King Charles III Coastal Challenge

WHAT IS IT?

The King Charles III Coastal Challenge involves each entrant running/walking an approximately 30 mile segment of the English or Welsh coast path on a date that suits them between 7th April and 7th October 2024. Some sections of the King Charles III England Coast Path are not yet officially open but are due to be during 2024. There are existing paths that cover the entire UK Mainland Coast – the Wales Coast Path is already established and there are paths that cover the whole of the English coast, albeit with small inland diversions here and there. Between all entrants we aim to cover the entirety of the English and Welsh coast within the timeframe, with a view to something even bigger in 2025 should it be successful/enjoyable!

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HOW DOES IT WORK?

Segments have been divided with the help of technical wizard Tris Clark, and they are available to view on THIS page, where there is also a link to a map of unallocated segments. You can enter now, then we will be in contact via email and you can tell us which segment you want to take on. You will also be invited to a Facebook group for entrants should you wish to join it.

You might see this as an opportunity to visit one of your favourite bits of coastline and get a medal for your troubles, you may see it as an opportunity to discover a new piece of coastline, or you may just want to ‘take one for the team’ and choose what you think will be an unpopular location with the aim that the whole thing gets done! We don’t want anyone to have to go far out of their way so this gets done – the idea is that those who want to travel far can but those who want to stay local can do that too. The most important thing is that every part of the UK coastline gets done overall, but due to the nature of this event we can work as a team so it happens. If there are sections nobody seems to want to do we will put out pleas on our Facebook page ; )

This is NOT a virtual event! Everyone who takes part will actually go and run/walk their segment of coastline in real life. If you want a good virtual event we can recommend End to End Challenges, who do that superbly 🙂 …. Virtual Challenges – End To End Virtual Challenges