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Running · Ultra Marathons
Ultra-Trail Australia UTA100 2027
- Race day
- Saturday, 15 May 2027
- Location
- Katoomba, Blue Mountains, New South Wales
- Distance
- 62.8 mi / 101.1 km
UTA100: 15 May 2027, Katoomba. 101km and 4,400m of climb in the Blue Mountains, the 951 Furber Steps, cut-offs and how entry works.
Ultra-Trail Australia UTA100 Race Timeline
247 days to go
More than 126 days out — a good window to build a consistent base before ultra-specific training ramps up.
Ultra-Trail Australia UTA100 2027: quick answers
When is Ultra-Trail Australia UTA100 2027?
Ultra-Trail Australia UTA100 2027 takes place on Saturday, 15 May 2027, starting at Wave starts from around 6:20am on the Saturday — exact 2027 wave times are published in the runner guide closer to the event..
What time does Ultra-Trail Australia UTA100 start?
Ultra-Trail Australia UTA100 starts at Wave starts from around 6:20am on the Saturday — exact 2027 wave times are published in the runner guide closer to the event. from Scenic World, Katoomba.
Where does Ultra-Trail Australia UTA100 start and finish?
Ultra-Trail Australia UTA100 starts at Scenic World, Katoomba and finishes at Scenic World, Katoomba.
How many miles is Ultra-Trail Australia UTA100?
Ultra-Trail Australia UTA100 is 62.8 miles (101.1km).
How much elevation gain does Ultra-Trail Australia UTA100 have?
Ultra-Trail Australia UTA100 has approximately 14436ft of total elevation gain. It is the opposite of flat, and the numbers say so plainly: 4,400m of vertical gain across 101km, which is roughly 43m of climb per kilometre. That is more than double what a hilly British hundred asks for. The climbing is also concentrated rather than rolling — the Golden Stairs, the exit from the Megalong Valley on the Six Foot Track, and finally 951 stone steps at 99km. Runners who train for the distance and not the ascent are the ones who meet the cut-offs on the way out and miss them on the way home.
How much does Ultra-Trail Australia UTA100 cost to enter?
Entry is direct through UTMB World Series, with tiered pricing. There is no qualifying-race prerequisite for UTA100, but results from UTMB World Series events, other trail races and road half marathons and marathons feed into your start-group seeding.
How can I track a runner at Ultra-Trail Australia UTA100?
Live tracking and finish-line streams run through UTMB World Series coverage across race weekend.
Key Race Metrics & Overview
- Date
- Saturday, 15 May 2027
- Distance
- 62.8 miles / 101.1km
- Location
- Katoomba, Blue Mountains, New South Wales
- Start Point
- Scenic World, Katoomba
- Finish Point
- Scenic World, Katoomba
- Start time
- Wave starts from around 6:20am on the Saturday — exact 2027 wave times are published in the runner guide closer to the event.
- Elevation gain
- 14436 ft (4400m)
- Surface
- Single track, fire trail, unsealed road and stone staircases through World Heritage bushland
- Cut-off time
- Twenty-eight hours overall, with intermediate cut-offs at checkpoints along the way. From a 6:20am Saturday start that puts the final cut-off at around 10:20am on the Sunday.
- Age requirement
- No qualifying race is required, but the organiser is explicit that entrants should already be experienced trail runners: the course is remote in sections and first-aid response times are correspondingly slow.
- Tracking app
- Live tracking and finish-line streams run through UTMB World Series coverage across race weekend.
Direct Entry Summary
Entry is direct through UTMB World Series, with tiered pricing. There is no qualifying-race prerequisite for UTA100, but results from UTMB World Series events, other trail races and road half marathons and marathons feed into your start-group seeding.
Ballot Policy
No ballot for UTA100 — entry is open, subject to capacity. What UTMB status does change is the currency: as a UTMB World Series Major, UTA awards double Running Stones, the tokens used to enter the lottery for the UTMB World Series Finals at Chamonix.
Ultra-Trail Australia UTA100 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-Trail Australia UTA100 Route Map & Elevation Profile
Starting at Scenic World, Katoomba and finishing at Scenic World, Katoomba. 14436 ft of total elevation gain across 62.8 miles.
Is Ultra-Trail Australia UTA100 flat?
It is the opposite of flat, and the numbers say so plainly: 4,400m of vertical gain across 101km, which is roughly 43m of climb per kilometre. That is more than double what a hilly British hundred asks for. The climbing is also concentrated rather than rolling — the Golden Stairs, the exit from the Megalong Valley on the Six Foot Track, and finally 951 stone steps at 99km. Runners who train for the distance and not the ascent are the ones who meet the cut-offs on the way out and miss them on the way home.
Ultra-Trail Australia UTA100 Course Profile
14436 ft total elevation gain.
Tap a point on the course for details.
Scenic World, Katoomba
Start line.
Golden Stairs onto Narrow Neck
The first real climb, out of the Jamison Valley onto the Narrow Neck plateau. No individual gain figure is published, so none is stated.
Six Foot Track out of the Megalong Valley
The long climb back towards Katoomba, at the point in a 100km where climbing hurts most.
Furber Steps
951 stone steps at roughly 99km, from the valley floor to the finish at Scenic World. Nothing else in Australian trail running is quoted as often.
