Mountain Running teams

England Athletics Mountain Running Championships

• Senior: To be held in conjunction with the British Athletics up & down World Championships selection race, Whinlatter Forest on 17 August 2025.
• U20: To be held in conjunction with the British Athletics U20 up and down World Championships selection race, Whinlatter Forest on 17 August 2025.

2024 representative opportunities

• 23-25 May: WMRA World Cup and International Six Nations competition at Trofeo Nasego, Italy (senior teams, vertical and classic)
  • Trial: 12 April at Newlands Memorial Race | Selection: 14 April
• 14 June: International U18 Mountain Running Cup at Bratislava, Slovakia
  • Trial: 18 May at Sedbergh
• 19 July:  Snowdon International at Llanberis, Wales (senior team)
  • Trial: 14 June 2025 at Pen-Y-Ghent | Selection: 16 June
• 17 August: Senior Home International at Whinlatter Forest
  • Trial: 12 July at Tebay | Selection: 13 July
• 13 September: Junior Home International in Wales
  • Trial: 6 July at Clwydian | Selection: 10 July
• 26 October: Trofeo Vanoni relays, Italy (senior and U23 development teams)
  • Trial: 17 August at Whinlatter Forest | Selection: 20 August

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Training camps 2025

These camps are aimed at establishing the building blocks of future high performance in endurance running by developing skills and knowledge amongst junior runners and coaches. 

• 16 March: The Introduction to Mountain Running Camp is one day camp for juniors (aged 14 to 16) who have reached the age where International representation is a possibility, but is intended for any juniors showing potential who wish to improve.
• 28-30 March 2025: The Performance in Mountain Running Camp is for more experienced junior athletes (aged 17 to 19) transitioning to senior racing, it includes some training sessions on local hills and is residential.

Both camps are intended to be enjoyable, stimulating, and interesting, building relationships with peers and include talks delivered by experienced coaches, physiotherapists and sports scientists as well as inputs and insights from elite athletes.

Download full details of camps

Selection information

The committee will select the best available teams to represent England, although where shown some teams will be selected as development teams to give them experience of international competition. 

• All events in 2025 are subject to funding and England Athletics may amend the policies at any point.

• Selectors view trials as the primary means of selecting the teams. Where there is no trial or an athlete is unable to compete in the trial race, it is the athlete’s responsibility to provide the Chair of Selectors, Duncan Richards (Duncan@intouchltd.co.uk) with details of all performances they wish to be considered at the selection meeting. This information must be provided in advance of the trial race (where there is one) or before the advertised selection date. 

• Athletes will usually be informed of their selection within a week of the trial and/or deadline for expressions of interest. 

• Selection of all athletes is subject to the agreement of the athlete’s training and racing programme between the date of selection and the representative race by the committee. England Athletics reserves the right to de-select any athlete who is deemed unfit or injured in the lead up to the event. 

• Athletes wishing to be selected for races abroad must have a valid UK passport for the country they are travelling to and be eligible to represent England in international competitions. The selection committee reserves the right to de-select any athlete who does not provide all the information requested (including passport details) within a week of selection. 

• For all races, if the selectors believe that a minimum performance standard for selection has not been achieved, they reserve the right not to select a full team. To clarify - England Athletics do not intend to send teams to international events composed of athletes who have not demonstrated the level of performance required.

Updates will be published here on the England Athletics website and on the Fell Running Association website.

Image: Charlie Allmond. Photo by Steve Ashworth (steveashworthmedia).