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Running · Ultra Marathons
Ultra Adelaide 100 Miler 2027
- Race day
- Saturday, 10 July 2027
- Location
- Adelaide Hills to Adelaide, South Australia
- Distance
- 100.7 mi / 162.1 km
Ultra Adelaide 100 Miler: midnight, 10 July 2027. 162km and 4,883m of climb down the Heysen Trail and Mount Lofty into the city, in 36 hours.
Ultra Adelaide 100 Miler Race Timeline
303 days to go
More than 126 days out — a good window to build a consistent base before ultra-specific training ramps up.
Ultra Adelaide 100 Miler 2027: quick answers
When is Ultra Adelaide 100 Miler 2027?
Ultra Adelaide 100 Miler 2027 takes place on Saturday, 10 July 2027, starting at 12:00am — midnight on the Saturday. Runners are bussed to their start line..
What time does Ultra Adelaide 100 Miler start?
Ultra Adelaide 100 Miler starts at 12:00am — midnight on the Saturday. Runners are bussed to their start line. from A point-to-point start in the Adelaide Hills, reached by event bus.
Where does Ultra Adelaide 100 Miler start and finish?
Ultra Adelaide 100 Miler starts at A point-to-point start in the Adelaide Hills, reached by event bus and finishes at Pinky Flat, on the River Torrens beside Adelaide Oval.
How many miles is Ultra Adelaide 100 Miler?
Ultra Adelaide 100 Miler is 100.7 miles (162.1km).
How much elevation gain does Ultra Adelaide 100 Miler have?
Ultra Adelaide 100 Miler has approximately 16020ft of total elevation gain. No. The organiser publishes 4,883m of ascent across 162.02km for the 100 miler — about 30m of climb per kilometre — with 3,639m across 104.13km for the 100K, 1,607m across 53.79km for the 50K, 1,040m across 34.99km for the 34K and 179m across 21.1km for the 21K. Those are real mountain numbers by Australian standards, and they come with a midnight start.
How much does Ultra Adelaide 100 Miler cost to enter?
Entries are open, direct through Ultra Series Australia. Entry fees, the entry process, aid stations, drop bags and the mandatory gear list are all published in the event’s own race manual.
How can I track a runner at Ultra Adelaide 100 Miler?
The event publishes a live tracking link for race weekend.
Key Race Metrics & Overview
- Date
- Saturday, 10 July 2027
- Distance
- 100.7 miles / 162.1km
- Location
- Adelaide Hills to Adelaide, South Australia
- Start Point
- A point-to-point start in the Adelaide Hills, reached by event bus
- Finish Point
- Pinky Flat, on the River Torrens beside Adelaide Oval
- Start time
- 12:00am — midnight on the Saturday. Runners are bussed to their start line.
- Elevation gain
- 16020 ft (4883m)
- Surface
- Trail — the Heysen Trail, Mount Lofty and the Morialta gorges, descending to sealed river path in the city
- Cut-off time
- Thirty-six hours for the 100 miler. The shorter distances run to 28, 26, 24 and 22 hours respectively — deliberately generous, and the organiser says so.
- Tracking app
- The event publishes a live tracking link for race weekend.
Not published by the organiser at the time of writing: age requirement. Verus records these as unconfirmed rather than estimating them — check the official race website closer to race day.
Direct Entry Summary
Entries are open, direct through Ultra Series Australia. Entry fees, the entry process, aid stations, drop bags and the mandatory gear list are all published in the event’s own race manual.
Ballot Policy
No ballot — entry is direct.
Ultra Adelaide 100 Miler Race Day Weather
A real forecast appears here once one exists for race day — usually about a week to ten days out. Nothing is shown until then, because a made-up forecast is worse than none.
Ultra Adelaide 100 Miler Route Map & Elevation Profile
Starting at A point-to-point start in the Adelaide Hills, reached by event bus and finishing at Pinky Flat, on the River Torrens beside Adelaide Oval. 16020 ft of total elevation gain across 100.7 miles.
Is Ultra Adelaide 100 Miler flat?
