Leighton Hall

All day Car Parking is available from 08:30 at Leighton Hall for a charge of £5 for cars / £6 for vans. Alternatively, fill your car with 4 or more passengers and park for FREE. We prefer payment by card machine, although we can accept cash. Please use our Car Sharing Facebook group HERE to either offer or request a lift. Later in the day, we may change the parking location but the signage will change too!

Please follow What 3 Words yummy.value.detect and then follow our event parking signage and stewards. 

We can only accommodate cars and camper vans up to the size of a VW Transporter.  Please do not bring any vehicles larger than this onto the site, this is due to the parking being on grass. 

There will be no overnight parking or camping available within Leighton Hall grounds. 

Public Transport

Leighton Halls is accessible by bus with a short walk to the venue from the stops. The 552 and 52 buses both drop off in Yealand Conyers, a 12 minute walk to the front gates of Leighton Halls. 

Send us a photo of your public transport ticket for all or part of your journey and we'll award one lucky winner at each event with a FREE ENTRY to a future event. Email your photos HERE

Car Sharing

The environmental impact of travelling by car is much reduced if it's full so why not join up with your friends / running club members to travel together? If your car has 4 or more occupants, parking is FREE! There's always plenty to do in and around our venue and visiting local businesses helps support them too. Visit our Car Share group on Facebook HERE to start planning!

All Race Numbers must be collected from Registration in the main marquee on race day.

Registration opens at 9:00am on Saturday. You can collect your number up to 45 minutes before your allocated start time.

Start Lists won’t be on display in the marquee but will be available above 5 days before the event. We will also confirm your number by email a couple of days before the event.

If you forget what your number is, you can check it on a tablet in Registration.

If you’ve got any questions about your entry, please go to the Enquiries desk on the right-hand side of the main marquee and a friendly face will help you.

There will be a baggage storage adjacent to the main marquee.

Please note there are no entries on the day and entries are not transferrable to another runner. Runners competing with someone else's number will be disqualified and will not be eligible for prizes or appear in the results.

We will also prevent them from taking part in future Lakeland Trails events, such is the safety risk if something were to happen to a person whose details we don’t have on our system.

Start

All contests set off from Leighton Halls. Please see the Event Timetable tab above for start times.

Finish

The finish is under our Lakeland Trails gantry. When you cross the finish line, it’s really important that your whole number is clearly visible so we can give you a shout out and cross check our timing system in case of any queries. Failure to display your number may result in disqualification.

Once you’ve finished, you’ll go through the main marquee. If you've ordered a t-shirt it will be available to collect inside.

If you haven't ordered a t-shirt, please pass straight through the marquee. We have a selection of non event specific merchandise for sale in the marquee.

Results will be available in real-time via our website.

Event T-shirts can be ordered at any time up to 3 weeks before the event. You can add one to your entry online up until midnight on Sunday, 14th September so why not grab yourself a memento of what is sure to be a great day out! 

If you have already ordered one, please check your account HERE to check that it's correct. The design this year is a fetching yellow and can be viewed on our event mailouts and Facebook - it is sure to be popular! If you order one, you will collect your hard earned T-shirt immediately after crossing the finish line! 

Unfortunately, the window for ordering an event specific Cartmel T-shirt has closed. 

If you have already ordered one, please check your account HERE to check that it's correct. 

There will be a range of other Lakeland Trails merch available on the day to purchase as a memento.

All courses will be well marked and marshalled by our magnificent Lakeland Trails volunteers, all of whom work hard to make your run as enjoyable and safe as possible. The courses have a variety of terrain, mainly beautiful, scenic hard packed trails with the occasional muddy section!

Please stay alert on any road sections and keep close to the right hand side. Our marshals don’t have authority to stop traffic, so please be prepared to slow down and wait if necessary.

If you think the terrain is too tricky, it’s fine to slow down or walk and take in the views! Some gates on the course may not be staffed so if you arrive at a closed gate, please close it after you. There are sections of private land which may only be used on race day and please put any litter in your pocket until you reach a bin.

For safety, in ear headphones are not allowed - but we do allow bone conductor headphones which enable peripheral sound to be heard.

Please also be considerate to other trail and road users. We share access with them and we rely on the goodwill of others to make our events possible.

VERY IMPORTANT: DOGS AREN’T ALLOWED ON THE COURSE

As part of our commitment to reduce our environmental impact, please play your part by coming self-sufficient with your own water supplies or bring your own re-useable cup. We will not be supplying cups at the Water Stations so please bring your own to be filled with Lake District water.

