Peak District Challenge 2025

The Peak District Challenge is a trail running or trekking challenge that offers five levels of difficulty: 25km (Copper) 50km (Bronze) 75km (Silver) 100km (Gold Ultra) 100miles in 24 hours.

Each distance has a target time to try to beat, from 9 hours to hike 25km, up to 24 hours to run the huge 100mile Ultra Peak District Challenge.

Support and refreshments, motivation and encouragement are provided at Checkpoints with water top ups and refreshments.

Checkpoints are spread out every 10km around the course on average. A stew supper on Saturday evening is all included in the price of your entry.

A professional, qualified safety teams monitor teams' safety throughout. Each team’s GPS tracker allows HQ to see each team’s exact location at any time, at any point around your challenge route, not just at checkpoints.

Teams can self-navigate using a printed route-guides and GPX files, or join a led walking group accompanied by a fully qualified mountain leader.

The routes all start at Hathersage and are anticlockwise loops.