From Baildon Cricket & Rugby Sports Club (the Race HQ), go back down the narrow lane and continue down Heygate Lane until you come to two mini-roundabouts. Turn left into Ladderbanks Lane. Pass Bramham Drive on your right and the lane narrows into an enclosed path. Continue on passing Langley Lane on your right. Follow the narrow track winding downhill, go through a gate at the bottom into open land and a lake is ahead of you. Continue downhill towards the lake. The race will start from outside Tong Park-Esholt Cricket Club, adjacent to the lake. The distance from the Race HQ to the start is about 1,200 metres (all flat or downhill).

Follow the path uphill until you reach Tong Park War Memorial. Take the track to the right of the Memorial and go uphill to a gate with a stile to its right. Go through this and follow the track until you reach a made road. Cross the road and take the road almost opposite, signed "Public Footpath" to continue downhill. The road soon becomes a track which you follow downhill passing a converted Chapel on your right. The track meets a Y-junction. Take the right-hand fork. After 100 metres turn right at a T-junction and descend to meet the busy A6038 Otley Road. Turn sharp left at Otley Road and CROSS THE ROAD WITH CARE.

Turn right by the 50-mph sign to go across a field with Ghyll Beck Driving Range on your left. On reaching the road bear left, but be aware of any traffic as the road is narrow. Go round a couple of bends with a humpback bridge (1 mile) between them. Follow the road to Esholt village. In the village where the road bends to the left, go straight on up Pullan Lane with the original film site of ‘The Woolpack’ pub of TV programme ‘Emmerdale’ fame on your right, though it is partly obscured by trees. At the top of Pullan Lane turn right on the road. You are entering Esholt sewerage works! On reaching the third settlement tank on your right look to your left for a track, go on this and immediately turn left by a gatepost into the woods. Take the left-hand track climbing steeply through the trees to meet another track. Turn right up this track. Follow the track (2 miles) and go through a large opening in a wall. Continue on the main track for 60 metres. Turn right downhill. Follow the main track through the woods, eventually coming to a stream. Go over the bridge and stile to a lane and turn right. Follow this lane and descend slightly keeping to the right, ignoring a wide track on the left. Shortly after, where the lane leaves the wood at a T-junction, turn left on a track with a series of concrete slabs on the left.

Turn right at the T-junction and continue on to a tarmac path (3 miles). Cross a metal stile at the bottom of the hill and turn left. Pass a farm and the entrance to the Yorkshire Water works and continue on for a further 200 metres. Veer right before the bend in the road and go between two gate pillars. Take the new footpath to the right with wire fencing on both sides. Veer right at the end of the fencing and continue on with a high mesh fence on your left. At the end of the fence turn left on a track just before the river. You eventually come to a very narrow suspension bridge. Cross the bridge, taking care as there are bollards at both ends of the bridge, and go forward uphill to the canal. Go through a gap in the fence and turn right on the towpath passing the (4 miles) sign and continue to the Yorkshire Water gates and a swing bridge.

Turn left and cross the swing bridge (Drinks station) and immediately go right by a gate with no stile into the woods. The path, after passing under two large green pipes, will start to rise with the canal to your right. Where this path meets another, turn right towards a metal bridge. Aim to the left of the metal bridge and descend steeply (take care) towards the canal. Cross the stile to your left into open land and keep to the path adjacent to the canal passing the (5 miles) sign. Cross another stile at the entrance into more woods still keeping to the path adjacent to the canal. Eventually you reach a pylon immediately on your left. Where the path splits, take the right fork descending briefly to a swing bridge to your right. TAKE CARE TO AVOID THE METAL BARRIER. Go over the swing bridge and turn left onto the towpath. Continue on along the towpath passing the (6 miles) sign, go under a railway bridge and on to the next swing bridge.

Continue along the towpath passing the (7 miles) sign. At Ellis Briggs’ cycle shop go under the main road (bridge 207C) and continue on the towpath under bridges numbered 207B and 207E to Salts Mill on the edge of Saltaire. This Victorian village was designated a World Heritage site in December 2001. Go under the next unnumbered road bridge and continue on the towpath passing the (8 miles) marker. You will go up a small incline at Hirst Lock. Go through a gap in the low wall on your right, descend 3 small steps, and go straight ahead on the track aiming for a footbridge with a stone dome on your left. Cross the footbridge over the River Aire and immediately turn left. Pass another stone dome on your left and you come to a stream, cross the footbridge, then turn right up the lane to a road where you turn left along the unmade road known as Bird Cage Walk (Drinks Station).

Just before a gatehouse at the entrance of some woods turn right and follow a hedged path to a kissing gate. Go through and go straight ahead ignoring all other paths. After a short climb a wall appears on the left (9 miles). Follow this path which is steadily rising. Keep to the top edge of the woods. Eventually the path drops slightly to a flat open space, just emerging from the woods. Here take the path that branches off to the right and drops down to a stream. Turn right over a bridge, through a gate and bear left to go between two concrete bollards to head upwards over the moor. Keep straight on with a road to your right and the edge of the moor to your left (10 miles). A wall is met on your left. Follow to the road. Turn left and take the track between the wall and road bringing you out at a T-junction of roads near a cattle grid. CROSS THE ROAD WITH CARE.

Cross the road to continue along the edge of the moor with the wall to your left. On reaching a gate near to a putting green, pass through it and go straight ahead on to the gallops where Harvey Smith, the famous showjumper and racehorse trainer, exercises his horses. Head upwards and then bear right following the gallop track (11 miles) and heading towards the houses. Go through a gate before the houses and pass the houses on your right. On reaching a tarmac road go right. Continue on downhill eventually passing Faweather Farm and Cottage on your right and Faweather Grange on your left (12 miles). Continue down the track until the track bends to the left. Here go through the stile or the gate on your right to pass through Sconce Scout Camp car park.

Aim across the car park so that a wall is on your right and trees to your left. Go through the gated stile and over a small stream bridged by a stone slab. Follow the path across the moor aiming towards a white house (formerly a restaurant). CROSS THE ROAD WITH CARE. At the first telegraph post opposite the white house take the grassy path to the right climbing steeply to a car park. Proceed diagonally aiming towards a group of trees in the distance following a wide grassy path downhill and veering right. Drop down onto the narrow road and turn left (13 miles). Where the road bends to the left, veer right and go through the small gate to your right and the finish is ahead on the football field. Congratulations!