Isaac’s Tea Trail Ultra - Backwards

The race route follows Isaac’s Tea Trail, a 37-mile loop from Allendale, via Ninebanks, Alston and Nenthead before returning back to Allendale. The run route is completely within the North Pennines AONB, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) and a UNESCO Global Geopark. The North Pennines is a stunning landscape of open heather moors and peatlands, attractive dales and hay meadows, tumbling upland rivers, wonderful woods, welcoming communities, intriguing imprints of a mining and industrial past, distinctive birds, animals and plants and much, much more. The race route will follow the finger posts and Isaac’s Tea Trail markers through some stunning landscapes, on a great mixture of farmland, meandering riverside trails, beautiful villages, flower filled meadows and moorland. We will have marshals at key points along the route, but other than the permanent signage this event is a self navigating challenge. Map and a GPX file are available to download. You will have plenty of time 12 hrs in total to complete the route which means you need to average approx 3 mph, which makes this event suitable for a good mix of abilities. Well worth a try. You can always enter as a team too. Three runners, which gives you a chance to come along and sample the atmosphere and a section of the route.