RaceLifts car sharing

13/04/2023

It is less than a month until the Ultra-Trail Snowdonia by UTMB races, a "feast of technical trails through mythical landscapes". 25K, 50K, 100K and 100M options. 95% of entrants live close enough to others to car share!

Ultra-Trail Snowdonia by UTMB® — the UK's only UTMB® World Series event.

08/03/2023

It's only 10 days until the Dark Skies Run @ Kielder Water in Northumberland: a series of 3 amazing races over 3 nights. Choose from 10 miles, half-marathon or full-marathon... or do all 3! 17-19th March. Northumberland is quite a drive for most people, so it makes even more sense to car share and this is the sixth year Trail Outlaws have used us to help.

Dark Skies Run @ Kielder. Fetching the darkness into the light... The UK's premier night race.

06/03/2023

It's less than a month until the Baildon Boundary Way 2023 on 2nd April 😀 This popular multi-terrain half marathon has used RaceLifts to encourage lift sharing for 4 years now.

Possibly the greatest multi terrain half marathon in the country!

07/02/2023

RaceLifts is not promoted on Facebook any more, but the website is still very much alive. It offers free car sharing to races all over the UK. So please get in touch with your race organisers and ask them to sign up! https://racelifts.org/

06/04/2017

The White Horse Hardmoors 26.2 (marathon, half + 10K distances) is this Sunday 9th April. Apologies for a glitch on the website where postcodes weren't recognised. This is now fixed. Have a great race!

All Hardmoors 26.2 series races will be taped and signed to help with navigation but in some situations signage and tape can go missing on the day of the event (whether it be accidental or deliberate) So competitors will be provided with a downloadable race route description and downloadable maps of...

14/09/2016

The summer racing season has been busy for car sharing :) As well as a great many running races, we've had the Buttermere Triathlon using the site, as well as our first mass swimming event - the Buttermere Open Water Swim!

Buttermere Open Water Swim

30/07/2016

An increasing number of road races are using RaceLifts car sharing, so I've just added this photo to the website home page. One of my shots from the very scenic Sheffield Half Marathon back in April.

25/02/2016

A last minute entry for car sharing - the Terry Nortley 10 mile Trail is Sunday 28th February! The entrants are almost all local, with the average drive only being 10 miles each way. But car sharing can still reduce congestion, pollution and parking headaches.

Radcliffe's classic, challenging 10 mile multi-terrain race, taking in a semi-rural route from Radcliffe, through the route of the Manchester, Bury and Rossendale Railway line and through Philips Park. Get your season off to a great start - the course is challenging but suitable for all abilities.…

18/02/2016

The Darwen Heritage Half Marathon is a scenic race on undulating roads, between Bolton and Blackburn. Popular with local runners, 32% of entrants live within walking distance! But everyone else can potentially car share. Sunday 3rd April.

Building on the extensive experience of Darwen Dashers races, this is our first road race in recent years. The route is similar to the old 'Roller Coaster' route, but with a new venue and slight alterations to the old route

15/02/2016

For the 2nd year Trail Outlaws "Dark Skies Run" event at Kielder will be using RaceLifts to encourage lift sharing. This marathon-distance night trail race starts Saturday 26th March.

Dark Skies Run. Trail Outlaws present a run set under the Northumerberland National Park Dark Skies at Kielder Forest.

12/02/2016

The Liverpool to Manchester Ultra Marathon is a 47 mile trail race following the beautiful Trans-Pennine Trail and the River Mersey from Liverpool to Manchester. It starts Saturday 26th March - please car share!

Top 20 Finishers earn a Gold L2M Medal, 21-100 Finishers earn a Silver L2M Medal and 101+ Finishers earn the Bronze L2M Medal.

11/02/2016

The first of several Beyond Marathon events this year to use car sharing is the Millennium Way Ultra on 6th March - a flat (!) 41 miles across Staffordshire.

Beyond Marathon are back with the 3rd edition of this really popular event (It sold out very fast in 2014 and in 2015!). Based on the same format of our other “Trail in a Day” event, The Gritstone Trail. We have created accessible, low key event without bells or whistles. Coach travel is included,…

10/02/2016

Our next event is the Glentress Trail Runs - with options of 10K, 21K (half) and 42K (full marathon) in the stunning Tweed Valley forest park. Saturday 27th February. This is the first of many events to support car sharing from experienced race organisers High Terrain Events.

Glentress Trail Race

10/02/2016

Already we have 42 races signed up for car sharing in 2016, and it is still only early February! :D (some of those races won't appear on the RaceLifts homepage until closer to the event, once everyone has entered)

08/02/2016

Our 3rd event on Sunday 14th February is the Thames Valley level C orienteering event on Christmas Common, near Oxford.

