Organising a race brings many responsibilities but none greater than taste testing the cakes!

We are pleased to confirm that the 2012 Great Lakeland 3Day™ has been confirmed as a qualifying race for the 2013 Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc®.

This year's event is now half full and on target reach maximum capacity at the beginning of April.

We are very happy to be working with Joe Faulkner and his team at NAV4 for the provision of our exclusive Mountain Running Essentials™ course.

After a break of two years, we wanted to ensure that the 2012 Great Lakeland 3Day™ was based right at the heart of the Lake District to guarantee that quintessential Cumbrian mountain experience.

The first 3Day event was in 1998 and called The Great Lakeland Trail Race. By 2000 the name had evolved to The Great Lakeland Challenge and this name was used for a few years until we learnt that there was charity bike/trek event with the same name. Consequently, the new name of the Great Lakeland 3Day™ or GL3D™ was born and used from then on – it also described the event much better.