Mount Zero to Dunkeld, Gariwerd, VIC
across Gariwerd, the Grampians National Park, based at Halls Gap. A point to point traverse from Mount Zero to Dunkeld through sandstone ridges, stone staircases and native bushland. Choose the 50km, the full 162km Miler solo or staged, or run it as a team relay.
Rocky ridgelines, sustained climbs and the Mt Difficult crux. A demanding 9 to 12 hour day on technical, exposed terrain.
Official GPT 50km CourseThe full end to end crossing, run continuously. Sandstone slabs, stone staircases and long exposed ridgelines, much of it through the night.
Official 100 Mile Solo CourseThe same 162km crossing, run across 4 consecutive days. Every runner sleeps at the Halls Gap event village between stages.
Official 100 Mile Staged CourseWhy Her Trails
Her Trails brings together event-specific programming, weekly coaching, female-focused education and a community preparing for the same race weekend.
A progressive 50km, 100 Mile Solo, Staged or Relay program built around Gariwerd's technical sandstone terrain and the demands of your distance.
Bring your training, injury, pacing, fuelling, recovery and race day questions to a live group coaching call each week. Ask live or submit your question beforehand, with replays available afterwards.
Practical education woven throughout the program on menstrual cycles, perimenopause, menopause, pelvic health, fuelling, energy availability, recovery and injury risk.
Strength, mobility and recovery practices sit inside the training program. They are not treated as optional extras or referred to another product.
Prepare alongside women taking on the same event. Share the uncertain weeks, long run lessons, questions, progress and race week anticipation with people who understand the goal.
Practise pacing, technical footwork, mandatory gear, fuelling and race day logistics during the training block, before those decisions carry consequences.
A plan on its own is just numbers on a page. Her Trails turns those numbers into training you understand, support you can lean on, and a community that gets you to the start line ready.
How Do I Join
50km, 100 Mile Solo or 100 Mile Staged, priced by distance.
Best value if you are training year round.
Run the full 162km as a team: a 4-person continuous relay or a 3-person 4-day stage relay.
Her Trails · Race Weekend Support
Training gets you to the start line ready. Race weekend based at Halls Gap is where the training becomes a shared experience. Travelling to the Grampians? Get in touch and we'll help you plan around it.
This is where the magic of a Her Trails pinnacle event shows up. It is Buffalo women swapping start line nerves the night before, Kosci women comparing gear lists for their own alpine race, and GPT teammates handing off a leg on a mountain they trained for together. You can arrive alone. You will not race alone.
GPT Through the Her Trails Lens
What the course demands
GPT is genuinely technical: sandstone slabs, stone staircases and exposed ridgelines from Mount Zero to Dunkeld. This is not a runnable course. Footwork, patience and climbing strength matter more than raw pace.
The 100 Mile distances climb and descend 7,700m across highly exposed terrain, where overnight temperatures can drop to 6°C after a 24°C day. Mandatory gear, including two headlamps, is not optional.
Staged and relay formats add their own demand: recovering and running again the next day, or running your leg strong after hours of waiting or travel.
How this program prepares you
Climbing strength, careful footwork and technical descending confidence built deliberately, matched to your distance and format, whether that's the 50km or the full 162km crossing.
Mandatory gear familiarity, night running preparation and multi-day recovery strategies are practised within training, not left for race week.
A program that respects real life while it builds the patience and durability Gariwerd's terrain rewards.
GPT Training
Her Trails builds dedicated, race specific coaching for the GPT distances and formats we support.
20 Week Program
One of the toughest short ultras on the scene: 49.5km with roughly 2,040m of climbing across rocky ridgelines, sustained climbs and the Mt Difficult crux. Builds endurance, trail strength and technical confidence.
$450 AUD · or 3×$195
View Program20 Week Program
Preparation for one of the most demanding long-distance trails in Australia: the full 162km crossing. Builds physical resilience, strategic pacing and mental endurance for steep elevation and remote technical sections.
$549 AUD · or 4×$169
View Program20 Week Program
The same 162km crossing across 4 consecutive days, sleeping at Halls Gap between stages. Built specifically for staged race competitors: back to back endurance, strength and the resilience to start each day again.
$499 AUD · or 4×$149
View ProgramRunning the full crossing as a team? See the team relay options above, priced per runner.
Thinking Through Your Distance?
Practical coaching insight to help you understand the challenge before you choose.
Race Ready
Two headlamps is not a suggestion. On an exposed ridgeline at 2am, it is the difference between moving and stopping.
GPT's mandatory gear list reflects real terrain and real weather swings: a 24 degree day can drop to 6 degrees overnight on an exposed ridge. A practical look at building a kit system you can actually rely on.
Race Ready
Power Hiking as a Skill
On GPT's steepest stone staircases, an efficient hike often beats a forced jog. Why power hiking is trained, not improvised.
Read the Trail Note →Choosing Your Distance
Stepping Up to the 100km
Considering the leap from the 50km to a full 100 mile crossing. What the step up actually demands.
Read the Trail Note →Race specific coaching for the 50km, 100 Mile Solo, Staged or Relay, or full access as an All-In member.
GPT Through the Her Trails Lens
GPT rewards more than technical skill. It rewards runners who arrive with the aerobic base and eccentric strength to keep executing that skill for a very long day, or several of them.
What the Courses Demand
Every GPT distance is genuinely technical: sandstone slabs, stone staircases and rocky ridgelines through Gariwerd. It's tempting to think the answer is purely technical skill, but skill degrades fast once you're aerobically depleted.
The full crossing carries 7,700m of climbing over 162km, whether run continuously or across four staged days. Technical confidence you had fresh on day one has to still be there on day four, or hour twenty.
Across every distance and format, the goal is not simply to climb and descend well once. It is to keep doing it accurately as fatigue, weather and daylight change around you.
How Her Trails Prepares You
Each distance and format has its own progressive program, building the aerobic base that keeps technical skill reliable late in a long day, or across several of them.
Targeted climbing and descending sessions, back to back training for staged and relay formats, mandatory gear familiarity and night running preparation are built into training, not left for race week.
The programming goes beyond the sessions themselves, with in-depth guidance on pacing, fuelling, recovery, menstrual cycles, perimenopause and menopause, injury risk and adapting training around real life. Weekly live coaching calls give you a place to bring your own context, ask questions and work through when to maintain the plan, modify a session or step back.
Evidence-informed trail running guidance for women, written by the Her Trails coaching team.
