Blue Mountains · NSW · Australia
UTA rewards restraint before it rewards speed.
Long runnable sections invite you to spend early. The climbs, stairs and cumulative fatigue decide whether you can keep moving well later. Her Trails prepares women for the terrain, pacing, fuelling and decisions each UTA distance actually demands.
UTA Training Programs By Distance
UTA11, UTA22, UTA50 and UTA100 share the Blue Mountains, but they do not ask the same thing of you. Distance changes the fatigue. Terrain changes the training. Each Her Trails program is built around both.
Prince Henry Cliff Walk, Echo Point and Leura Forest lead into a concentrated finish up the 951 Furber Steps. Short in distance, but with climbing and stairs packed into a relatively small window.
A sustained descent from Wentworth Falls into Kedumba Valley creates runnable early kilometres before climbing and stairs return. Managing the descent matters because the race still has to be climbed out of.
Runnable fire trail and sustained descending accumulate fatigue before the course asks for climbing strength again. The late race is shaped by how intelligently the early kilometres were managed.
More than 100 kilometres of fire trail, singletrack, escarpments, valleys and stairs. The challenge is no longer one climb in isolation. It is continuing to move and make useful decisions after many hours of accumulated fatigue.
Why Her Trails
Over the past five years, women from across the Her Trails community have come together to prepare for Ultra-Trail Australia through our event-specific training programs and coaching. That experience has shaped how we coach UTA today, with a deep understanding of the course, the demands of each distance, and what women need throughout the build to arrive at race weekend prepared and confident. UTA50 is where most of our women line up, and in 2026, Miao Yao ran a new UTA50 women's course record and closed to within half an hour of the outright men's winner. That is not a fluke. It is what happens when training is built for the exact demands of the course, whichever UTA distance you are racing, not just for finishing it.
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.
Sources: run247.com, UTA50 2026 results. Ultra-endurance performance research (Sitko et al., 2025) on the narrowing sex gap at longer distances.
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How close Miao Yao's 2026 UTA50 winning time came to the outright men's winner. Proof of what the distance rewards
Aerobic + strength
Enough aerobic capacity to cover the distance, enough strength to protect your legs when the trail starts taking its toll
Vertical + fuel
Enough vertical specificity to handle the climbs, enough fuelling capacity to support the work you are asking of your body
Restraint
Enough restraint left to still have an athlete when the course gets hardest. The pillar most plans skip
Her Trails brings together event-specific programming, weekly coaching, female-focused education and a community preparing for the same race weekend.
A progressive UTA11, UTA22, UTA50 or UTA100 program built around the Blue Mountains’ runnable fire trail, stair climbs 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, heat management, equipment, terrain, run walk strategy and race day logistics during the training block, before those decisions carry consequences.
How Do I Join
Three ways to train for UTA with Her Trails, from one race to every race.
UTA11, UTA22, UTA50 or UTA100, priced by distance.
Best value if you are training year round.
Race weekend accommodation, in-person preparation and event-specific essentials, on top of your program or membership.
UTA Through the Her Trails Lens
What the course demands
UTA's Blue Mountains trails are mostly runnable fire trail and forest singletrack, which makes pacing discipline the real test. Hours on feet, cumulative fatigue and, across the longer distances, the course's famous stairs, including the 951 Furber Steps to finish.
Runnable does not mean easy. Fatigue builds through duration and repetition, not technical difficulty.
May in the Blue Mountains can still run warm by afternoon, and pacing restraint early matters more than it looks like it should.
How this program prepares you
Aerobic strength built deliberately, and race specific long runs that mirror the demands of your distance, from the compact UTA11 to the full UTA100 crossing.
Stair strength and downhill control where it helps, fuelling discipline and heat readiness built into your training, not left to race week.
A program that respects real life while it prepares a steady mind for a long day on the fire trail and stairs.
UTA Training
Her Trails builds dedicated, race specific coaching for all four UTA distances we support.
14 Week Program
Begins 8 February 2027
Pure Blue Mountains magic in a short, sharp format: lush forest, stair-lined escarpments and the energy of race weekend in Katoomba. Builds the strength and rhythm to move confidently from Scenic World to the top of the Furber Steps.
