Dursley Dozen

Some runners refer to it as the ultimate trail running experience… The 2025 Dursley Dozen will be the 35th edition of the event and starts on May Lane near The Old Spot, Dursley. The route will follow Hill Road ascending steeply for almost two hundred meters before entering woodland and climbing onto Stinchcombe Hill Golf Course. The race route then re-enters the woods and climbs and descends several times over the next two miles. As in previous years, the 2025 event is fortunate to have been allowed to use land at the Leaf and Ground café and shop for part of the race route. This venue is an excellent place for your family and friends to watch from and they’ll see competitors descend to the Leaf and Ground pond before climbing back up into the woods and onto the Golf Course. Undulating trails will lead to the infamous precipice where ropes are provided before runners emerge at Drakestone Point. Another mile of level-ish but exposed paths around the edge of golf course will bring runners back into the woods. A mile and a half of muddy woodland paths will take runners to a brief section of road and into more woodland before a steep descent down Axe Lane to the New Inn at Waterley Bottom. A steep ascent follows back to the hilltop and a circuit of Breakheart Quarry. A section of quiet country road then takes competitors back into the woods before the last descent into the town. The final sprint to the finish is down the pedestrianised Parsonage Street where spectators line both sides of the course and cheer every runner across the line. Here, outside the Dursley Market Hall building, finishers receive their hard-earned technical T-shirt and a few goodies from our extensive list of sponsors. The Dursley Dozen spares no hills and includes just over 2000 feet of climbing! The route is predominantly on woodland trails which are alternately muddy, stony, and with numerous roots and other obstacles along with some short road sections. If you’ve never entered, you’re going to love it!