbyshire countryside. The basecamp includes camping, car parking, transfers, hospitality and a bar. The organiser expects over 3,000 participants across the weekend.
Route options include:
- 100 km loop
- 50 km loop
- 25 km loop
- 10 mile option in Bakewell
The route is fully signed with hundreds of pink arrows and glow sticks for night sections. An event app provides GPS tracking and Google route maps, and a timing system logs scans at rest stops. Covered rest stops are placed roughly every 12.5 km with larger marquee rest stops approximately every 25 km. Rest stops include catering, seating, changing areas, medical and welfare tents, and massage services.
Food and drink are provided throughout the route with snacks and drink stops every 12.5 km and a meal roughly every 25 km. The event offers medical staff, paramedics, podiatrists, massage teams, and a 24 hour control room with mobile emergency teams. Camping packages include showers and chill out areas for those using the multi day options.
Participants receive a finisher medal, a T shirt, a glass of fizz and a finisher meal, and can download an official challenge certificate after completion. There are also solo start, Ultra March and Trailblazerz options and provisions for corporate teams. Visit the organization's website for the most recent information.
The Ultra Challenge Experience
Endurance events for a wide range of fitness & ages and the UK’s #1 series of treks & trail runs. Choose your Challenge – do it at your pace, and there are 20 events in the Series. Our support enables you to go further, whilst enjoying the great outdoors & camaraderie.There are marquee rest stops, lots of food & drink, medical & massage teams, with a fully signed route & GPS tracking to guide you. A big finish-line celebration awaits with an amazing sense of achievement, and once the aches subside you’ll feel energised, and up for more of life’s challenges!
Before your Challenge
Good preparation & smart planning are key, and from the moment you sign up you’ll have access to our Challenge App – with training guides, optional training walks, maps, online forums, and the latest news & updates.
Covered Rest Stops
Rest Stops every ~12.5 km with ‘major’ ones every ~25 km, and are much more than the shaky gazebo with water that you see on some events. We’ve marquee cover, large medical & welfare tents, catering services, seating areas for recovery, changing rooms, and a friendly welcome!
Signed Route & GPS Tracking
00’s of pink arrows + glow-sticks (at night) mark the route, and with Google route maps in the App you won’t get lost on an Ultra Challenge®!Our Timing System scans you at rest stops, with your progress logged and monitored by our Control Room.For 2025 – we’ve upgraded our system, with an APP for your mobile with GPS Tracking – which you can share in ‘real time’ with family & friends – without draining your phone’s battery – and you also get all the info on the route lying ahead!
Free Food & Drink
Keeping you well fed & hydrated is key. We pride ourselves on the quantity & quality of our catering, and whichever distance you are on – meals, snacks & drinks are included – so no need to carry much!Snacks & drink stops every 12.5 kmSnacks – from the healthy to treatsMeal / food every 25 kmEnergy drinksAll dietary requirements catered forLighter options for ‘runners’Hot food finishers meal
Camping Packages
We generally have a ~50 km campsite for rest & sleep if you’re on the 2 day ‘Daylight’ 100 km option, or if you finish / start a 50 km ‘half’ Challenge. Book an inclusive package or ‘pitch your own’ – there’re showers and chill out areas.
Medics, Podiatrists, Massage
We’ve experienced Doctors, Paramedics, First Aiders, Podiatrists, and Massage Teams at Rest Stops. There’re ‘Self Help’ areas with blister plasters, talc, Vaseline, and tape if you want to patch your own feet. Our mobile Emergency Medical Teams are only a phone call away, via our 24 hour Control Room