There will be water stations at mile 3.1, 6, 8 and 11.2 on the Half Marathon. The station at mile 6 and 8 will also have a selection of foods. 

There will be water stations at KM 5.8 on the 10K run. 

We recommend you wear suitable trail running shoes. The inov-8 Roclite or Trailfly shoe would be ideal for the course - possibly the Mudtalon if it was very wet. In adverse weather a jacket, tights, hat and gloves may be required, so do come prepared, just in case. The Lake District is a mountainous region and the weather can deteriorate at any time of the year but especially in the autumn.

Advanced Life Support Medics from Event Safety Group will be in attendance and our in-house Comms Team will provide radio coverage to the marshals and crew. The medics' priority is medical emergencies and more severe injuries. With that in mind, they may not be able to help you with minor cuts and scrapes that you’d normally be able to sort out yourself.

If you are unable to finish your event and need to retire, you must report to the finish line or an event marshal and hand in your race number.

Please remember to treat fellow runners, members of the public, our volunteers and crew with respect. We want everyone to have an enjoyable day!

Pete Bland Sports will be onsite providing expert advice, selling a wide range of the latest inov8 products and race essentials with great discounts on all inov8 footwear and clothing – even their exciting new products.

We use all small local businesses who sell locally sourced food. There will be some great food and drink stalls including exciting offerings from our local caterers. Our regular caterers include home made Italian pizza with Fierry Mammas and MacNCheese from Ellie at MacNlicious. There will also be great coffees from The Coffee Bug and Podda & Wren.

If it's your first event and you want to find out more about how the event works or have any questions, please introduce yourself to one of our friendly marshals and we will be happy to make sure you get the information you need!

All children Under 12 have the chance to run alongside, or maybe even in front of, Zeraffa, the long-lost cousin of the late and much-loved Gerry the Giraffe. Entry is only available on the day and is free for competitors’ children.

The Fun Trails give children the buzz of the race day experience so please give them your support. You never know – they might be the next world champions! All the children are rewarded with a special finishers’ medal.

As the emphasis is on FUN and participation, there are no winners’ prizes. Bring your whole family along to make a great day of it! At Cartmel the Fun Trail sets off at 12.30.

We will have a fantastic selection of NEW merchandise available, including NEW sustainable 100% organic cotton hoodies & tees as well as Lakeland Trails' technical tees and NEW mugs. Check out our SHOP page for further information.

Spectators are very welcome and really help create a fantastic atmosphere in the event village. There is plenty of entertainment at the start and finish arena; bring deck chairs, rugs, cameras and a smile!

No dogs are allowed at Leighton Hall, a condition of the venue owners. 

We will have James Kirby, our professional photographer on the course. FREE photos will be available to download from www.Facebook.com/lakelandtrails on the Monday after the event.

The legendary singer / songwriter Pete Lashley will be performing live for an hour with Prize Giving following on afterwards. This is a great opportunity to meet fellow competitors, the organising and marshalling teams.

There will be a great range of Spot Prizes up for grabs. We’ll choose the winning numbers at random during our Prize Giving ceremony.

Results will appear LIVE on the Results page on our website.

Prizegiving is at 4.30pm and prizes are awarded as follows:

Trail Run 10k

Open Class: First 3 Men & First 3 Women

Veteran Classes: First Man & First Woman (V40, V50, V60, V70, V80)

Trail Race 18k (please note: runners in the 18k Challenge event are not eligible for a prize)

Open Class: First 3 Men & First 3 Women

Veteran Classes: First Man & First Woman (V40, V50, V60, V70, V80)

Please note that if a Vet finishes in the top 3, they will receive the corresponding Open Class prize. There is only one prize awarded per person.

V70 and V80 competitors in the 18k can compete in either the Race or Challenge to be eligible for a prize. In all other categories, prizes are only awarded for runners in the 'Race' start at 2pm.

Unfortunately we are unable to post prizes out.

The event requires over 50 marshals and stewards, so if you want to volunteer to help us in any way we would love to hear from you. Check out our volunteers' page for more details.

After the excitement of the race, it can be easy to forget to pick something up. If you think you've lost / forgotten something, please contact us HERE and we'll see if we can locate the item. Items can be collected at a future event free of charge or posted back to you for £5. For the latter, please pay HERE after we've confirmed we've got your item.