The Winter Tolkien Trail Race 2025

 

Get ready for the Christmas festivities and Go 'There & Back Again' with The Winter Tolkien Trail Race, and journey around the course in the opposite direction to the Summer race!

 

Starting on the Avenue of the stunning Stonyhurst College, where Tolkien himself spent time and wrote parts of the Lord of the Rings (and even taught a few lectures). You'll begin racing from the grounds of Stonyhurst, through the village of Hurst Green before descending down the field lovingly known as "Mount Doom" where you'll meet the Tolkienesque woodland. Seeing the breathtaking aqueduct (built in 1880), you'll run counter clockwise along the Hobbiton-like Ribble River, gaining views only available to the Winter version of the race.  

 

You'll race down towards the Cromwell Bridge (built in 1562) leading you to the trail where you'll reach the ancient woodlands. If 'Mount Doom' is the challenge in the Summer version, then the steps out of 'Fangorn Forest' will be equally challenging, but no less rewarding!

 

Racing back towards Stonyhurst College, you'll finish with the iconic building in the background, for a super photo finish and completing the eleventy one (11.1km) course.

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