ESCAPE FROM BRAN CASTLE

This November take on our new virtual challenge!

Bran Castle in Transylvania, Romania is the setting for Bram Stoker's Dracula and your goal is to escape from the undead, released on Halloween, and reach your chosen place of refuge!

You can choose your challenge distance from 50km, 100km, 200km or 300km in the entry form.

Set yourself an exercise goal and use this challenge as motivation to get out the door wherever and whenever is convenient for you.

Live Map now online

How does it work

All walks, runs and hikes count towards your total during the entire month.  You can join in any time before the close of the 30th November and backdate any activities from the 1st of November.

Register your miles either manually or automatically with Strava/Garmin or Fitbit and we'll plot your progress on our live map.

The challenge is virtual but the destinations and routes are real - you're visiting one of 4 cathedrals and photos are included in the gallery if you're interested in finding out more about them.

The Fortified Church of Prejmer
Sfintii Mari Imparati ,intocmai cu Apostolii , Constantin si mama sa Elena

Catedrala "Sfântul Gheorghe" - Topoloveni
"Saint Michael" Cathedral

Changing Goal Distances

We allow you to switch routes up until the closing date of the event, so if you're finding you're crushing your challenge and want to push harder, or time constraints mean you can't put in the miles you'd hoped - no problem!

But, if you've been caught, you'll stay caught!

To change your challenge, go to My Account -> Tickets and Entries.  Click the 'entry form' tab under the ticket for the event and make your changes to your form.

Teams

Want to compete as a team?  All your miles are combined into your team total and the distance goal you set is the team's goal.

To create a team, first enter this event then go to My Account -> Tickets and Entries and click the 'team' tab beneath the ticket for this challenge.  You can create a team or join an existing one from there.

Pacing Assistance

Things are different with this challenge.  The undead will reawaken on Halloween and give you a 7-day headstart to get away.  Then they will come after you, laying waste to everything in their path.  So you have chasers, not pacers!

The map will tell you how far ahead or behind pace you are and how many km/mi per day you need to complete from that point onwards.  If you're caught, you'll be infected and become one of the zombie horde but this is does not mean you have not achieved your goal - you can still complete the challenge and we'll gingerly hand you your medal (if you ordered one) at the end of a long pole.

Awards

It's important to us that we support local businesses and reduce the environmental impact of our events as far as possible.The base entry fee covers the event itself, mapping, and a downloadable completion certificate.  We recognise not everyone wants a medal so this time we are offering it as an optional extra for £6 which includes postage.

Our medals are 100% aluminium, made in the UK and can be easily recycled.

Awards will be posted out around the 8th December to allow time for everyone to log their final miles.

Logging Your Miles

It's very simple to record miles either manually, or automatically if you use Strava.

With Strava, Garmin or Fitbit

•         Below the map on this page find the 'connect service' button
•         Click that, chose your service and you'll be taken to it to approve the connection
•         That's it!

Note that - we request read-only access to your account which means that we cannot write to your page and we can only read public activities from public accounts.  Ensure your activities are recorded as one of 'hike', 'walk', 'run' or 'virtualrun'.  It may take up to an hour to collect your data and update the leaderboard.

Logging Manually

•         Log in to your Ultrabritain account and return to this page
•         Above the map you will find a blue 'Your Activities' button
•         Click that and a popup will show all activities we've recorded for you to date and let you log more
•         Recording is simply a matter of clicking the date on a calendar and entering the distance in either km or miles

You will have up until the 1st December to log miles accrued during November.