No. The organiser publishes 4,883m of ascent across 162.02km for the 100 miler — about 30m of climb per kilometre — with 3,639m across 104.13km for the 100K, 1,607m across 53.79km for the 50K, 1,040m across 34.99km for the 34K and 179m across 21.1km for the 21K. Those are real mountain numbers by Australian standards, and they come with a midnight start.
Ultra Adelaide 100 Miler Course Profile
16020 ft total elevation gain.
Tap a point on the course for details.
A point-to-point start in the Adelaide Hills, reached by event bus
Start line.
Mount Lofty
The high point above Adelaide, and the climb the course is built around. No per-climb figure is published, so none is stated.
The Morialta gorges
Steep, technical gorge trail on the way down towards the city.
Where Ultra Adelaide 100 Miler starts and finishes
Ultra Adelaide 100 Miler starts at A point-to-point start in the Adelaide Hills, reached by event bus and finishes at Pinky Flat, on the River Torrens beside Adelaide Oval. We haven't been able to place those on a map accurately enough to show one — a pin in the wrong place is worse than no pin.
These are the start and finish points, not the route. Verus doesn't hold course files for this race, and drawing a line between two pins would be a guess you might end up training on. The official course map is the one to use: view it on the organiser's site .
Full Ultra Adelaide 100 Miler Route Breakdown
One hundred and sixty-two kilometres from the mountains above Adelaide down into the middle of it. The course takes the rugged Heysen Trail, climbs Mount Lofty, traces the gorges at Morialta and then descends to finish on the lawns at Pinky Flat, beside the River Torrens and in front of Adelaide Oval. Every distance is point to point and downhill in net terms, and the event buses runners out to their start line so the whole day runs in one direction: towards the city.
Ultra Adelaide 100 Miler Pace Calculator & Splits
Ultra Adelaide 100 Miler Pace Calculator
Enter a target finish time to see your pace and projected splits.
Average pace / mile
2:23
Average pace / km
1:29
Ultra Adelaide 100 Miler Pace Chart
Split markers calculated for standard checkpoints — no official pacers are confirmed for this event.
| Target | Pace /mi | Pace /km | 5K | 10K | Half Marathon | 30K | Finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3:00 | 1:47 | 1:07 | 5:33 | 11:06 | 23:26 | 33:19 | 3:00:00 |
| 3:15 | 1:56 | 1:12 | 6:01 | 12:02 | 25:23 | 36:06 | 3:15:00 |
| 3:30 | 2:05 | 1:18 | 6:29 | 12:57 | 27:20 | 38:52 | 3:30:00 |
| 3:45 | 2:14 | 1:23 | 6:57 | 13:53 | 29:17 | 41:39 | 3:45:00 |
| 4:00 | 2:23 | 1:29 | 7:24 | 14:49 | 31:15 | 44:26 | 4:00:00 |
| 4:15 | 2:32 | 1:34 | 7:52 | 15:44 | 33:12 | 47:12 | 4:15:00 |
| 4:30 | 2:41 | 1:40 | 8:20 | 16:40 | 35:09 | 49:59 | 4:30:00 |
| 4:45 | 2:50 | 1:46 | 8:48 | 17:35 | 37:06 | 52:45 | 4:45:00 |
| 5:00 | 2:59 | 1:51 | 9:15 | 18:31 | 39:03 | 55:32 | 5:00:00 |
| 5:30 | 3:17 | 2:02 | 10:11 | 20:22 | 42:58 | 1:01:05 | 5:30:00 |
| 6:00 | 3:34 | 2:13 | 11:06 | 22:13 | 46:52 | 1:06:39 | 6:00:00 |
| 6:30 | 3:52 | 2:24 | 12:02 | 24:04 | 50:46 | 1:12:12 | 6:30:00 |
| 7:00 | 4:10 | 2:35 | 12:57 | 25:55 | 54:41 | 1:17:45 | 7:00:00 |
Ultra Adelaide 100 Miler Finish Time Estimator
Enter a recent 5K, 10K or Half Marathon time to estimate your Ultra Adelaide 100 Miler finish time.
Your 5K time
Estimated Ultra Adelaide 100 Miler finish
16:38:22
An estimate only, based on Pete Riegel's race-time prediction formula. Real marathon performance depends on endurance, training specificity, pacing and race-day conditions — not just your speed over a shorter distance.
