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Challenge Running Ltd Trail Running Event organiser. home of the UK's largest Backyard Ultra and other ultra distance races.

Hi all entries for this year's St Peter's Way event will close tomorrow night at midnight. If you plan to run we need yo...
07/02/2026

Hi all entries for this year's St Peter's Way event will close tomorrow night at midnight.

If you plan to run we need you to enter by then.
If you need the bus and have not booked the bus please do so soon.

Lindley

Hi all update on the missing Peddars Way Medals. I managed to get the medals finally and we will start shipping out on M...
06/02/2026

Hi all update on the missing Peddars Way Medals.

I managed to get the medals finally and we will start shipping out on Monday.

Any T shirts we are posting out will go Monday too. For those who forgot and have asked us to post on.

Apologies again.

Obviously entries are open for next year and the 1st 25 entries get a discounted price.

Lindley

Big, big shout out to the fabulous volunteers at Sunday’s Peddars Way Ultra.Each a small but mighty cog in the machine e...
03/02/2026

Big, big shout out to the fabulous volunteers at Sunday’s Peddars Way Ultra.
Each a small but mighty cog in the machine ensuring the event goes smooth and without which events like these just cannot happened.

Please take a moment to thank in no particular order; Mandy Miles, Will Everitt, Emma Marsh, Andy Payne, Jim Comber, Kieron Davies, Nathan Roulson and Jason Fabien.

And not forgetting our Trail Team on the event who took time out pre- event to ensure the path was in decent ‘nick ahead of the day, Adam Toyne and Ruth Martin.

Thank you!

Well done to everyone who took part in today's Peddars Way Ultra. It was a huge success thanks to all the runners and th...
01/02/2026

Well done to everyone who took part in today's Peddars Way Ultra.

It was a huge success thanks to all the runners and the volunteers.

Full results are here or via our results page on the website.

https://www.webscorer.com/race?raceid=419975

1st three male and female runners in the photos.

A little bit of drama at the end with the final runner scraping in 24 seconds inside the cutoff!

I will do a report at some point over the next few days.

Thanks again to all taking part, we hope you had a great day.

Lindley and the team.

Hi all, I hope you are looking forward to tomorrows event.I am writing to you to inform you of an issue with our deliver...
31/01/2026

Hi all, I hope you are looking forward to tomorrows event.

I am writing to you to inform you of an issue with our delivery of medals for this race, they were meant to be delivered to our office last week but Royal Mail have severely screwed up the delivery!

They tried to deliver saturday morning when our office was closed, they then attempted 2 very late at night deliveries hours after our office address is closed despite it being an obvious business address.

Then the postie did go to the office address on Thursday when reception staff were in but he then refused to hand the parcel over to staff on reception despite them confirming they would recieve it and sign for it and they were the reception staff for a shared office building.

It was an agency postie they had not seen before and they normally take in hundreds of royal mail parcels each day for the businesses registered there.

I then arranged through the post office tracking app for the parcel to be redirected to a local post office as surely they could not screw up finiding one of their own post offices! This was confirmed on their tracking system as due to be delivered today (Saturday) at my post office of choice.

This has obviously not happended and the parcel is still showing on tracking as due to be delivered today but that post office closes early at 1pm.

If anyone knows the post office tracking system, there is no way for me to chase this and I just have to see when/if it's delivered in the next few days!

So unfortunately we only have a few spare medals from last year and once we have handed those out we will not have any to hand out.

We will keep a couple held back at the finish so people can take finish line images at the end and then we will post out individually once they are delivered or if they are missing we will get a fresh batch made up and sent direct.

Apologies for this, feel free to swear loudly as that is what I have been doing!

See you tomorrow

Lindley

Hi guys we are looking forward to seeing some of you tomorrow at the Peddars Way Ultra Start. I have just had a quick ch...
31/01/2026

Hi guys we are looking forward to seeing some of you tomorrow at the Peddars Way Ultra Start.

I have just had a quick check on the boardwalk section 3km from the start after having more rain than forecast this week.

It's all fine and only a couple of small sections that are underwater by a few inches. See photos.

Unless we get the type of rain overnight that has Noah heading off to B&Q it will be fine for tomorrow.

See you there at the start.

If you are on the bus don't be late as it leaves at 6am whether you are on it or not. You should be at the car park and ready to walk up to the bus by 5:50.

Lindley and the team.

Hi all we have just launched our new summer 24 hour event at Thetford. 11th of JulyThe Thetford 24 hour. We have 6 and 1...
30/01/2026

Hi all we have just launched our new summer 24 hour event at Thetford.

11th of July

The Thetford 24 hour.

We have 6 and 12 hour options also.

Solo, pairs (single s*x and mixed) and teams of up to 4 (same s*x and mixed options again)

We are limited to 150 runners on course as July is busy in the forest. So once we have any combination of solo, pairs or teams that reaches 150 runners we will close entries.

Free camping overnight, discounted parking, toilets, first aid, bespoke wooden medal and a t-shirt purchase option.

All info on the website https://www.challenge-running.com/e/thetford-24-hour-14872

Prices are on the website and it's priced to be competitive.

Same flat and fast scenic course as our backyard events.

Trophies for each category.

Lindley

New Shirt/Hoodie design and medal design for the new distances at the Thames Ring events.Let us know what you think.Lind...
29/01/2026

New Shirt/Hoodie design and medal design for the new distances at the Thames Ring events.

Let us know what you think.

Lindley

Hi all. 1 week to go to the Peddars Way Ultra. Reminder email sent to all runners this evening, website updated and all ...
25/01/2026

Hi all. 1 week to go to the Peddars Way Ultra.

Reminder email sent to all runners this evening, website updated and all info correct for the weekend.

Check your emails and read the website info before the race.

I checked out the boardwalk section today and it's a little wet in places but less than the last couple of years and while you may get your feet wet you won't need to swim!

See you next week,

Lindley

Hi all, entries have now closed for Peddars Way on the 1st of February. BUT we still need a few more volunteers event. W...
20/01/2026

Hi all, entries have now closed for Peddars Way on the 1st of February.

BUT we still need a few more volunteers event.

We need someone to help load the bus in Holme at 5:30am and they can just do that or come and help elsewhere on the rest of the race or just at the finish from 1pm if you are local.

We need another person at CP2 in castle acre from 10:30am.

We need a couple more people to run the kitchen and finish at Holme next the sea from 1pm.

If you can help us please go to the volunteer page on the website and fill in the form.

You will obviously earn volunteer points to spend on race entries in the future.

https://www.challenge-running.com/contents/3109-volunteers

Lindley

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