What's On Archive
Past monthly editions
Each month we pick the most interesting Australian running events coming up — trail races, marathons, ultras, and community events worth putting in your calendar.
November 2026
Best Races to Enter Right Now — November 2026
Five races in the first fortnight — a clifftop trail run in Bouddi National Park, a Queensland state mountain championship on 1,200m of climb, a half marathon through the Coonawarra vineyards, and a far-south Tasmanian fun run that has raised $123,000 for a children's ICU. Who each one is really for.
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October 2026
Best Races to Enter Right Now — October 2026
Six races across five weeks — a Sunshine Coast hundred that qualifies you for Western States, three days on the Bibbulmun Track out of Denmark, a 35km walk from the Adelaide Hills to Glenelg, and a north-west Tasmanian ten that has run every October since 1985. What each costs, and who it's actually for.
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September 2026
Best Races to Enter Right Now — September 2026
Seven races from early September to early October — a Perth Hills marathon built around one of the city's hardest climbs, a Far North Queensland trail marathon over the saddle between Queensland's two highest peaks, and a three-day ultra weekend in a NSW forest that exists partly to defend it. Here's what each one costs, who it suits, and who should skip it.
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August 2026
Best Races to Enter Right Now — August 2026
Six winter races from a flat Sunshine Coast marathon to a hundred kilometres of frosted Canberra trail — plus a Bellarine rail trail shadowed by a working steam locomotive and a running festival on a Bass Strait island of 900 people. Here's what's worth entering across Australia this August.
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June–July 2026
Best Races to Enter Right Now — June & July 2026
The Gold Coast Marathon headlines the deepest fortnight in Australian winter running — 42,000 entries and counting — alongside a tide-timed marathon on Broome's Cable Beach, desert races at Uluru and Broken Hill, and a hundred-miler down the Heysen Trail to Adelaide Oval. Seven races worth entering right now, and who each one actually suits.
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April 2026
Best Races to Enter Right Now — April 2026
Five races for early autumn — an inaugural trail festival on new riverside tracks in the Wimmera, the Hobart Marathon's Derwent foreshore lap, Sydney Harbour swimrun, Five Peaks across the Adelaide Hills, and a community trail run through the volcanic outcrops of central Queensland. Here's what's worth entering for April and early May.
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March 2026
Best Races to Enter Right Now — March 2026
Five Australian races worth entering before autumn closes in: King Island's coast-to-coast classic, a Gold Coast wildlife conservation trail run, SA's first coastal surf run, the NSW Mountain Running Championships on volcanic peaks above Orange, and Bendigo's Easter mile in front of 20,000 spectators.
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