The Virtual Lakeland Trails is a Club-Member exclusive event. Click HERE to find out more and sign up.
When the event is underway, track your progress from THIS LINK.
The Virtual Ultra gives you the opportunity to complete either our 100k, 55k or 23k courses over a period of 3 weeks.
The event starts at 00:01 on Saturday 29th November and finishes at 23:59 on Sunday 21st December
We've gone the extra mile to make it as easy as possible for you to track your progress, with automatic syncing from Strava so you don't have to manually upload your activities to see your cumulative miles.
Your progress is plotted along actual routes - no straight lines from A to B like you might see elsewhere, and with photos from the actual course at specific waypoints, it's the next best thing to running with the amazing Lakeland Trailers but from your doorstep. One runner's feedback that ours was the best virtual mapping out there!
00:01
FREE for Club members
Family members under 18 can enter for FREE
This event is exclusively open to Lakeland Trails' Club members
We'll send out information to you a week-or-so before the event explaining how they can sync their Strava profile and sign up to the exclusive Facebook group.
It's really straightforward to sync your Lakeland Trails account to your Strava one. We've created a simple 'How To' Guide which can be downloaded from THIS LINK.
Nearly all of our previous competitors found the process very simple as we've made it as easy as possible and our system has an extremely high uptime.
We'll be able to give a few suggestions if you're struggling to get the tech to work and we'll sort things at our end in the unlikely event there are any technical glitches but unfortunately we can't provide a tech support service if you have specific issues.
Our Virtual Lakeland Trails Ultra will follow either the 23k, 55k or 100k course, setting off from Ambleside and taking you on an amazing circuit of the Lake District National Park on some of the finest trails you'll find.
The Virtual Lakeland Trails will give you options of 75k, 150k & 250k as you complete each of the Lakeland Trails courses in sequence, with your progress automatically moving from one venue to the next.
As you take part, your progress will be plotted on a map of the routes and you'll be to see photos of the actual course along the way.
The great thing is, you're in control of your own goal and challenge - it might be that competing the distance in the allotted time would mean you'd run further than you'd thought possible or that taking part gives you motivation to get out of the house in the dark (and we all know how much better you feel once you've gone out when you really had to force yourself!).
If you're one of those people for whom the distance is less than your weekly mileage, you'll be able to continue going around the route for the duration to see how many miles you can rack up...or maybe how many metres of vertical elevation you can achieve.
Saturday 22nd November 2025
00:01 START of the 2025 Virtual Lakeland Trails Ultra
Tracking will be available from THIS LINK.
Sunday 14th December 2025
23:59 END of the event
Saturday 10th January 2026
00:01 START of the 2026 Virtual Lakeland Trails
Sunday 22nd February 2026
23:59 END of the event
We've had a few questions about our Virtual Ultra so we thought we'd respond to them as FAQs
Unlike the real Ultra, there's no cut-off time so you can take as long as you like over the three weeks that the event will be running for.
The simple answer is no! Every run (or walk) you do will count towards your total mileage so you could do ten 10k runs or twenty 5k runs - or any combination that works for you.
Like our real Ultra, it's perfectly fine to walk or run to cover the distance. One of the great things about running an Ultra is that there's no pressure to run all the way so you can stop and take in the views!
If you've got a Strava account, you'll be able to link it up before the event so that our system will automatically updated your progress. Don't worry if you don't as there'll be the option to submit your efforts manually too.