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Lakeland 50

Montane Lakeland 50, 50 miles, Dalemain to Coniston. Organiser: Montane Lakeland 50 & 100 event team.

2026 edition (25 July 2026) · Historical edition · race data 2026-09-09

Training guide: Lakeland 100All races

Historical edition: fully published, but a past race. Six staffed checkpoints after a four-mile loop of the Dalemain estate. Cut-offs are last departures, support is banned, and there is no water or food for 50-mile runners at Dalemain itself.

Start to finish, including every stop and any sleep. Limit 24 h 00 min.

StopsEvery stop starts at 0 min. Set them all:then adjust each one in the table.
This is the 2026 edition, a race that has already happened. Its checkpoints and cut-offs are useful for planning but they are not the next edition’s until the organiser publishes them.

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The checkpoint list below shows the official distances, cut-offs and access rules for 2026 edition (25 July 2026) without a plan.

Checkpoint schedule for Lakeland 50, 2026 edition (25 July 2026)
CheckpointDistanceSectionArriveStopDepartCut-offBuffer
Dalemain (start)
startcrew allowedsupport runner allowed
Rules and notes
  • Crew: Friends and family may join you for the initial 4 mile loop but must not enter the start pen. Spectating allowed at Dalemain.
  • Support runner: Supporters may run the first 4 miles round the Dalemain estate only; after that a support runner is an instant DQ.
  • The 100-mile checkpoint marquee is off limits to 50-mile runners: no water or refreshments here for the 50. A return bag can be left here for Coniston. Coach from Coniston leaves 07:00, pre-booked.
  • Organiser rules: no stashing food, drink or kit on the course beforehand (carry it from the start or take what's supplied at checkpoints); dropping litter is an immediate DQ; this is a set route and taking direct lines is cheating; supporters must not enter checkpoint buildings.
0.0 miStart–––none published–
CP1 Howtown
aid · timingcrew prohibitedno support runner
Rules and notes
  • Crew: At no point during either the 50 or 100 miles event are you allowed support from anyone other than fellow runners and checkpoint staff. Friends, family or supporters should not hand you personal drinks, food or equipment at any point on the course.
  • Support runner: It's also STRICTLY PROHIBITED to have anyone running 'support' with you. If you run with a support runner, it's instant DQ. The only exception is the first 4 miles round the Dalemain estate at the Lakeland 50 start.
  • Aid: Hot drinks, water, cola, checkpoint food.
  • Organiser: "NO SPECTATING AT CP9/1 HOWTOWN". Supporters at a restricted checkpoint mean disqualification for the runner.
11.2 mi
+11.2 mi
–
–
min
–
2026-07-25 15:00
must have left by
–
CP2 Mardale Head
aid · timingcrew prohibitedno support runner
Rules and notes
  • Crew: At no point during either the 50 or 100 miles event are you allowed support from anyone other than fellow runners and checkpoint staff. Friends, family or supporters should not hand you personal drinks, food or equipment at any point on the course.
  • Support runner: It's also STRICTLY PROHIBITED to have anyone running 'support' with you. If you run with a support runner, it's instant DQ. The only exception is the first 4 miles round the Dalemain estate at the Lakeland 50 start.
  • Aid: Soup, hot drinks, water, cola.
  • Organiser: "NO SPECTATING AT CP10/2 MARDALE (ROAD CLOSED)". Supporters at a restricted checkpoint mean disqualification for the runner.
20.6 mi
+9.4 mi
–
–
min
–
2026-07-25 20:00
must have left by
–
CP3 Kentmere
aid · timingcrew prohibitedno support runner
Rules and notes
  • Crew: At no point during either the 50 or 100 miles event are you allowed support from anyone other than fellow runners and checkpoint staff. Friends, family or supporters should not hand you personal drinks, food or equipment at any point on the course.
  • Support runner: It's also STRICTLY PROHIBITED to have anyone running 'support' with you. If you run with a support runner, it's instant DQ. The only exception is the first 4 miles round the Dalemain estate at the Lakeland 50 start.
  • Aid: Pasta meal, hot drinks, water, cola.
  • Organiser: "NO SPECTATING AT CP 11/3 KENTMERE". Supporters at a restricted checkpoint mean disqualification for the runner.
27.1 mi
+6.5 mi
–
–
min
–
2026-07-26 01:00
must have left by
–
CP4 Ambleside
aid · timingcrew prohibitedno support runner
Rules and notes
  • Crew: At no point during either the 50 or 100 miles event are you allowed support from anyone other than fellow runners and checkpoint staff. Friends, family or supporters should not hand you personal drinks, food or equipment at any point on the course.
  • Support runner: It's also STRICTLY PROHIBITED to have anyone running 'support' with you. If you run with a support runner, it's instant DQ. The only exception is the first 4 miles round the Dalemain estate at the Lakeland 50 start.
  • Aid: Soup, hot drinks, water, cola.
  • Spectating allowed in the village, not in the school.
34.4 mi
+7.3 mi
–
–
min
–
2026-07-26 04:00
must have left by
–
CP5 Chapel Stile
aid · timingcrew prohibitedno support runner
Rules and notes
  • Crew: At no point during either the 50 or 100 miles event are you allowed support from anyone other than fellow runners and checkpoint staff. Friends, family or supporters should not hand you personal drinks, food or equipment at any point on the course.
  • Support runner: It's also STRICTLY PROHIBITED to have anyone running 'support' with you. If you run with a support runner, it's instant DQ. The only exception is the first 4 miles round the Dalemain estate at the Lakeland 50 start.
  • Aid: Stew, hot drinks, water, cola.
  • Organiser: "NO SPECTATING AT CP 13/5 CHAPEL STILE". Supporters at a restricted checkpoint mean disqualification for the runner.
40.0 mi
+5.6 mi
–
–
min
–
2026-07-26 06:00
must have left by
–
CP6 Tilberthwaite
aid · timingcrew prohibitedno support runner
Rules and notes
  • Crew: At no point during either the 50 or 100 miles event are you allowed support from anyone other than fellow runners and checkpoint staff. Friends, family or supporters should not hand you personal drinks, food or equipment at any point on the course.
  • Support runner: It's also STRICTLY PROHIBITED to have anyone running 'support' with you. If you run with a support runner, it's instant DQ. The only exception is the first 4 miles round the Dalemain estate at the Lakeland 50 start.
  • Aid: Hot drinks, water, cola, checkpoint food.
  • Organiser: "NO SPECTATING AT CP 14/6 TILBERTHWAITE". Supporters at a restricted checkpoint mean disqualification for the runner.
  • Event notes kit list: emergency money (incl £1 Jacob's Ladder).
46.5 mi
+6.5 mi
–
–
min
–
2026-07-26 08:40
must have left by
–
Coniston (finish)
finish · timingcrew unknownno support runner
Rules and notes
  • Crew: Spectating allowed at the finish.
  • Support runner: It's also STRICTLY PROHIBITED to have anyone running 'support' with you. If you run with a support runner, it's instant DQ. The only exception is the first 4 miles round the Dalemain estate at the Lakeland 50 start.
50.0 mi
+3.5 mi
–
–––
2026-07-26 10:00
must arrive by
–

