Running Races in West Yorkshire

Verus tracks 18 races across West Yorkshire at 5 different distances — 12 ultra marathons, 2 half marathons, 2 10Ks, 1 5K and 1 marathon. Few counties give you that much choice of what to actually run.

Racing here runs more or less year round — there is something on in 9 months of the twelve, with June the busiest. That makes West Yorkshire unusually easy to build a season around, because you are rarely more than a few weeks from a start line.

Terrain varies more than a single figure for West Yorkshire suggests. Of the 3 races here that publish an elevation figure, Haworth Hobble is the flattest at 5,300ft of climb and Stanza Stones 50 Mile Ultra — Summer Edition the hilliest at 6,600ft — a difference large enough to change what a target time means.

West Yorkshire also has 27 parkruns running every Saturday, free to enter — the weekly habit that sits underneath the race calendar above rather than competing with it.

Every race links through to its own page with entry details, the course, elevation where the organiser publishes it, and a pace calculator. Spotted a race in West Yorkshire that's missing? Suggest it and we'll research and add it.