The Lakeland Trails team are celebrating national recognition after being awarded the most scenic race in the UK award, along with an overall top three placing for the best running events in the UK by the publishers of Runnersworld magazine.
The first of the Lakeland Trails events, the Puma Hawkshead Trail Race and Challenge was rated third overall, when the list of the UK’s top 50 running events was published in this month’s magazine.
Race Director Graham Patten was enthusiastic when talking about the acolade saying: "It’ s a tremendous achievement for everyone involved in last year’s Lakeland Trails event in Hawkshead - competitors, marshals, landowners, sponsors and all the local businesses that supported the event.
"Last year was only the third year of the event, and to come from nowhere to being up with the biggest and best running events in the UK is a tremendous accolade for us".
Entries are now flooding in from all over the UK for the 2009 Puma Hawkshead Trail Race.
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