Hilly Helmet X

The Hilly Helmet Challenge returns to Westbury's Leighton Recreation Centre for 2026, taking place on Wednesday 5th August with the run starting in the evening promptly at 7pm. 

It's been an amazing ride and we're excited to be in our 10th year as we once again aim to raise valuable funds for the charity Brain Tumour Support. Like many other charities, they recieve no government funding to aid the support they offer, so your support for this event really does help make a difference. As usual, 100% of your entry fee is received by the charity, with event costs being picked up by generous event partners. Please visit their website to see the range of services they provide at www.braintumoursupport.co.uk

So will you like Hilly Helmet? Well, in addition to the fact it's totally supporting the charity, we've won awards in 2019, 2022 & 2024 for the event from Racecheck based on participants ratings who loved it, so hopefully that might convince you. Also, every participant will receive one of our famous pottery mementos. We also give prizes to the first male and female finshers and of course there's a prize for the best helmet worn to take part on the night. It's 4 miles and yes there's a hill, but it does come down as well as go up, so we hope these are some factors that will persuade you to plan to join us this year.

In previous years we've had Leighton Recreation Centre make their facilitis available to us and our friends at Westbury Cricket Club have also provided refeshments and a BBQ, which we hope they will be doing again this year.

We've loved your creativity over the years and are sure the X to signify 10 years will get the grey matter working in your quest to win the best helmet prize, though keep it tasteful please! Even if you're not creative, taking part in a helmet you feel comfy in, decorated or not, will help you to experience the whole sensation of taking part in a helmet, an essential element of why the whole event came to be.

Please note that due to the nature of the course it is unsuitable for wheelchairs. Additionally with an eye on all our particpants safety, runners are not permitted to run with dogs while taking part as some trails get quite narrow and depending on the weather could also become slippery.

An Association of Running Clubs Race Permit will be in place for the event.

We're so grateful for your support and keen to keep our event good value at just £19 or £17 with £2 discount to members of ARC and England Athletics Affiliated clubs. This will rise to £21 & £23 respectively for on the night entry.

For information during the lead up to our event, please also follow our feeds on our website and on social media, www.orangehelmetevents.org.uk on Instagram, hillyhelmet, on Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/hillyhelmet and on Twitter,  https://twitter.com/HillyHelmet