Trail running routes in North Downs
The chalk ridge running from Farnham to the Kent coast, carrying the North Downs Way for 153 miles. Steeper and more wooded than its southern twin, with the climbs coming in repeated short pulls off the valley floor rather than long drags.
No published routes yet in North Downs.
Races in North Downs
All North Downs races →The next races starting in North Downs, with runner reviews and what people wore where we have them. Train on the routes above.
9
Dec
2026
Winter Downs 200
Mickleham, Surrey · Centurion Running
Two hundred miles of the North and South Downs in December.
EXPERT
Entries open
1
Jan
2027
Surrey Inns Kanter
Merstham Village Hall, Station Road North, Merstham · LDWA Surrey
New Year's Day map-reading from Merstham: twelve or twenty miles from a list of grid references, no support on the route, map, compass and pencil essential. Fifty-second running.
Entries open
17
Jan
2027
Winter Tanners
Leatherhead, Surrey · LDWA Surrey
The forty-eighth Tanners: thirty or twenty miles of the Surrey Hills from Leatherhead on a route that is new every January, with minimal support and all back by seven.
Entries open
£10–£33
14
Mar
2027
Sevenoaks Circular
West Heath School, Sevenoaks · LDWA Kent
The fiftieth running, with three new routes heading west out of Sevenoaks: fourteen, twenty or thirty miles, and four thousand two hundred feet of climb on the long one.
Entries open
About running in North Downs
The chalk ridge running from Farnham to the Kent coast, carrying the North Downs Way for 153 miles. Steeper and more wooded than its southern twin, with the climbs coming in repeated short pulls off the valley floor rather than long drags.
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