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West Highland Way Race

The West Highland Way Race, 95 miles, Milngavie to Fort William, 01:00 Saturday start. Organiser: The West Highland Way Race Organisation.

2026 edition, the 40th (20 June 2026) · Historical edition · race data 2026-09-09

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Historical edition: fully published, but a past race. Cut-offs are on the race clock and apply to arrival: 12:00:00 at Beinglas continues, 12:00:01 goes home. A crew with a vehicle is a condition of entry, with mandatory meetings at Tyndrum, Glencoe, Kinlochleven and the finish. Support runners only from Tyndrum and only if you leave after the published times.

Start to finish, including every stop and any sleep. Limit 35 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, the 40th (20 June 2026) without a plan.

Checkpoint schedule for West Highland Way Race, 2026 edition, the 40th (20 June 2026)
CheckpointDistanceSectionArriveStopDepartCut-offBuffer
Milngavie station car park (start)
start · crew pointcrew allowed
Rules and notes
  • Crew: One crew member must attend registration to receive the vehicle permit. Drop bags in by 23:45 Friday.
  • Gather 00:45 at the bridge beside the station. Briefing 00:45, start exactly 01:00.
  • Poles may not be used in the first 4 miles, before the public road after Carbeth Huts.
  • Support runners carry their own mandatory kit and the runner's second number, and must never carry the runner's mandatory kit. The support crew declaration form is a condition of starting.
  • SI-card must be dibbed at every checkpoint; hand it and the tracker in at the finish or on retiring.
0.0 miStart–––none published–
Beech Tree, Dumgoyne (road crossing)
crew pointcrew unknown
Rules and notes
  • Crew: Not a checkpoint, but a manned road crossing. Parking at the Inn. Coffee and bacon rolls on sale. The organiser does not state crew permission here.
  • Aid: No organiser aid stated here. Food and drink come from your crew or your drop bag.
  • Not a timed checkpoint.
7.0 mi
+7.0 mi
–
–
min
–none published–
Drymen (crew point)
crew pointcrew allowed
Rules and notes
  • Crew: Crews must park in Drymen and walk to the checkpoint. No noise.
  • Aid: No organiser aid stated here. Food and drink come from your crew or your drop bag.
  • No cut-off published here.
12.5 mi
+5.5 mi
–
–
min
–none published–
CP1 Balmaha
timing · crew point · drop bagcrew allowedno support runner
Rules and notes
  • Crew: Balmaha car park G63 0JQ. Not prohibited; parking address published, no explicit permission wording in the 2026 documents.
  • Support runner: No support runners allowed before Tyndrum.
  • Drop bag: Drop bag option. No poles, no water in drop bags; bags are not returned.
  • Aid: Please do not put bottles of water in your drop bag. Water will be supplied. Food comes from your drop bag or crew.
  • Mocha Coffee Shop open.
19.0 mi
+6.5 mi
–
–
min
–
5 h 00 min after start
must arrive by (on the second counts)
5 h 15 min after start
must have left by
–
CP2 Rowardennan
timing · crew point · drop bagcrew allowedno support runner
Rules and notes
  • Crew: Rowardennan car park G63 0AR. Large motorhomes are not permitted for travel to Rowardennan. Beware of midges.
  • Support runner: No support runners allowed before Tyndrum.
  • Drop bag: Drop bag option.
  • Aid: Please do not put bottles of water in your drop bag. Water will be supplied. Food comes from your drop bag or crew.
27.0 mi
+8.0 mi
–
–
min
–
7 h 30 min after start
must arrive by (on the second counts)
7 h 45 min after start
must have left by
–
CP3 Inversnaid
timing · aidcrew unknownno support runner
Rules and notes
  • Crew: Support crew shouldn't be here unless they want to spend 6 hours driving.
  • Support runner: No support runners allowed before Tyndrum.
  • Aid: Water, soft drink and snacks at aid stations that are not mandatory crew points. The runner is expected to be semi self-sufficient; food and drink come from the crew or a drop bag.
  • No cut-off at this checkpoint (organiser: No Cut-off).
35.0 mi
+8.0 mi
–
–
min
–none published–
CP4 Beinglas
timing · drop bagcrew prohibitedno support runner
Rules and notes
  • Crew: No runner crews here (checkpoints page). Rules: Crews must not meet runners on the A82 between Beinglas Farm and the big gate at Bogle Glen (Crianlarich). This is strictly enforced.
  • Support runner: No support runners allowed before Tyndrum.
  • Drop bag: Drop bag option.
  • Aid: Please do not put bottles of water in your drop bag. Water will be supplied. Food comes from your drop bag or crew.
  • 2026: checkpoint on the way in to the farm site rather than on the way out.
42.0 mi
+7.0 mi
–
–
min
–
12 h 00 min after start
must arrive by (on the second counts)
12 h 15 min after start
must have left by
–
A82 crossing, Bogle Glen (water station)
