How far is the Ladybower Reservoir?

The Ladybower Reservoir offers 2 distances: 52K (32.3 miles), 21K (13.0 miles).

How much climbing is in the Ladybower Reservoir?

The 52K has 2,200 m of ascent. The 21K has 871 m of ascent.

What are the cut-offs for the Ladybower Reservoir?

Overall time limits — 52K: 11h, 21K: 5h. Eleven hours on the 52K.

RunThrough Trails Ladybower Reservoir

Hope, DerbyshireNo date announced yet

Peak District moorland from the Hope Valley.

Distance	Ascent	Per km
52K	2,200 m	42 m
21K	871 m	42 m

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Pick your distance

11h cut-off, which needs 12:42/km

6 checkpoints

What you’re in for

Out of the Hope Valley into the Peak District National Park, past the reservoirs, over moorland and through old woodland. Two distances, with the 52K starting at eight. Base camp is the Hope Show showground at Marsh Farm, on the Hope Valley line if you are coming by train, with free parking on site.

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Aid stations

Six aid stations on the 52K.

Cut-offs

Eleven hours on the 52K.

Train for it: routes near the start

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

VERY HARD

The Grand Edale Circular

28.7km · 1,344m climb · Loop · 1.3km away

The full Peak District experience — deep peat bog, gritstone edges, and those big Kinder views. Earn the ridge on the way back in.

HARD

Mam Tor and the Great Ridge

12.6km · 502m climb · Loop · 3.5km away

You run the entire Great Ridge end to end, a paved skyline with the Hope and Edale valleys falling away on either side, then loop through Castleton beneath the caves and old road.

VERY HARD

Edale Skyline

29.5km · 861m climb · Loop · 3.6km away

You spend almost the whole loop on the skyline itself, linking gritstone edges and summits with the Edale valley dropping away below you the entire way round.

MODERATE

Win Hill and Ladybower Loop

13.1km · 282m climb · Loop · 4.9km away

Win Hill's summit is a bare gritstone knuckle with one of the widest views in the Dark Peak - Kinder, the Derwent moors and the whole Hope Valley at once - for a climb you can fit into a morning.

VERY HARD

Edale, Mam Tor, Win Hill and Derwent Dam from Ladybower

29.9km · 1,207m climb · Loop · 6.1km away

The Dark Peak's greatest hits in one loop - the Great Ridge, Edale, Win Hill's summit view down the Hope Valley - linked up so you never have to double back on yourself.

HARD

Derwent Dam and Ladybower Dam Circuit

24.3km · 165m climb · Loop · 6.2km away

Nearly 25km of genuinely runnable, mostly traffic-free trail with almost no climbing - this is where to go in the Peak District when you want distance in your legs, not vertical.

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Other races near here

Peak District races →

Races from other organisers starting within 30 km of Hope, Derbyshire, nearest first.

Nov

2026

Peak District South & North

Edale, Derbyshire · Ranger Ultras · 3 miles away

Fifty kilometres on the Saturday, forty-three on the Sunday, or both across one weekend.

Day 2 — 43 km, Day 1 — 50 km & Both Days — 93 kmup to 3,124 m climb

Navigation required

Entries open

Jan

2027

Winter Spine Challenger South

Edale, Derbyshire · The Spine Race · 3 miles away

Edale to Hardraw, the southern hundred of the Pennine Way in winter.

108 miles5,451 m climb

Navigation requiredRuns through the night

Event full

Jan

2027

Winter Spine Sprint South

Edale, Derbyshire · The Spine Race · 3 miles away

Forty-six miles from Edale over Kinder and Bleaklow.

46 miles2,017 m climb

Navigation requiredRuns through the night

Event full

Jan

2027

Winter Spine

Edale, Derbyshire · The Spine Race · 3 miles away

The whole Pennine Way in January, non-stop, in seven hours of daylight a day.

268 miles10,732 m climb

Navigation requiredRuns through the night

Event full

How to enter

No date announced for the next running yet. RunThrough Trails’s site ↗ is where it will show up first.

Common questions

: The Ladybower Reservoir offers 2 distances: 52K (32.3 miles), 21K (13.0 miles).
: The 52K has 2,200 m of ascent. The 21K has 871 m of ascent.
: 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 Ladybower Reservoir yet.
: We haven't confirmed the marking on the Ladybower Reservoir with RunThrough Trails. Check their race information before you enter rather than assuming it either way.
: We don't hold a compulsory kit list for the Ladybower Reservoir. RunThrough Trails confirm mandatory kit in their race information, usually in the final instructions.
: Overall time limits — 52K: 11h, 21K: 5h. Eleven hours on the 52K.
: Six aid stations on the 52K.
: Not yet — we don't hold a course file for the Ladybower Reservoir. Some organisers only send the GPX to entrants. If we get one, it goes up free, with no sign-up.
: No date announced. When RunThrough Trails confirm the next Ladybower Reservoir, it appears here and on the race calendar.

Past runnings

2026Sat, 26 Sept 2026

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What you’re in for

Aid stations

Cut-offs

Train for it: routes near the start

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