For an automatically updated list of nearby events of interest, see oevents.info (courtesy of Close Fit Software / Peter Davis SOC)

08/02/2016

Another great event on Sunday the 14th is the Hardmoors 26.2 Saltburn trail marathon across the North York Moors, and also includes half-marathon and 10K distance options.

The Hardmoors 26.2 Trail Marathon Series comprises 6 beautiful and challenging trail marathons, half-marathons and 10ks based in various different locations around the North York Moors.

01/02/2016

Our very first cycling event has just been added to RaceLifts - the Endurance Store Cumbrian Cracker Cycle Sportive is on Sunday the 14th February and has over 850 cyclists converging on Grasmere village. We hope lots of you will want to car share!

Events for extreme endurance athletes arranged by The Endurance Coach.

08/01/2016

Our latest orienteering event is at West Woods, Marlborough on January 24th, organised by North Wiltshire Orienteers (NWO). Please car share, as parking space is very limited.

06/01/2016

The first event to use RaceLifts from well respected organisers Epic Events is the Grizedale Trail 26 and Trail 13. A 2-loop marathon through the beautiful Grizedale Forest in the Lake District. Races start February 7th.

The first of the 2016 Trail26 trail running events will take place from Grizedale Forest Visitor’s Centre (LA22 0QJ). Situated close to Hawkeshead an...

21/12/2015

Our latest event to sign up for lift sharing is the epic 268-mile Montane Spine Race (and Spine Challenger 'fun run', only 108 miles ;) ). Can't wait to follow the runners progress on those live trackers again this year! Starts January 9th.

Welcome to the Official website of the MONTANE® Spine Race and Challenger. When we started this event, we hoped, but never could have believed, the profound effect the race has had; mostly on us but we hope on others too! From our humble beginnings (15 participants) the MONTANE® Spine Races have gro…

21/12/2015

Major news for 2016: RaceLifts is now working with leading online race entry service Fabian4 to make it easier for race organisers to provide lift sharing to their races :) This will mean car sharing to HUNDREDS of running, orienteering and biking races next year, and over 30,000 competitors!

An online event entry service for Orienteering, Biking, Triathlon, Fell Racing, Running and other events. Exceptional customer service and technical support combined with very competitive pricing.

18/12/2015

Ourea Events have 6 great races using RaceLifts in 2016 :D First up is the challenging Marmot Dark Mountains on January 30th, a mountain-marathon style event packed into one (very long!) winter's night.

Marmot Dark Mountains™ takes the classic mountain marathon format and packs it all into one winters night!

16/12/2015

Our latest event that is using RaceLifts for car sharing is the Central Lancashire New Year Half Marathon on January 3rd. Over 480 runners will tackle this fast course on quiet roads. Over 80% of them live within 2 miles of another runner doing the race, so there is no excuse not to car share :)

starting at 10am from St Marys Catholic School, Darkinson Lane, Lea Town, Preston PR4 0RJ

15/12/2015

After car sharing to our first orienteering event at Bradenham proved very popular, our next event is urban orienteering at RAF Halton on January 3rd, organised by Thames Valley Orienteering Club.

For an automatically updated list of nearby events of interest, see oevents.info (courtesy of Close Fit Software / Peter Davis SOC)

10/12/2015

RaceLifts was featured in the September 2015 issue of Runner's World magazine! :D You can read the full magazine online here - http://issuu.com/baoantram/docs/runner_s_world_magazine_september__

07/12/2015

The latest race to sign up for car sharing is the Peddlars Way Ultra on January 30th. 48 miles of runnable countryside (even in January ;) ) from the Suffolk border to the North Norfolk Coast.

Peddars Way Ultra (a fantastic opportunity to run a national trail in a day!) 30 Jan 2016 The Peddars Way runs from the Suffolk border to the North Norfolk Coast, all very runnable, even in the winter and navigation is easy! Total distance 48 miles approx. Good support throughout, well stocked check…

04/12/2015

The Hardmoors 26.2 trail marathon (Roseberry Topping) is using RaceLifts for car sharing - that is the 8th of the Hardmoors events so far this year :) Event is on December 13th across the North York Moors.

The Hardmoors 26.2 Trail Marathon Series comprises 6 beautiful and challenging trail marathons, half-marathons and 10ks based in various different locations around the North York Moors.

03/12/2015

Our very first orienteering event has signed up for car sharing :) The Thames Valley Orienteering Club is organising a level C event at Bradenham on December 13th.

For an automatically updated list of nearby events of interest, see oevents.info (courtesy of Close Fit Software / Peter Davis SOC)

23/11/2015

This excellent orienteering photo is now featured on our website homepage :) Many thanks to Wendy Carlyle for her kind permission to use it

22/11/2015

We've just started accepting orienteering events that want to use our lift sharing service :) Does anyone have a suitable orienteering action photo that we can use on the homepage please?