Date: Sat 21st to Sun 22nd Jun 2025
The magical Cotswold Way provides a stunning setting for a testing challenge with some fantastic views en route and rugged hills in between.
The Cotswold Way offers beautiful views and tough hills. The route takes you through quintessential English villages and well-trodden footpaths and trails.
The Cirencester basecamp is the start of the 100 km looped route through the heart of the Cotswolds, providing a stunning setting for 2,000 adventurers to test themselves.
Rolling hills, villages, the Cotswold Way, footpaths & trails, with some fabulous views en route. You’ll get full support & hospitality, including optional ‘university style’ accommodation at basecamp, and with three quarter, half, quarter + a Cirencester 10 km distance option also – there’s a Cotswold’s Challenge for everyone.
Keeping you well fed & hydrated is key, snacks & drinks are included.
- Snacks & drink stops every 12.5 km
- Snacks – from the healthy to treats
- Picnic at 25 km (for 50km participants)
- Energy drinks
- All dietary requirements catered for
- Lighter options for ‘runners’
- Finishers hot meal 50 km (picnic for 25km & 10km)
There are experienced Doctors, Paramedics, First Aiders, Podiatrists, and Massage Teams at Rest Stops. There are also ‘Self Help’ areas with blister plasters, talc, Vaseline, and tape if you want to patch your own feet.
You’ll get a medal, finisher’s T-shirt, and a glass of fizz, before heading to a BBQ and a well earned rest.
To enquire about the Cotswold Way Challenge or any of our other events, please contact our Events Team at 020 7803 1123 or [email protected] .
Having walked several long distance routes, Dave and I decided that we would enjoy the challenge of walking the Cotswold Way in September, - 100 miles in 10 days to raise funds for the Mental Health Foundation. And what a challenge it was! We soon discovered that we were the only people camping along the way, which obviously meant carrying all our equipment with us. Plenty of rain, winds, a broken tent pole on night three, massive ascents and descents, then extremely cold nights during the second half of the challenge meant that at times we were ready to give up and head home. What kept us going though, was the incredible generosity of all our donors, the amazing kindness of complete strangers, and the knowledge that we were raising money for such a worthwhile cause. Just about everyone we spoke to wanted to know more about the Mental Health Foundation and responded very positively to what we were doing. As we reached our destination it was with the knowledge that we had raised in excess of £2000. It made all the pain so worthwhile!
