Schedule/Race Day Info – Race 1

Please note, the location and details for Race 1 of the 2025 Trail Running Series will be revealed soon and updated on this page. It is NOT at Smiths Gully as per 2024

Race Day Schedule

Sunday 1 June 2025

Times and distances below are TBC

7:00am – 8:45amRace registration open
8:30amSTART – LONG COURSE (25km)
8:45amSTART – MEDIUM COURSE (16km)
8:55amSTART – SHORT COURSE (8km)
10:45amMedium and Short course presentations and spot prize giveaways
12:00pmLong course presentations and spot prize giveaways

Event expo

The Event Expo and Start / Finish area including sponsors displays, food / coffee for sale, live music, race commentary, social media boards, presentations and plenty more.

All in all it’s a lovely, welcoming environment for everyone to enjoy whether you are running or not. For a full list of services see the Event Expo page.

The location

Event centre and race finish line:
TBC

Distance from the Melbourne CBD:
TBC

The start

Starting procedure

All distances will start racing with a single wave start at the following start times (Times are TBC for 2025)

  • 8:30am LONG COURSE – all runners start
  • 8:45am MEDIUM COURSE – all runners start
  • 8:55am SHORT COURSE – all runners start

Self-seeding

Please place yourself in the start chute according to your honest running ability, with fast runners near the front, recreational runners in the middle and those who are here to enjoy yourself towards the back.

Competitor number plates

Number plate identification

All competitors are required to wear their race number plate whilst running in the race. Numbers must be safely pinned to the front of your race top so it is clearly visible from the front.

  • GOLD number plates denote runners who have entered the entire Trail Running Series, doing all 3 of the events in the series.
  • RED, GREEN or BLUE number plates will be given to all other runners doing this race only, ie, who are not entered into the Series (Red –  Long, Green – Medium, Blue – Short courses)

If you have a GOLD number plate and are doing all races in the series please KEEP YOUR NUMBER PLATE and timing tag to use for all of your races in the series. We will not be re-issuing number plates to series runners.


Number plate collection

Competitors who entered Race 1 (or the Series) BEFORE 8:00am Wednesday 15 May 2024 will receive their event number plate in the post before the event. If you have not received your race plate by the Thursday before the event please email [email protected]. You will be able to collect a new race plate at the registration tent before the race starts.

Competitors who enter Race 1 AFTER 8:00am Wednesday 15 May 2024 must collect their event number plate from Registration on race morning.

Once you have received your number plate (either via post or collection) you do not need to ‘report in’ or register at the event venue on race morning, just warm up, arrive at the start line ready to race!

Headphones

We strongly encourage all runners NOT TO WEAR HEADPHONES or listen to music whilst running in the Trail Running Series events. This is primarily for your safety, so that runners wishing to overtake on a narrow section of track can communicate with you and advise where/how they’d like to pass without causing a crash. The courses also pass through some magnificent eucalypt bush land filled with birds and other wildlife that is all part of the trail running experience and if you’re pounding away to music you can’t hear that either!