Running round in small circles never felt so good ❤️

A day hanging out with your running besties 🫶

Here's what 12-hours at One More Lap actually looks like:

You and your running buddies spending the day in your own little happy place, tagging each other in and out for laps while everyone else hangs out, eats snacks, listens to music, has a laugh and argues about whose turn it is to run next.

Because OML is a running event where most of the time you're not actually running. And that's pretty much the best bit.

Our camp is a magical place you just have to experience.

A relaxed, friendly, zero-pressure, community-powered, super-fun place. All day long it’s filled with gloriously decorated gazebos, flags and banners blowing in the breeze, the sizzle of food cooking on grills, the beat of live music & the buzz of teams and their supporters.

Oh, I wish I was there right now! Don’t you wish you were there right now?

As challenging as you want it to be

Ultras are intimidating, right? Only for the toughest of the tough?

Well, yeah, they can be. But at One More Lap we don’t break ultra-runners, we make them.

Our courses are short – between ¼ and one mile-long laps – and pan flat. Plus, you run as part of a team. So when you need a rest, you just head back into camp.

Which means OML is still a challenge, regardless of how good a runner you are. But it’s your challenge.

💪 If you're super fit, One More Lap will push you. How many laps can you smash out in 12 hours? Can you beat the team record (currently 109miles)? Can you keep going when your lungs are burning and legs are screaming? Bet you can.

🏃‍➡️ If you can just about manage 5k, this will be SUPER challenging. But guess what? You'll still absolutely smash it. You'll run further than you ever have before. You'll probably cry a bit (happy tears, we promise). But you'll surprise yourself & find new limits.

😎 If you just want to enjoy the vibe, do a few laps, cheer your teammates on, hang out in camp with a beer and some snacks, that's perfect too. This is the beauty of team events; everyone contributes in their own way.

And however you choose to do it, along the way, there are a few surprises – games, competitions and terrible, terrible jokes to name just three. All to help keep you going as you become a One More Lap ultra-runner.

Free + fundraising

One More Lap is where social running meets social good.

We’re doing all this to raise money for charity.

So, OML is free to enter, there’s literally no registration fee for teams* – not a penny. But by signing up each runner is committing to fundraise £100.

That's just 10 pounds from 10 pals.

You can do that.

Actually you’ll smash that too. Don’t believe us? Last year, in Lichfield, our runners raised an average of £210 each.

* Note from Ian: We do it ever so slightly differently for the few SOLO runners we have at OML. So, if you want to run SOLO, drop me a note.

Your community makes this happen

One More Lap ultras are organised by 50by50, a community business with a big heart, that throws fundraisers, free of charge, for small charities.

The kind of charities that might never be able to put on a fundraiser like this on their own.

And we can only do this because each One More Lap event is run by its local community.

So, the folks who set up the course? They're locals. The chap who signs you on? A local. The woman giving the run briefing? A local. The lap counter sat in the cold for 12 hours? A local. The charity you’re fundraising for? It’s a local one. And every cost is covered by local businesses.

You get the idea.

It's local community in action, start to finish.

A nice idea that got out of hand

If you’re looking for someone to point the finger at for all this, point it at Ian.

Back in 2023, staring down the barrel of turning 50 and gripped by a mid-life crisis (Note from Ian: it’s definitely not a mid-life crisis), he set himself a challenge – to raise £50,000 for charity before hitting the BIG FIVE-OH.

So, 50by50 was born.

Now, 50k is a lot of cupcakes, so a bake sale was out of the window. Instead, he came up with One More Lap.

It's exactly the kind of event he enjoys. A bit of escapism and some silly fun, a huge dollop of feelgood, all while pushing yourself to your limits.

Since then, OML has raised over £140,000 for charity – and Ian doesn’t even turn 50 until December 2028.

To every runner and every donor who’s helped raise that money, Ian would like to say a huge thank you as he basks in your glory.