Buffalo SkyMarathon 42K
Your Her Trails Training Journey
This is no ordinary marathon. The Buffalo SkyMarathon delivers 1,595m ascent and 2,620m descent across ridgelines, exposed climbs, and technical descents. To meet it, you’ll need vertical strength, downhill control, resilience, and clarity. That’s exactly what our program builds.
Program Starts: 10 Nov 2025
Duration: 20 Weeks
Race Day: 29 Mar 2026
How We Build You for Buffalo
Our 20-week program is purpose-built for Buffalo’s course profile. Every block is designed to support your performance, recovery, and readiness for the terrain ahead.
- ✔ Phased training blocks: base endurance → climbing strength → downhill control → taper & sharpen.
- ✔ Cycle-aware programming: intensity and recovery flow with hormonal rhythms, supporting energy and adaptation.
- ✔ Fuel & recovery integration: each block includes nutrition, sleep, and resilience practices to prevent burnout.
- ✔ Context coaching: weekly calls connect the “why” with the “how” so you train with clarity and purpose.
- ✔ Real-world testing: long runs, simulation sessions, and heat prep give you confidence before race day.
Training for the Whole Woman
- ✔ Female-led design: training shaped by female physiology, psychology, and the realities of women’s lives.
- ✔ Life-aware structure: we understand how training intersects with care, work, ageing, identity, and ambition.
- ✔ Nervous system support: strategies to train without depletion, and recover with depth.
Real-Time Coaching + Community
- ✔ Live weekly coaching calls: ask questions, gain context, and learn from the lived experience of others.
- ✔ Shared journey: our calls bring together women in your exact program and across the Her Trails ecosystem.
- ✔ Daily online community: grounded, encouraging, and full of real-time support.
What You’ll Receive
- ✔ 4–6 structured runs per week tailored to Buffalo’s alpine terrain + vertical load.
- ✔ 1–2 strength sessions to develop climbing power and downhill durability.
- ✔ 1–2 yoga/mobility sessions to restore and realign your body.
- ✔ Weekly live coaching + community calls to stay supported and on track.
- ✔ Daily online community access for encouragement and accountability.
- ✔ Nutrition + recovery strategies from ultra-experienced clinicians.
Boost your preparation with our Bright Summer Run Mission: the perfect lead-in block for Buffalo.
Alpine Summer Run Mission
6–8 February 2026 · Bright, VIC
The Buffalo SkyMarathon isn’t just a race: it’s a vertical, technical, and mentally demanding alpine challenge unlike anything else on the trail calendar.
Getting time on the course before race day is a game-changer: you'll move through exposed ridgelines, steep climbs, and wild descents with expert guidance. This mission helps you feel the terrain, practise fuelling and pacing in real conditions, and build the confidence to race with presence and purpose.
Whether you're preparing for Buffalo or simply drawn to adventure, mountains, and shared experience: this weekend offers the perfect blend of movement, coaching, and connection.
- ✔ 3 guided runs over key Buffalo Stampede course sections
- ✔ Accommodation and nourishing meals included
- ✔ Access to a variety of race fuels to test and learn
- ✔ Practical coaching: pacing, mindset, recovery and terrain tactics
- ✔ Carpooling support for local and interstate participants
- ✔ Family-friendly options available: email [email protected]
- ✔ All In Members: receive 15% off the mission
A chance to ground your Buffalo prep, elevate your confidence, and connect with like-minded women on trail.
Trying to work out what the best value approach is for you?
Standalone
- ✔ Buffalo SkyMarathon Program
- ✔ Access via app or desktop, as well as coaching & community platform
- Optional: Alpine Summer Run Mission
- $500 upfront or $596 instalments
- + $575 for Run Mission
- Total: $1,075 – $1,171
All In Membership
- ✔ Access to Buffalo SkyMarathon Program
- ✔ Access to any Her Trails program
- ✔ Alpine Summer Run Mission at $488.75
- ✔ 15% off HT merch + partner discounts
- $220/quarter over 12 months
- Total: $880 + $488.75 = $1,368.75
Included: Base Camp
- Monthly meditations and journal prompts
- Guest speaker sessions and unfiltered conversations
- Community Hub to connect and stay grounded
- Early retreat access + merch discounts
- Program previews, field notes, and reflection prompts
Flexible ways to access more ~ whether you’re starting with one program or going all in.
