Friday
7 August 2026
From Rochdale to
Manchester city centre
distance: 12.5 km
total ascent: 111 m
total descent: 194 m
Terrain: Town, Roads
“Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.”
Dalai Lama
Saturday
8 August 2026
From Manchester city centre to
Stockport
distance: 9 km
total ascent: 129 m
total descent: 117 m
Terrain: Town, Roads
“We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Sunday
9 August 2026
From Stockport to
New Mills
distance: 8.2 km
total ascent: 377 m
total descent: 289 m
Terrain: Town, Fields
“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
Mother Teresa
Monday
10 August 2026
Rest day
New Mills
“Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.”
Ronald Reagan
Tuesday
11 August 2026
From New Mills to
Buxton
distance: 9.8 km
total ascent: 495 m
total descent: 364 m
Terrain: River, Fields
“You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.”
Eckhart Tolle
Wednesday
12 August 2026
From Buxton to
Bakewell
distance: 12.3 km
total ascent: 528 m
total descent: 701 m
“Do not be afraid to take a chance on peace, to teach peace, to live peace.”
Pope John Paul II
Thursday
13 August 2026
From Bakewell to
Hartington
“There never was a good war or a bad peace.”
