Bright, Victorian Alps, VIC
in Bright, in the Victorian Alps. A SkyRunning classic through granite slabs, rocky ridgelines and exposed high country, climbing to The Horn on Mt Buffalo. Choose the 20km SkyRun, 42km SkyMarathon or 100km, solo or as a relay of 4.
Short but steep: highly technical alpine skyrunning around Mystic summit and Clearspot, with rocky ridgelines and exposed terrain.
Official SkyRun CourseA downhill mountain marathon from Mt Buffalo to Bright: technical descents, rocky terrain, roughly 1,542m up and 2,554m down.
Official SkyMarathon CourseFrom Bright to The Horn, the highest point on Mt Buffalo, and back. Steep rocky climbs, exposed ridges and technical descents throughout. Solo or relay of 4.
Official 100km CourseFour runners share the same Bright to The Horn course, each taking on one leg of Buffalo's technical climbs and descents.
Official Relay 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 20km, 42km or 100km program built around Buffalo's steep, technical alpine 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 descending, 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
20km, 42km or 100km, priced by distance.
Best value if you are training year round.
Split the 100km course into 4 legs with your team.
Her Trails · Race Weekend Support
Training gets you to the start line ready. Race weekend in Bright is where the training becomes a shared experience. Travelling to the Victorian Alps? 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 UTA women trading tips before the Blue Mountains, Kosci women comparing gear lists for the Snowies, and Buffalo women swapping start line nerves the night before in Bright. You can arrive alone. You will not race alone.
Buffalo Stampede Through the Her Trails Lens
Her Trails team take on the 100km relay
Buffalo Through the Her Trails Lens
What the course demands
Buffalo is not a runnable course. Granite slabs, rooty forest trail and sustained scrambling to The Horn make this genuinely technical terrain, with long climbs and extended, quad-crushing descents that demand strong eccentric control.
Victorian Alps weather can shift fast between a warm valley and a cold, wind-exposed ridge. A mandatory gear check applies, with a time penalty for missing items.
The 100km carries a previous 50km+ ultra completion requirement and expects night running. This is a course for athletes who are ready to climb and descend technical ground for hours.
How this program prepares you
Aerobic strength built deliberately, alongside targeted climbing and descending sessions and power hiking practice, matched to your distance from the 20km SkyRun to the full 100km.
Technical downhill skills, mandatory gear familiarity and fuelling for long hours on your feet are practised within training, not left for race week.
A program that respects real life while it builds the strength and composure this mountain asks for.
Buffalo Training
Her Trails builds dedicated, race specific coaching for every Buffalo Stampede distance we support.
16 Week Program
Short in distance but steep, with around 1,278m of climbing and exposed alpine sections around the Mystic and Clearspot loop. Builds strength and confidence on climbs and descents, with sharpened technical downhill skills.
$400 AUD · or 3×$149.50
View Program20 Week Program
Vertical strength and downhill control for Buffalo's demanding alpine terrain, Mt Buffalo to Bright. Steep ascents, exposed ridgelines and technical descending, with heat and altitude strategies built in.
$500 AUD · or 4×$149
View Program20 Week Program
Prepares you for extreme vertical and technical terrain: long back-to-backs, targeted climbing and descending sessions, and power hiking strength for Buffalo's unique mix of brutality and beauty.
$550 AUD · or 4×$149
View ProgramRunning the 100km as a team of 4? See the relay program above, priced per runner.
Real Voices
Drag or swipe to hear from women who have trained for and run Buffalo with Her Trails →
Ash on Buffalo Stampede and training with Her Trails
Ally on showing up even when you don't feel ready
Coach Sam on race prep and pack essentials
Tomie on returning to Buffalo after the 100km
Thinking Through Your Distance?
Practical coaching insight to help you understand the challenge before you choose.
Race Ready
The gear list is not a formality. On Buffalo, it is the difference between managing a cold ridge and being managed by it.
Buffalo's mandatory gear check comes with a real time penalty for missing items, and the terrain gives it good reason to. A practical look at building a kit system you can rely on when the valley is warm and the ridge is not.
Race Ready
Power Hiking as a Skill
On Buffalo's steepest climbs, an efficient hike often beats a forced jog. Why power hiking is trained, not improvised.
Read the Trail Note →Choosing Your Distance
Choosing Your First Ultra
Not sure whether the SkyRun or SkyMarathon is the right first step up. A practical look at what separates the distances.
Read the Trail Note →Race specific coaching for the SkyRun, SkyMarathon or 100km, or full access as an All-In member.
Buffalo Through the Her Trails Lens
Buffalo rewards more than technical skill. It rewards runners who arrive with the aerobic base and eccentric strength to keep executing that skill for hours, not just the first climb.
What the Courses Demand
Every Buffalo distance is genuinely technical: granite slabs, rooty forest trail, rocky ridgelines and steep scrambling. It's tempting to think the answer is purely technical skill, but skill degrades fast once you're aerobically depleted.
The 100km alone carries roughly 5,131m of climbing and descending, over up to 28 hours, much of it in the dark. Technical confidence you had fresh at hour two has to still be there at hour twenty.
Across all distances, the goal is not simply to climb and descend well once. It is to keep doing it accurately as fatigue, weather and light change around you.
How Her Trails Prepares You
Each distance has its own progressive program, building the aerobic base that keeps technical skill reliable late in the day, not just early.
Targeted climbing and descending sessions, eccentric strength work and power hiking practice are built into training, alongside mandatory gear familiarity and fuelling for long hours on technical ground.
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.
