Lancashire Valley Loop

Last year was the inaugural Lancashire Valley Loop ride, which saw 20 participants ride on behalf of The Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside, raising £1500 in support of our work.

Top fundraiser was Mr Edwin Booth, Chairman Booths Supermarkets, who received a Preston Recycling jersey as reward for his efforts. Booths also put in a team entry that raised further income on our behalf.

This year we are repeating the exercise, and hope to attract even more entries and raise even more in support of our valuable work in support of wildlife.

The Lancashire Valley Loop 100 ride offers breathtaking scenery and 5000ft ascent along quiet country lanes taking in some of Lancashire's most spectacular countryside. The route starts and finishes at Cockerham Village Hall and passes through Halton, Hornby, Slaidburn, Tosside, Whalley, Longridge, Bilsborrow and St Michaels on Wyre.

In addition we have a 45-mile loop, also run from Cockerham Village Hall, which visits idyllic Chipping, with its renown Cobbled Corner Café, rejoining the above route at Longridge.

The routes will be fully signed and marshalled with a refreshment station on the way to stock up on drink and energy supplies. There will be back up transport for those who run out of steam or experience technical difficulties, and St John's Ambulance will be present at ride headquarters throughout the day. All ages and abilities are welcome. Please encourage families and friends to sponsor your endeavours.

Leisure Lakes Bikes have kindly agreed to support this year's event and provided two cycle jerseys to the top fundraisers. www.LeisureLakesBikes.com.

Registration Form available here (word 52Kb)

Past Events

Cuerden Badger Series 10km

This year was the inaugural 10km run series run in the scenic Cuerden Valley Park, nr Chorley. It is a testing, multi-terrain route, which includes gates, stiles, fields and a ruined mill. All three events were run over the same challenging course on Thursday evenings in May, June and July. The course is well marked with marshals en-route. Presentations occur after each event with a substantial prize list, plus spot prizes and raffle. Plenty of car parking, changing facilities and refreshments are available.

Start and finish at The Barn, the Lancashire Wildlife Trust Visitor Centre, within easy access of Jct 28 / 29 M6, Jct 1 M65 or Jct 8 M61.

This is what they said:

"Great great fun and something I want to do again and again."

"Will I do it again ? Of course - it's never going to provide a pb for me as it's definitely a testing route - but the fun and scenic factor makes it worthwhile."

Why not come and join us next year? You could make those miles count even more by getting sponsorship for the 'Badger Set 2007' Get those trainers on. We look forward to seeing you!

Results of the races can be found here:

Race 1 results (18/05/06) pdf. 75.6KB
Race 2 results (22/06/06) pdf. 73.7KB
Race 3 results (20/07/06) pdf. 64.3KB

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