How far is the MTC LEJOG?

The MTC LEJOG is one distance: 854 Mile (1374.4 km).

Is the MTC LEJOG course marked?

No. The MTC LEJOG is not a marked course. You are expected to navigate it yourself.

Ultra Running Ltd MTC LEJOG

Land's End, CornwallThu, 1 Oct – Sat, 17 Oct 2026

Land's End to John o' Groats on foot, 854 miles in seventeen days.

854 Mile

1374 km

roadNavigation required

Nobody has reviewed this one yet

No reviews of the MTC LEJOG, and nothing on what people wore. Both are things no organiser publishes and every runner wants before they enter — how it actually went, and what was on your feet.

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The course

Start time not confirmed yet — check with the organiser.

What you’re in for

Land's End to John o' Groats on foot, 854 miles in seventeen consecutive days, averaging more than fifty miles a day. Twelve places. The route is the Mount to Coast line the whole way — west Cornwall, Dartmoor's edge, the Severn, the Cheshire plain, Shap, the Borders, Drumochter and the Caithness coast — with a hotel at the end of every day. 1,374km. Preset cut-offs each day at a minimum 4 mph average: fall below it and you are warned, do it two days running and you are withdrawn without debate. Nothing on the course after ten at night. Checkpoints every eight miles or so from day one, trackers with SOS, maps and GPX for entrants only. The organiser says plainly that few people have the fitness or the resolve to finish, and the finisher list bears that out.

Terrain and trail

Road and cycle path almost throughout — the organiser supplies a pair of road shoes before the start, and advises trail shoes for about four miles on one day only. Every kind of British road there is: Cornish lanes, the Severn valley, the A6 over Shap, the old A9 through Drumochter. The ground is never the problem. Seventeen days is.

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Cut-offs

Seventeen consecutive days, averaging over 50 miles a day, with preset cut-offs on each day rather than one overall limit.

How to enter

Thu, 1 Oct – Sat, 17 Oct 2026 · Not open yet

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Add to your calendar · as an all-day entry, until the start time is confirmed

Common questions

: The MTC LEJOG is one distance: 854 Mile (1374.4 km).
: No course file for the MTC LEJOG yet, so there's no measured climb here. When Ultra Running Ltd publish one, this fills in.
: 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 MTC LEJOG yet.
: No. The MTC LEJOG is not a marked course. You are expected to navigate it yourself.
: We don't hold a compulsory kit list for the MTC LEJOG. Ultra Running Ltd confirm mandatory kit in their race information, usually in the final instructions.
: Seventeen consecutive days, averaging over 50 miles a day, with preset cut-offs on each day rather than one overall limit.
: We don't hold a checkpoint list for the MTC LEJOG. What's on the table varies a lot between races, so check the Ultra Running Ltd race information rather than turning up expecting food.
: Not yet — we don't hold a course file for the MTC LEJOG. Some organisers only send the GPX to entrants. If we get one, it goes up free, with no sign-up.
: Thu, 1 Oct 2026. Not open yet.