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Start Your Verus JourneyUltra Adelaide 100 Miler Race Day Checklist
Tap items to mark off your race-day readiness.
- Every item on the published mandatory gear list, from the race manual
- A head torch with spares — a midnight start means the first hours and, for most, the second night too
- Warm layers for the Adelaide Hills in July, which is the coldest part of the South Australian year
- Drop bags packed to the published aid station list
- A bus time confirmed for your distance — you cannot drive to your own start line
- A plan for eating overnight, which is the hardest part of a midnight-start hundred
Training Strategy for Ultra Adelaide 100 Miler
20-24 weeks is the realistic window for a first 100.7-mile ultra, assuming you already have a marathon's worth of base behind you. The block that matters is back-to-back long weekends — a long run on Saturday followed by a second, slower one on Sunday — which builds time on feet and teaches you to run on tired legs without the recovery cost of one enormous day. Practise your race-day nutrition on every one of them; at this distance the stomach fails before the legs do.
This is a largely flat course, so most of your long runs can mirror that — flat and steady, building time on feet rather than hill strength.
Drop volume hard across the final three to four weeks — further out and steeper than a marathon taper, because a 30-mile training day costs weeks of recovery, not days. Keep some easy running and a little terrain-specific work in, but the goal is to reach A point-to-point start in the Adelaide Hills, reached by event bus with fresh feet and a rested gut rather than one more long run in the bank.
Lock in your target pace using the interactive splits calculator below — no official pacers are confirmed for this event, so a pace band on your watch is the more reliable option.
Test your race-day fuel and hydration plan on your long training runs, not for the first time on race day — check the Race Day Checklist below for what's actually on this course.
100.7-Mile Ultra Nutrition & Fueling Plan
A deliberate increase in carbohydrate over the two to three days before the race is the sensible approach at this distance.
There is no race morning. A midnight start means eating properly through the day before and treating the evening as the pre-race meal — which is worth rehearsing rather than improvising.
Over 162km and 4,883m of climb, fuelling is the race. The event publishes its aid station list and drop bag arrangements in the race manual; plan around what is actually there rather than what you expect.
Recovery starts with what you eat in that first hour — a mix of carbohydrate and protein is what the evidence supports, though at this distance recovery is measured in weeks.
Ultra Adelaide 100 Miler Charity Places 2027
No formal charity-place scheme published for this event.
Lead with your personal story — explain why the charity matters to you. Personal connection generates 3x more support than a generic link broadcast.
Share key training milestones on Instagram (first 10-miler, peak week, race week) with your fundraising link in bio. Publicly thanking donors prompts secondary gifts!
Running Ultra Adelaide 100 Miler for charity?
Link your JustGiving page to Verus and show up right here alongside other Ultra Adelaide 100 Miler fundraisers — goal, progress and story, all in one place.
Add Your Fundraiser to VerusWhere to Stay for Ultra Adelaide 100 Miler
Adelaide CBD
Walk to the finish at Pinky Flat, and to the buses. The obvious base for a race that ends in the city.
You start in the hills, so the bus time is what actually governs your night.
North Adelaide
Minutes from Pinky Flat across the Torrens, quieter than the CBD.
Fewer places to eat late, which matters before a midnight start.
Travel & Logistics
The finish at Pinky Flat is a short walk from the Adelaide CBD and Adelaide Railway Station. The starts are in the hills and reached only by the event bus.
Event buses run to every start line, which is how the point-to-point format works.
The course is trail for almost its whole length, joining sealed river path only for the descent into the city.
Spectator & Cheer Guide
Pinky Flat for the finish, beside Adelaide Oval and the Torrens — an unusually central place to finish an ultra. The published aid stations are the practical crew points.
Most of the course is in the hills and reachable only at the aid stations. The finish is in the middle of the city, which is the point.
The event publishes a live tracking link for race weekend.
Ultra Adelaide 100 Miler Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know for race weekend.
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Race details independently compiled and fact-checked by Tommo against the official Ultra Adelaide 100 Miler site , last verified August 2026. Always confirm official timings and policies directly prior to race day.