Anglesea · Great Ocean Road · VIC
A runnable course that rewards restraint, durability and smart pacing.
, starting and finishing at Anglesea on the Great Ocean Road. The course moves through sea cliffs, hard sand, technical reef and coastal hinterland. We train athletes to manage the runnable sections with restraint, build durability for the repeated coastal climbs and stay efficient as the terrain changes underfoot.
The second half of the full course: the hilly Currawong Falls crux, then clifftop trail past Moggs Creek and the Aireys Inlet lighthouse to a beach finish.
Official 50km CourseA loop from Anglesea to Torquay and back, then inland to Moggs Creek and home. Sea cliffs, hard sand, technical reef platforms and a genuine climb up Heartbreak Hill.
Official 100km 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, 100km or relay program built around the Great Ocean Road's coastal 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, fuelling, hydration, technical footing 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 or 100km solo, priced by distance.
Best value if you are training year round.
Run the 100km loop as a team: 2-person or 4-person relay.
Her Trails · Race Weekend Support
Training gets you to the start line ready. Race weekend in Anglesea is where the training becomes a shared experience. Travelling to the Great Ocean Road? 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 Noosa women swapping notes on heat strategy, UTA members trading tips before the Blue Mountains, and Surf Coast women comparing checkpoint plans in the lead up to race weekend. You can arrive alone. You will not race alone.
Surf Coast Century Through the Her Trails Lens
What the course demands
Earning the name "Feel Good Ultra" doesn't mean easy. Wide gravel and clifftop trail make up most of the course, but Leg 1 brings roughly 3km of genuinely technical reef and rock platforms, and Leg 3, the hilliest section, is remote 4WD track and slippery red clay past Heartbreak Hill.
Hard sand and soft sand both feature, tide-dependent, and the 100km finishes with 3.4km of beach when your legs are least ready for it.
This is a genuinely good first-ultra course. It still rewards pacing discipline and technical footwork over raw fitness.
How this program prepares you
Aerobic strength built deliberately, matched to your distance from the 50km to the full 100km loop, with sand running and technical reef footwork practised specifically.
Pacing discipline, fuelling and race day logistics are practised within your training, so the coastal exposure and tide-dependent sections are familiar before race day.
A program that respects real life while it builds the endurance this iconic coastline rewards.
Surf Coast Training
Her Trails builds dedicated, race specific coaching for the Surf Coast Century distances we support.
20 Week Program
The second half of the Surf Coast Century course: the hilliest section past Currawong Falls, then clifftop trail to a beach finish. Runnable coastal terrain where sustained rhythm and steady pacing matter more than climbing power.
$480 AUD · or 4×$140
View Program20 Week Program
Dramatic sea cliffs, coastal bushland and remote beaches on a full loop from Anglesea. Considered one of Australia's more runnable 100km events, but the distance still demands deep endurance and careful pacing.
$500 AUD · or 4×$150
View ProgramRunning the 100km loop as a team? See the relay options above, priced per runner.
Thinking Through Your Distance?
Practical coaching insight to help you understand the challenge before you choose.
From The Trail
The ground does not punish you for climbing. It punishes you for running well too early.
Surf Coast Century is genuinely one of the more accessible 100km courses in Australia, which is exactly what makes it deceptive. There is little terrain to force you to slow down, so the pace you choose on the first clifftop miles is the pace that decides your day.
Choosing Your Distance
Choosing Your First Ultra
Considering Surf Coast as a first 50km or first 100km. A practical look at what genuinely separates the two.
Read the Trail Note →Race Ready
Gear Systems for Long Trail Races
Coastal wind, sand and reef ask something different of your kit. A practical look at building a system you can rely on.
Read the Trail Note →Race specific coaching for the 50km, 100km solo or a relay spot, or full access as an All-In member.
Surf Coast Century Through the Her Trails Lens
Surf Coast Century rewards more than fitness. It rewards runners who can manage their effort, read the tide and hold pace over sand, reef and clifftop as the kilometres accumulate.
What the Courses Demand
The 50km and 100km both use mostly wide gravel and clifftop trail. That accessibility is part of the appeal, but a technical reef section on Leg 1 and the remote, hilly Leg 3 crux mean it's easy to spend too much energy early, especially before the sand finish.
The full 100km loop carries 2,285m of climbing across genuinely varied terrain, from hard sand to slippery red clay. Technical confidence you had fresh on Leg 1 has to still be there on Leg 4.
Across both distances, the goal is not simply to run well early. It is to keep executing good technical footwork as fatigue and terrain both change under you.
How Her Trails Prepares You
Each distance has its own progressive program, building the aerobic base that keeps pacing discipline and technical footwork reliable late in a long day.
Sand running, reef footwork and fuelling discipline are practised within your training, so managing tide-dependent terrain is familiar before race day.
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.
