- Sat 18 Jul 2026
06:45
Age 16 & over
£139
- 50 km multi terrain running + 1200 m ascent
Event overview
The Gower Peninsula Ultra Challenge® is part of the UK’s biggest and best series of treks and trail runs for a wide range of ages, fitness and experience levels which raises £10+ million a year for charities!
You’ll get full support all the way so you can set a new ultra-distance goal, conquer this breathtaking area and push yourself for an important cause. If you’re up for a charity ultra this year, make it the Gower Peninsular Ultra Challenge®.
The Ultra Challenge Experience
Do it at your own pace and enjoy the weekend. The level of support enables you to go further and achieve your goal. There are marquee rest stops, lots of food and drink, medical and massage teams, with a fully signed route to guide you.
An enormous finish-line celebration awaits with an amazing sense of achievement for you personally and also for your fundraising efforts.
Get Sponsored for Charity
You’ll be amazed how much you can raise on these tough ultra challenges as friends and family will recognise and support your courageous endeavours as you cover an impressive 50km! All fundraising goes directly to your charity via an online JustGiving page.
£10+ Million Fundraising
The series raises £10+ million a year for charities. Choose your charity, set up a JustGiving sponsorship page and make your challenge count!
Prefer to enter directly? General entry options are explained on the 1st Half 50K | Gower West Loop page.
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Event video
Charity places
The charities below have places in the event. To secure your charity place, simply find a charity then book a charity place or join a charity team with your own place.
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- Average fitness
- Beginner-friendly
- Event village
- Teams
Your challenge, your way
Whether you’re a walker and new to challenge events, an experienced trekker, a marathon enthusiast upping the distance, or a seasoned ultra runner – there’s an Ultra Challenge® for you! Walk, Jog, or Run – as an Individual or a Team, for a charity of your choice or just for you.
On the Full and 1st Half challenges, there’s a new Ultra Trailblazerz® option for ‘rapid runners’, and an Ultra March® option for ‘hasty hikers’, plus a friendly ‘Solo Challenger’ start time to join up with others.
The Gower Peninsula Ultra Challenge® is fun, safe, and rewarding, with full support all the way, a fantastic figure-of-eight route, and weekend camping options at the basecamp, enabling you to push yourself further in some wonderful, rugged countryside.
Best support & hospitality
This Ultra Challenge® famously lays on the best support and hospitality available on any UK endurance-style event. This enables you to step up and confidently tackle an 'Ultra' distance, with the best chance of success - and to enjoy your challenge!
- Check points
- Circular route
- Distance markers
- First aid
- Food stations
- Marshals
- Mass start
- Navigation not required
- Toilets
- Undulating
- Water stations
- Way markers
Overview
A perfect ‘Half’ challenge as a 50km – setting out from Penrice Castle basecamp, where there are a range of camping options and hospitality. It heads out on a clockwise west loop down to Oxwich Bay and its nature reserve, joining the stunning Wales Coast Path and along to Rhossili for a picnic lunch. Up along the bay, with its sand dunes, and across to Landimore Marsh, before dropping down south inland and joining the elevated Gower Way, with a final push back to the basecamp finish line at Penrice Castle.
Map
Included
- Snacks and drinks every 10-15km
- 25km | picnic lunch
- 50km | hot meal at basecamp
- Finish | glass of fizz, medal and t-shirt
- Accommodation
- Bag transfer
- Bar
- Cafe
- Camping
- Changing facilities
- Entertainment
- Paid parking
- Rural
- Secure bag storage
- Showers
How to start fundraising
You need to create your fundraising page on JustGiving within 48 hours of registering for your challenge. Then you can start your fundraising by sharing your page online with your friends and family.
Fundraise as a team
As long as you’re all fundraising for the same charity, you can create a team fundraising page on JustGiving. You will still have to reach the combined total fundraising amount as the target is per person, not per team.
Fundraising concerns
Speak to your charity about any worries. They are the experts and will offer you support, materials and inspiration throughout.
Remember only 50% of the target has to be reached 3 weeks before the challenge meaning you’ve got time after the challenge to impress everyone with your achievement and keep on fundraising.
Help for you
If you don’t reach the fundraising target, there are alternative options. You can always change to a self-funded place and still take part in the challenge.
Next steps
Once you've got your charity place, your details will be passed to the charity and you will hear from them within 14 days.
High level of service from your staff, the detail and accuracy of your administration and general professionalism of the whole event. First class delivery
Everyone was incredibly friendly and helpful. They couldn't do enough for you. All the people helping made the challenge an amazing event.
- Camping
- Chip timing
- Drinks
- Event app
- GPS tracking
- Map
- Massage
- Medal
- Pre-event training sessions
- Snacks
- Training plan
- T-shirt
Before
- Challenge app
- Facebook forum
- Training guides
- Fundraising support
- Training walks and runs
- Video briefings
- Travel planning
- Parking
During
- Baggage transfers
- The start line
- Timing and GPS tracking
- Rest stops
- Food and drink
- Medical support
- Camping
Along the route
- Fully signed route
- Apps, maps and GPS
- Route safety experts
- Emergency response
- Trek masters
- 24 hour control room
After
- Finish line experience
- Finish times and certificate
- Shuttles and transfers
- Hot meal
- Medical care and follow up
- Deals on future challenges
Bookable extras
- Camping packages
- Parking
- Pre challenge transfers
- Post challenge transfers
- Extra meals
- Baggage services
