Runaway Racing Chiltern Ridge Winter 50K
The Chiltern Ridge loop in its winter form, fifty kilometres out of Berkhamsted and back.
50K
31 miles
740 m ascent
15 m per km
9h cut-off
10:48/km to make it
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The course
VERY HARD
TRP grade · E4·T2
9h cut-off, which needs 10:48/km
What you’re in for
The Chiltern Ridge loop in its winter form: 50.3km out of Berkhamsted cricket club and back with 740m of climb, marked, nine hours. End of October.
Terrain and trail
Chiltern chalk and beech woods: firm bridleway, rooty single-track and steep-sided valleys, with leaf-fall mud by late October. Marked throughout. A trail shoe.
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Common questions
- The Chiltern Ridge Winter 50K is one distance: 50K (31.1 miles).