About the Northern Roll Series 2026

The annual Northern Roll Roller Ski Challenge Series comprises four
fun and sociable challenge events run by the four Snowsport England
affiliated cross-country ski clubs in the North of England.

Each event is hosted at a different closed cycle circuit and is designed to be inclusive to encourage more roller skiers to challenge themselves. They follow the same format – a challenge to roller ski as many laps as you can in one hour. You don’t have to do all four events, just come along to one if you can. And of course your chances of rising up the rankings increase with each challenge you enter. These fun events are ideal for training, or for skiers simply wanting to set themselves a challenge against the clock.

Each event will have four categories: Open Senior; Female Senior; Open Junior and Female Junior.

There will be a prize for the series winner in each category, plus an overall team prize - both to encourage more participants from each club to travel to different events. Those taking part will need to be either:

     - a registered member of Snowsport England – with blue-level membership or above,
     - a member of a Snowsport Scotland or Snowsport Cymru affiliated club,
     - a member of the British Nordic Development Squad. For members in this category, they will

        need to register in advance of the event on the Snowsport England membership system

        (Sport 80) as a non-member.

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The four events comprising the series in 2026 are:

     - Event #1 – Saturday 30 May - Leeds, West Yorkshire (hosted by Yorkshire Dales Cross

        Country Ski Club https://ydccsc.org.uk/)
     - Event #2 – Saturday 20 June – Preston, Lancashire (hosted by Manchester Cross Country Ski

        Club https://mccsc.org.uk/)
     - Event #3 – Sunday 5 July – Lancaster, Lancashire (hosted by Lakeland Cross Country Ski

        Club https://www.lakelandxcski.org.uk/)
     - Event #4 – Sunday 16 August – Hartlepool, Co. Durham (hosted by Tyneside Loipers

        https://tynesideloipers.org.uk/)

Details of each event will be on the clubs’ websites. Other roller ski challenge events and races can be found on the GB Roller Ski Series website: https://tinyurl.com/3ftb83n5.