Black Beacon 100 Mile
- Total distance: 160.9 km
- Location: Hay-on-wye
- Race Date: 30 Oct 2026
- Finish rate: 48%
- Navigation: Partial Self-Navigation
- Nearest Station: Builth Road (23.5 km)
- Night Running: 67.4% in darkness
- Pacing Complexity: High (54/100)
Black Beacon 100 Mile Overview
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Quick Facts
- Entrance Cost: £160
- Organiser: Run Walk Crawl
- Start Town: Hay-on-wye
- Dogs Allowed: Unknown
- Start Date: 30 Oct 2026
- End Date: 1 Nov 2026
- Start Time: 2:00 PM
- Final Cut-off: 42 hours
Navigation
- Type: Partial Self-Navigation
- Closest Train Station: Builth Road
- Distance from Start Line: 23.5 km
Eligibility
- Minimum Age: Unknown
- Gender Eligibility: All genders
- Minimum Entry Criteria: Unknown
Terrain & Elevation
The course is mainly trail (54%), with grass (25%) making up most of the rest. The terrain is highly fragmented, switching roughly every kilometre. This demands constant mental engagement and limits the ability to build a sustained rhythm from surface consistency alone. The longest unbroken stretch is 10.9 km of trail. Uphills are predominantly on trail (68% of ascending sections). Downhills are spread across a mix of surfaces, with trail most common.
- Trail / Path54% · 77.9 km
- Grass25% · 36.1 km
- Paved Road9% · 12.2 km
- Off-road / Unknown6% · 7.9 km
- Gravel / Track5% · 7.4 km
- Rocky1% · 1.5 km
Distance
161.0 km
Ascent
5612 m
Descent
5613 m
High Point
833 m
This race has a large ascent early on in the race, before a steady descent until about 71km, before a large descent towards the finish.
Compared against 27 other races of a similar distance, Black Beacon 100 Mile has more total elevation gain than 96% of them, and more elevation gain per kilometre than 100% of them — significantly hillier than typical for its distance.
Source: GPX Data
Climate
Navigation
Black Beacon 100 Mile is partial self-navigation: some sections are marked, but runners are expected to navigate independently — with a map, compass, or GPX file — for the rest of the course.
Source: Race Website - Explicit
Aid Stations
No aid station data available for this race yet.
Night Running
Black Beacon 100 Mile starts at 14:00 local time, with sunset around 16:47. Based on the median finisher time of 35:21:24, a runner at that pace would finish around 01:21 — after dark, spending around 23h 01m (65% of their race) running in darkness and covering roughly 105.1 km of the course after sunset.
Shaded stretches are expected to be run in the dark
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