Great Langdale Marathon

A beautiful hilly half and full marathon road run around England's most scenic valleys. The Langdale Marathon and Half Marathon races have the reputation as being amongst the toughest road events in the UK. Exceptionally hilly with some parts of the course climbs being 1:3 this challenging race attracts a both seasoned runners as well a large number of ordinary people looking to challenge themselves. Hosted in the beautiful Langdale valleys the route takes the runners in an anti clockwise direction from Great Langdale to Little Langdale through to picturesque hamlets of Skelwith bridge, Chapel Style and Dungeon Ghyll. With a low key, friendly atmosphere, every one is made welcome by the race organisers Rod and Dorothy Berry.