West Cornwall / Coast path
Cousin Jack
St Just to St Ives on the coast path: 18 miles over West Penwith's roughest ground, with a 35-mile out-and-back for the ultra field.
Sat 6 Mar 2027
St Just to St Ives
Confirmed / last checked 2026-07-12
- Distances
- 18 mi (Classic) / 35 mi (Ultra)
- Terrain
- Coast path
- Organiser
- Bys Vyken Events
- Last checked
- 2026-07-12
What to expect
The Classic runs the same line as this site's recorded St Just to St Ives route — boulder fields, bogs and all — with a safety cutoff at Zennor Head; the Ultra starts in St Ives, touches Cape Cornwall and comes back. March strips the crowds out and puts the weather in. If you want to know exactly what you are signing up for, the recorded route page is the honest preview.
Recce ground
Train on the ground it covers
Routes from the directory on or near this race’s terrain, with mapped lines, elevation profiles and GPX downloads.
Recorded route line
Coast path
St Just to St Ives Coast Path
A full day on the far west's mining coast: engine houses, boulder fields and thirty kilometres of ground that never settles.
- Distance
- 30.0 km
- Gain
- 882 m
Verified
Recorded route line
Coast path
Zennor to St Ives Coast Path
Granite boulders, sheep fields and stone stiles along the hardest short stretch of coast path in the far west.
- Distance
- 10.7 km
- Gain
- 304 m
Field checked
Mapped route line
Trail
St Ives Island and Knill's Monument Loop
Town streets, chapel headland and a granite obelisk on the hill: St Ives condensed into one climbing loop.
- Distance
- 8.5 km
- Gain
- 254 m
Desk-researched