Our friend and West Highland Way Race committee member John Kynaston passed away in January 2021. John was dearly loved throughout the Scottish and UK ultra running community, and the West Highland Way Race would like to remember John by funding the replacement of a bridge on the West Highland Way trail in his memory. […]
Thats the entries closed! We have 435 entries. We have 299 people who have yet to get a goblet and 21 people who have more than 5 . There are 404 people from the UK, 11 from the US, 8 from Europe, 1 Kiwi, 1 Sth African, 1 from Reunion, 1 Canadian and yes 1
We are pleased to announce that the 2022 Altra West Highland Way Race will be an official qualifying race for the 2023 Western States 100. To qualify for Western States runners must complete the West Highland Way in under 30 hours. For more details see https://www.wser.org/qualifying-races/ We are also pleased to confirm that 2022 Altra
WHW Race is a Western States and UTMB qualifying race Read More »
2022 Ballot 300 Places will be available for the 2022 edition of the Altra West Highland Way Race. Registration for the balllot will open on November. 1st and will remain open until the end of November. The results of the west highland way race ballot will be announced at the start of December. For more
The West Highland Way race presents a new 38 mile ultramarathon called the Conic Canter. The race will take place on Saturday 11th September. Entries open at 1am on Saturday 19th June and will close at 12pm on Sunday 20th June. There are 300 places. If more than 300 people enter there will be a
This year the event will raise funds for ‘Play to Change’, a charity suggested by Katrina, Jo, Emma, Laura and Hollie Kynaston. Play for Change is an International Sport for Development Charity, which has the goal of enhancing life opportunities for under-privileged children by using the powerful values of sport https://www.playforchange.org We believe that raising funds
I wanted to let you know that entries will open soon for this year’s Virtual Altra West Highland Way Race. It will be organised along similar lines to last year, with entrants needing to cover 95 miles between 00.01 on Friday 11 June and 12 noon on Sunday 20 June. We’ll only have one cut-off
A couple of recent updates to the Altra WHW Race website which may be of interest A new GPX of the route is available for download. This is taken from the 2019 Race and includes the new finish at the Nevis Centre. Available here We recently asked the WHW family to submit their favourite pictures
I am very sorry to let you know that we have decided to cancel this year’s Altra West Highland Way Race. After a great deal of discussion, we have reached the conclusion that we believe there are too many significant concerns around the organisation of this year’s race to allow it to go ahead. We
Just a quick follow up to thank everyone for supporting the West Highland Way Inspiration night this week. It was our first zoom event with so many people, and thanks for all you feedback which is appreciated.For those who missed it, or those who want to replay any part of it ,we have now uploaded
