It's Grim Up North Running Do You Like My Bingley Baubles

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What you’re in for

The festive one from Bingley Rugby Club, 5k to marathon, a week before Christmas. Christmas fancy dress welcome and a festive medal for everyone who finishes. The course is the Leeds & Liverpool Canal towpath out of Bingley, an out-and-back that turns at a marshal. It is flat apart from the two famous bits: the Three Rise and the Five Rise locks, the Five Rise being the steepest staircase lock flight in Britain, which the towpath climbs beside. Registration and the start are a ten-minute walk apart while the Canal & River Trust are working nearby, and Bingley station is about a mile and a half away. The marathon is the half twice.

Terrain and trail

Surfaced towpath, well kept, and the organiser rates it the best underfoot of their canal courses. The lock flights are the only gradient and they are short and sharp — a proper ramp at the Five Rise and a lesser one at the Three Rise, each way. Otherwise flat, even and fast, with the usual puddles. Feed stations roughly every three miles with drinks, sweets and cake, and the events are cup-less, so bring your own cup or bottle. A GPX is supplied and not every junction has a marshal, so know where the turn is. Over-ear headphones are not allowed, and some road crossings are unmarshalled.

Train for it: routes near the start

Routes starting within 20 km of Bingley Rugby Club, Wagon Lane, Bingley, nearest first. Each one has a free GPX file and a TRP grade, so you can rehearse the ground before race day.

MODERATE

Shipley Glen and Baildon Moor

12.7km · 215m climb · Loop · 2.5km away

You start at the World Heritage village of Saltaire, run the canal and the wooded ravine of Shipley Glen, then climb to the trig on Baildon Moor for a proper moor-top view over Airedale.

VERY HARD

The Ilkley Skyline

35.1km · 808m climb · Loop · 7.9km away

Eleven kilometres of unbroken moor crest, then you cross the valley and run the skyline back the other way with your entire morning laid out in front of you. It is the biggest day available from an Ilkley train station.

HARD

Burley Moor Stone Circles from the Cow and Calf

11.6km · 320m climb · Loop · 8.8km away

Four thousand years of prehistory in one loop. Rombalds Moor carries over 400 cup-and-ring marked stones, and this route strings the best of them together before dropping you onto two kilometres of Burley Moor that almost nobody runs.

MODERATE

The Twelve Apostles and Rombalds Moor Trig from the Cow and Calf

7.7km · 248m climb · Loop · 8.8km away

You touch the highest point of the moor and a Bronze Age stone circle inside eight kilometres, on paths good enough to run nearly all of. It is the best hour available on Ilkley Moor.

MODERATE

Ilkley Moor from the Cow and Calf

9.5km · 287m climb · Loop · 9.1km away

You run straight up onto the moor of the famous song, past the Cow and Calf crags and out to the Twelve Apostles stone circle, with cup-and-ring carvings scattered underfoot.

Checked Jul 2026

HARD

Ilkley, Rombalds Moor, Roman Road and Addingham

28.7km · 565m climb · Loop · 9.7km away

You climb out of pretty Ilkley onto the wide gritstone shoulder of Rombalds Moor, then swing back through the green lower Wharfe valley for a big, varied day close to home.

Checked Jul 2026

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Common questions

How far is the Do You Like My Bingley Baubles?

The Do You Like My Bingley Baubles offers 4 distances: 5K (3.1 miles), 10K (6.2 miles), Half Marathon (21.1 km / 13.1 miles), Marathon (42.2 km / 26.2 miles).

How much climbing is in the Do You Like My Bingley Baubles?

No course file for the Do You Like My Bingley Baubles yet, so there's no measured climb here. When It's Grim Up North Running publish one, this fills in.

How hard is the Do You Like My Bingley Baubles?

Not graded yet. A TRP grade is worked out from distance and climb measured off the course file, and there isn't one for the Do You Like My Bingley Baubles yet.

Is the Do You Like My Bingley Baubles course marked?

Yes, the course is marked. Navigation skills are not required.

What kit do I need for the Do You Like My Bingley Baubles?

We don't hold a compulsory kit list for the Do You Like My Bingley Baubles. It's Grim Up North Running confirm mandatory kit in their race information, usually in the final instructions.

What are the cut-offs for the Do You Like My Bingley Baubles?

We don't hold published time limits for the Do You Like My Bingley Baubles. If It's Grim Up North Running set cut-offs, they'll be in the race information.

What is at the checkpoints on the Do You Like My Bingley Baubles?

We don't hold a checkpoint list for the Do You Like My Bingley Baubles. What's on the table varies a lot between races, so check the It's Grim Up North Running race information rather than turning up expecting food.

Can I download the Do You Like My Bingley Baubles route?

Not yet — we don't hold a course file for the Do You Like My Bingley Baubles. Some organisers only send the GPX to entrants. If we get one, it goes up free, with no sign-up.

When is the next Do You Like My Bingley Baubles?

Sun, 20 Dec 2026, 08:30. Entries open.