$350 AUD · or 3×$130
View Program16 Week Program
Begins 25 January 2027
Through the breathtaking Blue Mountains, with 1,200m of climbing and the iconic Furber Steps finish. A challenging yet achievable course, perfect for new trail runners or a taste of UTA without the full ultra distance.
$450 AUD · or 3×$169
View Program20 Week Program
Begins 28 December 2026
The second half of the UTA100 course: Kedumba Valley, flowing descents then a brutal climb back out. Weekly coaching and a holistic, progressive plan so you arrive in the Blue Mountains feeling prepared.
$489 AUD
View Program20 Week Program
Begins 28 December 2026
The full Blue Mountains crossing, built by women for women: structured training, strength and resilience development, and clear progression through the physical and mental demands of the distance.
$590 AUD · or 4×$160
View ProgramThinking 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.
UTA's Blue Mountains trails are largely runnable fire trail, which is exactly what makes them unforgiving. There is little technical terrain to force you to slow down, so the pace you choose in the first hours is the pace that decides your day.
Choosing Your Distance
Choosing Your First Ultra
Not sure whether UTA11 or UTA22 is the right first step up. A practical look at what separates the distances and how to choose with confidence.
Read the Trail Note →Choosing Your Distance
Stepping Up to the 100km
Considering the UTA100. What the step up to 100km actually demands, and how to know if you are ready to build toward it.
Read the Trail Note →Race specific coaching for UTA11, UTA22, UTA50 and UTA100, or full access as an All-In member.
UTA Through the Her Trails Lens
UTA rewards more than fitness. It rewards runners who can manage their effort, fuel consistently and keep making useful decisions as the fire trail and stairs accumulate.
What the Courses Demand
The UTA11, UTA22, UTA50 and UTA100 use mostly non-technical, runnable fire trail and forest singletrack. That accessibility is part of the appeal, but it can also make it easy to spend too much energy early.
The challenge changes with the distance. The UTA11 rewards controlled effort and stair strength. The UTA22 adds sustained pacing and downhill efficiency through Kedumba Valley. The UTA50 and UTA100 require long-day management, strong legs on the stairs, and sound decisions under fatigue.
Across all 4 distances, the goal is not simply to start well. It is to preserve enough capacity to keep moving well through the 951 Furber Steps at the finish.
How Her Trails Prepares You
Each distance has its own progressive program, building aerobic fitness, stair strength and race-specific endurance without asking you to reproduce the full race in training.
Pacing, fuelling, hydration, heat management, equipment and downhill running technique are practised within your training, so they are 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.
Her Trails Coaching
Our UTA Pinnacle Event support gives you a way to be part of the Her Trails experience beyond the training plan, with options for race weekend support, in-person preparation, accommodation and event-specific essentials. Choose the level of support that best fits your race, your life and the kind of experience you want to be part of.
Race
Ultra-Trail Australia
Location
Blue Mountains, NSW
Training Camp
19 to 21 February
Accommodation
Extremely limited
Choose Your Package
Each package sits on top of your UTA program or All-In Membership. Pick the level of in-person and race weekend support that suits you.
Our most supported UTA offering, with immersive coaching and connection in the build and a fully hosted race weekend.
Accommodation places are extremely limited, with priority given to those choosing the Full Experience.
Monthly instalment pricing is available for this package.
Enquire About the Full ExperienceFor women who want the in-person training weekend and the key Her Trails essentials for race week.
Instalment pricing available. Ask us for the current rate when you enquire.
Enquire About the Training Camp + HoodieFor women following the Her Trails UTA program who want the event-specific hoodie for race weekend.
Ask us for pricing when you enquire.
Enquire About the HoodieFor women who want to stay with the Her Trails community and have our team alongside them across race weekend.
Not currently available
UTA 2027 accommodation is extremely limited, and the first spots are being held for women who take up Package 4. Register your interest and we will be in touch as soon as places open.
Register Your InterestEmail us and tell us a little about your race plans. We will help you find the right level of support, and let you know what is still available.
Evidence-informed trail running guidance for women, written by the Her Trails coaching team.
