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 […]