Buffalo Stampede
Preparing for sustained climbing, alpine exposure, and technical descents with strength and control.
Bright & Mount Buffalo, VIC
Her Trails is a women-led endurance platform specialising in race-specific preparation. We donβt train distances in isolation. We prepare runners for elevation, terrain variability, and fatigue under load, with structure that builds durability, confidence, and long-term resilience.
Buffalo Stampede through the Her Trails lens
What Buffalo Stampede Asks of You
Buffalo Stampede does not soften its demands. Steep climbs and sustained descents require strength that is built deliberately, not borrowed on race day. Early overreach is rarely obvious here, but it is always paid for later.
Downhills are not recovery. They load the legs, challenge stability, and expose gaps in preparation. Fatigue accumulates through elevation, terrain changes, and repeated muscular effort.
This is where Her Trails places its focus. Strength, pacing restraint, technical confidence, and fuel discipline matter more than bravado. Preparation must support durability, decision making, and composure across a long day in the mountains.
Buffalo Stampede training, guided the Her Trails way
Choose Your Buffalo Stampede Pathway
Buffalo Stampede places very different demands across its distances. Each program is built for the elevation, terrain and muscular load specific to your event.
Every pathway is supported by Her Trails coaching, community connection, and a training philosophy centred on durability, pacing restraint and long term confidence in steep terrain.
Buffalo Stampede 100km
20 week program
For athletes preparing for prolonged climbing, technical descents and sustained fatigue. Focus on strength durability, fuelling under load and calm decision making deep into the race.
View 100km Program βSkymarathon 42.2km
20 week program
Designed for steep, technical mountain running. Emphasis on climbing efficiency, downhill resilience and holding form as fatigue rises.
View 42.2km Program βSkyrun 20km
16 week program
For runners stepping into steep alpine terrain. Focused on climbing strength, technical confidence and pacing control.
View Skyrun Program βBuffalo Relay
16 week program
Structured preparation for relay legs in alpine terrain. Built around intensity control, terrain specificity and team handover readiness.
View Relay Program βTwilight 10km
8 week program
Our Intermediate 10km Trail Program is ideal for runners targeting the Twilight event. Focused on efficiency, climbing rhythm and confident trail pacing.
View 10km Program βBuffalo Stampede Through the Her Trails Community
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Ash on Buffalo Stampede and training with Her Trails
Ally on showing up with the strength of a team
Coach Sam on race prep and pack essentials
Tomie on returning to Buffalo after the 100km
Optional Training Opportunities
Training Opportunity for UTA Athletes
Alpine Strength & Resilience Block
6 β 8 February Β· Bright & Mount Buffalo
A focused alpine training weekend designed to build strength, confidence,
and durability through sustained climbs, long descents, and warm summer conditions.
Why itβs valuable for UTA:
Practise pacing restraint, fuelling under pressure, and decision-making
in a supported group environment.
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Based in Bright and the Mount Buffalo region, this alpine block offers a supported environment to build skills that transfer directly into long runnable trail racing. While the terrain differs from the Blue Mountains, the training load is intentional.
Training together allows athletes to practise restraint, rhythm, and fuelling without comparison, while experiencing how fatigue accumulates across a full day.
Confidence under sustained load
Improved downhill durability
Repeatable fuelling strategies
Clearer decision-making under fatigue