aidcrew prohibitedno support runner
Rules and notes
  • Crew: No runner crews here.
  • Support runner: No support runners allowed before Tyndrum.
  • Aid: Water and coke station just before the A82 crossing (2026). Not a timed checkpoint.
  • No cut-off published here.
51.0 mi
+9.0 mi
–
–
min
–none published–
CP5 Tyndrum
timing · crew point · pacer pointcrew allowedsupport runner allowed
Rules and notes
  • Crew: Mandatory crew meeting point. Use the Muthu Hotels car park in Lower Station Road; do not park at the Green Welly, Real Food Cafe or By The Way unless a customer.
  • Support runner: Support runner permitted only if you leave Tyndrum after 11h00 race time (12:00). Ahead of that time your crew may run with you only a quarter of a mile either side of the checkpoint.
  • Aid: No organiser aid stated here. Food and drink come from your crew or your drop bag.
  • Cut-off amended 9 June 2026 to 16h15 (17:15).
53.0 mi
+2.0 mi
–
–
min
–
16 h 15 min after start
must arrive by (on the second counts)
16 h 30 min after start
must have left by
–
CP6 Bridge of Orchy
timing · crew point · aid · pacer pointcrew allowedsupport runner allowed
Rules and notes
  • Crew: Park in the Sport Scotland car park before the hotel or the Forestry Land Scotland car park over the bridge. No right turn towards the station. Dangerous road junction. No motorhomes.
  • Support runner: Support runner permitted if you leave after 12h00 race time (13:00) per the June web rules; the May rules PDF said 12h30.
  • Aid: Water, soft drink and snacks at aid stations that are not mandatory crew points. The runner is expected to be semi self-sufficient; food and drink come from the crew or a drop bag.
60.0 mi
+7.0 mi
–
–
min
–
18 h 30 min after start
must arrive by (on the second counts)
18 h 45 min after start
must have left by
–
CP7 Glencoe Mountain Resort
timing · crew point · pacer pointcrew allowedsupport runner allowed
Rules and notes
  • Crew: Mandatory crew meeting point. Lots of parking. Good rest stop.
  • Support runner: Support runner permitted if you leave after 14h45 race time (15:45).
  • Aid: No organiser aid stated here. Food and drink come from your crew or your drop bag.
71.0 mi
+11.0 mi
–
–
min
–
23 h 00 min after start
must arrive by (on the second counts)
23 h 15 min after start
must have left by
–
CP8 Kinlochleven, Leven Centre
timing · crew point · pacer pointcrew allowedsupport runner allowed
Rules and notes
  • Crew: Mandatory crew meeting point. Indoors; no more than two supporters may meet their runner in the Centre. Keep noise down at night.
  • Support runner: Support runner permitted if you leave after 17h30 race time (18:30).
  • Aid: No organiser aid stated here. Food and drink come from your crew or your drop bag.
81.0 mi
+10.0 mi
–
–
min
–
28 h 00 min after start
must arrive by (on the second counts)
28 h 15 min after start
must have left by
–
CP9 Lundavra
timing · crew point · aidcrew allowedsupport runner allowed
Rules and notes
  • Crew: Limited parking. No motorhomes.
  • Support runner: The rules set support-runner windows at Tyndrum, Bridge of Orchy, Glencoe and Kinlochleven and say nothing specific about Lundavra; a support runner already with you is covered by those windows.
  • Aid: Snacks available for runners.
88.0 mi
+7.0 mi
–
–
min
–
32 h 30 min after start
must arrive by (on the second counts)
32 h 45 min after start
must have left by
–
Fort William, Nevis Centre (finish)
finish · timing · crew pointcrew allowed
Rules and notes
  • Crew: Mandatory crew meeting point. The race finishes inside the Nevis Centre. Parking charges apply.
95.0 mi
+7.0 mi
–
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35 h 00 min after start
must arrive by (on the second counts)
–

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, the 40th (20 June 2026)

Not verified for this edition

  • ascent is not stated on the rules or checkpoint pages
  • the May 2026 rules PDF says support runners from Bridge of Orchy after 12h30, the June web rules say 12h00; the later web rules are used
  • exact aid at each intermediate station beyond water, soft drink and snacks
  • GPX reuse conditions

Amendments and conflicts recorded

  • Tyndrum cut-off extended on 9 June 2026 from 16h00 (17:00) to 16h15 (17:15).
  • Beinglas checkpoint moved to the way in to the farm; no Auchtertyre checkpoint in 2026; water station at the A82 crossing; Bridge of Orchy checkpoint moved to the Community Hall.
  • Road closure on race day (16 June 2026 notice): the A81 from Milngavie to Drymen was closed on Saturday 20 June; crews were routed via the A809.
  • The organiser's own mileages disagree by one: the route-variation notes say Glencoe mile 70, Kinlochleven mile 80 and Glen Nevis mile 93, while the cut-off tables give 71 and 81. The cut-off tables are used.

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.