Times are Europe/London local time, with the day. Distances are the organiser’s cumulative figures converted to miles. Buffer is the cut-off minus your planned arrival or departure, whichever the organiser’s rule applies to. A missed cut-off is shown even when the finish is inside its limit. Colour is never the only signal; every status carries a word.

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Time budget. Your target is elapsed time from the start to the finish line. Every stop you enter, sleep included, is subtracted first; what is left is the moving budget. If the stops use up the target the tool says so rather than squeezing the moving time.

Sections. In “share the target” mode the moving budget is split across sections in proportion to their distance, so every section is at the same average speed. That is arithmetic, not a model of climbs, mud or night. Lock a section to a time you trust, or give it a factor (1.3 means you expect it to take 30% longer per mile than the rest), and the remainder is shared across the others. In “enter section times” mode your times decide the finish and the target is only compared.

Cut-offs. Each rule is compared against the instant it applies to. A departure rule is checked against your departure, so a stop can turn a cleared arrival into a missed cut-off. Where the organiser publishes a time without saying whether it is for arriving or leaving, the comparison is against departure and marked provisional. Exactly on the limit is judged by the organiser’s stated rule, or flagged when there is none. No cut-off in the table does not mean no limit.

Seconds. Everything is calculated in whole seconds and the total is conserved exactly; displayed minutes are rounded afterwards and never feed back into the comparison.

Scenarios. Changes are to section duration or stop length. Keep-finish scenarios reallocate the reduced moving budget; keep-moving scenarios push later times back with no renormalisation.

Verification is not accuracy. A verified checkpoint table tells you the rules are right. It says nothing about whether the constant-speed split matches how you will actually move.

Official sources for 2026 edition (25 July 2026)

Not verified for this edition

  • the organiser announces route changes at the briefing only
  • whether the 4.1 mile start loop is included in the published climb figure
  • no sleep facilities are mentioned at any checkpoint

Amendments and conflicts recorded

  • The course page says cut-offs are the same for the 50 and the 100; the 2026 Lakeland 50 PDF gives earlier cut-offs at Howtown, Mardale Head and Kentmere. This table follows the Lakeland 50 PDF.

Race data version 2026-09-09. Independent planning tool by ULTRALABS; not affiliated with the organiser. The organiser’s own documents are the authority and change between editions.