Date
Sat, 5 Jun 2027
Start
11:30
Venue
Grasmere Sports Field / Grasmere Showground, Stock Lane, Grasmere, Ambleside, Cumbria LA22 9SL
Goosnargh, Lancashire
Countdown
June
A proper step up: a waymarked loop through the Grasmere and Langdale valleys. 369 m of climbing over 17 km is steady and manageable, not brutal.
Key facts
01Minimum age 17
Create a free training plan for the Lake District Running Festival 17 km
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The course
The route
Goosnargh
Distance17km
Total climb369m
StartElevation
0 kmDrag map to rotate16.5 km
Weather
Early-June, Goosnargh
17°CTypical high
8°CTypical low
3°CColdest in 20 years
46%Days with rain
Highs around 17°C and lows around 8°C, but it has dropped to 3°C. Rain on 46% of days.
NASA POWER data, 2006-2025, the week either side of race day
Results
Course verified. Results not yet available.
Organiser
OrganiserOMM Events Team, in collaboration with Grasmere Gallop
Instagram@lakedistrict.runningfestival
Running since2022
Training
Training for the Lake District Running Festival 17 km
We don't do generic plans. We combine deep knowledge of this race's demands with your recent training, then build a plan with you that progresses as you do.
Beina integrates directly with your existing tools to understand your current fitness, and synchronise your planned sessions.
Intervals.icuWhat a Lake District Running Festival 17 km plan targets
Typical sessions
17 km with 369 m of climbing
Time on feet and fatigue resistance
Fuelling and pacing for the whole event
What your weeks look like
Typical sessions
Long runs that build time on your feet
Tempo and threshold sessions to hold race pace
Back-to-back weekend runs for fatigue resistance
Not a generic schedule
Typical sessions
Built from your current fitness and the time you actually have
Adapts every week as Beina learns how you respond
Syncs your sessions straight to Garmin and Wahoo
One clear next session, never a wall of spreadsheet
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Get your Lake District Running Festival 17 km plan.
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