Every adult festival ticket includes one trail race of a 5km, 10km, 16km or 27km distance, or you can pay extra entrance fee for the Ultra-Trail Gower Peninsula® 52km, or the Multi-day Ultra Marathon 77km. which must be pre-booked in advance, before the deadline.

Trail races are fully marked, chip-timed, and supported routes with aid stations (note: the 5km does not have an aid station) and a lovingly made medal provided at the end. You'll start & finish in the main festival site, with high energy music and the crowds to match. The best finish line to a race, ever!

If you are a Premium ticket holder, you can participate in an unlimited number of races, including the ultra distances at no extra cost.

Bookings for the free trail races are open now and can be booked through your account. Bookings for the longer distances (Ultra-Trail Gower Peninsula® and Multi-Day Trail Race) are open for booking here.​

If you're a guest (and your friend purchased your festival ticket) they can book for you, or invite you to their booking for you to choose yourself. You can find out how to do that here.
​
Booking a trail race at Love Trails is essential if you’d like a spot on the start line - it means we’ll have a bib, timing chip, medal and on course nutrition ready and waiting for you in July. We cannot allow any entries on the day.

How to book your trail race:

​Step 1) Log in to your bookings here You'll need the email address & password you used to book your festival ticket

Step 2) See your Love Trails Festival ticket in your account

Step 3) Click on the black text link called 'Make Selections' (you'll need to do that for each guest if you have multiple tickets)
​Step 4) Select one trail race from the list and confirm your selection

For more details of each trail race including routes, please check out our dedicated Trail Race page here.

5km: Approx. 5km with 112m elevation

10km: Approx. 10km with 206m elevation
16km: Approx. 16km with 400m elevation

27km: Approx. 25km with 804m elevation

*Ultra-Trail Gower Peninsula®: Approx. 52km with 1173m elevation

*Multi-day Ultra Marathon 79km (Day 1: Approx. 52km with 1173m elevation, Day 2: Approx. 25km with 804m elevation)

*You can pay a supplement to take part in these longer distances - click here to book these.

This is the mandatory kit list which should be used as a guide if you are taking part in a Trail Race at the festival. It is the sole responsibility of the participant to wear or carry the items with them at all times from start to finish. Whilst we will not be doing kit checks at race registration, the event team reserves the right to ask participants to withdraw from the event if they are not carrying the correct kit.

The deadline for changing trail races will be in Spring 2025 (official date tbd), and you'll be sent email reminders when to do so. We set a deadline so that we know how many medals to make, how many ribbons to order, and make final arrangements for the correct number of entries. This helps us plan better, and leaves us with less waste!

If you're injured and can no longer run your distance, there's a tonne of other incredible things on the programme to get stuck in to. Please don't email us about changing your trail races as we won't be able to reply or amend it for you. Thank you for your understanding.
​

Anyone can take part in a trail race and we encourage you to do so at your own pace. You can choose to race, run, jog, or hike the trail races. All the trail races include a mixture of rough bridleways and footpaths, so you should be comfortable moving across this type of terrain.

As with all running challenges of this nature, you’ll need to be sure you have the appropriate level of fitness to complete the distance you have chosen.
​

There will be several aid stations on the 10km, 16km, 27km, Ultra-Marathon & Multi-Day routes offering a variety of hydration and food.

For details on aid stations, including locations & distances, check out the Trail Race pages here.
​
​

We want to allow people to be able to run or hike the trail races at their own pace, however, we will be adding in cut off times for aid stations in the longer trail races so we can ensure our volunteers, marshals and race team are operating safely and efficiently.

The cut off times will be lenient, and allow for people to run/hike/walk the routes, but having them in place allows us to keep our volunteers, marshals, and race team safe. We will have a member of crew walking behind the slowest participant.

Please note, that if you leave or deviate off the route (i.e to go to the beach or pub!) then you won’t be accounted for along the route and we will start dismantling route marking signage and closing any aid stations.

The cut off times will be lenient, and allow for people to run/hike/walk the routes, but having them in place allows us to keep our volunteers, marshals, and race team safe.

We cannot allow any entries on the day for trail races.

As with all trail races, we set a deadline so that we know how many medals to make (they're made locally in the Gower!), how many ribbons to order, and make final arrangements for the correct number of entries. This helps us plan better, and leaves us with less waste!

There are a tonne of other incredible things on the programme to get stuck in to, including loads of Running Experiences which don't require pre-booking, you can just show up! https://www.lovetrailsfestival.co.uk/explore-running

If you booked one of the free trail races included in your festival ticket (5km, 10km or 27km) you can access your bookings at any time to check which trail race you booked.

​Click here to access your booking

Your confirmed trail race distance can be viewed under 'Guest Selections'.