Where Ultra-Trail Australia UTA100 starts and finishes
Ultra-Trail Australia UTA100 starts at Scenic World, Katoomba and finishes at Scenic World, Katoomba. 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-Trail Australia UTA100 Route Breakdown
One hundred and one kilometres around the Jamison and Megalong valleys, and the reason a generation of Australian trail runners learned what a 100km actually costs. From Scenic World at Katoomba the course drops into the Jamison Valley down the Furber Steps, follows the Federal Pass to the Golden Stairs and climbs onto Narrow Neck — a long, exposed plateau above two valleys. It runs south along Narrow Neck to Tarros Ladder, Medlow Gap, Dunphys Camp and Ironpot Ridge, a ridge-top section carrying Aboriginal grinding grooves and pots, then drops onto Megalong Valley Road and turns north onto the Six Foot Track for the long climb out of the Megalong. The last thing between a runner and the finish, at about 99km, is the most famous staircase in trail running: 951 Furber Steps back up to Scenic World.
Ultra-Trail Australia UTA100 Pace Calculator & Splits
Ultra-Trail Australia UTA100 Pace Calculator
Enter a target finish time to see your pace and projected splits.
Average pace / mile
3:49
Average pace / km
2:22
Ultra-Trail Australia UTA100 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 | 2:52 | 1:47 | 8:54 | 17:49 | 37:34 | 53:26 | 3:00:00 |
| 3:15 | 3:06 | 1:56 | 9:39 | 19:18 | 40:42 | 57:53 | 3:15:00 |
| 3:30 | 3:21 | 2:05 | 10:23 | 20:47 | 43:50 | 1:02:20 | 3:30:00 |
| 3:45 | 3:35 | 2:14 | 11:08 | 22:16 | 46:58 | 1:06:47 | 3:45:00 |
| 4:00 | 3:49 | 2:22 | 11:52 | 23:45 | 50:06 | 1:11:14 | 4:00:00 |
| 4:15 | 4:04 | 2:31 | 12:37 | 25:14 | 53:14 | 1:15:42 | 4:15:00 |
| 4:30 | 4:18 | 2:40 | 13:21 | 26:43 | 56:22 | 1:20:09 | 4:30:00 |
| 4:45 | 4:32 | 2:49 | 14:06 | 28:12 | 59:30 | 1:24:36 | 4:45:00 |
| 5:00 | 4:47 | 2:58 | 14:51 | 29:41 | 1:02:37 | 1:29:03 | 5:00:00 |
| 5:30 | 5:15 | 3:16 | 16:20 | 32:39 | 1:08:53 | 1:37:57 | 5:30:00 |
| 6:00 | 5:44 | 3:34 | 17:49 | 35:37 | 1:15:09 | 1:46:52 | 6:00:00 |
| 6:30 | 6:13 | 3:52 | 19:18 | 38:35 | 1:21:25 | 1:55:46 | 6:30:00 |
| 7:00 | 6:41 | 4:09 | 20:47 | 41:33 | 1:27:40 | 2:04:40 | 7:00:00 |
Ultra-Trail Australia UTA100 Finish Time Estimator
Enter a recent 5K, 10K or Half Marathon time to estimate your Ultra-Trail Australia UTA100 finish time.
Your 5K time
Estimated Ultra-Trail Australia UTA100 finish
10:05:13
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-Trail Australia UTA100 Race Day Checklist
Tap items to mark off your race-day readiness.
- Every item on the published mandatory gear list, packed and checked — kit checks are enforced and non-compliance ends your race
- A head torch with spare batteries; a 28-hour cut-off means most of the field runs into the dark
- Warm and waterproof layers — the Blue Mountains in May can turn genuinely cold, and Narrow Neck is exposed
- A nutrition plan rehearsed on long training runs, and enough of it to bridge the gaps between checkpoints
- Poles, if you use them, and the practice to use them on 951 steps
- Your crew briefed on which checkpoints they can actually reach, and when
- Accommodation booked in Katoomba well in advance — the town fills for race weekend
Training Strategy for Ultra-Trail Australia UTA100
20-24 weeks is the realistic window for a first 62.8-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 Scenic World, Katoomba 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.
62.8-Mile Ultra Nutrition & Fueling Plan
A deliberate increase in carbohydrate over the two to three days before the race is the reliable approach at this distance.
Eat a carbohydrate-focused breakfast two to three hours before the start, and stick to something you've already tested in training rather than trying anything new.
At 100km over this much vertical, fuelling is the race. Most runners take on carbohydrate every 30 to 45 minutes throughout and use the checkpoints for real food as well as gels — and the event publishes its own nutrition guide, which is worth reading before you build a plan around what you assume will be there.
Post-race recovery starts with carbohydrate and protein, ideally within the first hour.
Ultra-Trail Australia UTA100 Charity Places 2027
The event runs a fundraising programme rather than a charity-place entry scheme — entrants raise money alongside a normal entry rather than in exchange for one.
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-Trail Australia UTA100 for charity?
Link your JustGiving page to Verus and show up right here alongside other Ultra-Trail Australia UTA100 fundraisers — goal, progress and story, all in one place.
Add Your Fundraiser to VerusWhere to Stay for Ultra-Trail Australia UTA100
Katoomba
Walk to the start, the expo and the finish. Everything about the weekend is simpler, and the town is built for visitors.
Books out months ahead for race weekend, at race-weekend prices.
Leura and Wentworth Falls
Quieter, a few minutes down the highway, and both sit near the course. Good food.
You need a car or a train, and the trains are infrequent at the hours this race keeps.
Blackheath
Cheaper, less crowded, still on the train line.
Twenty minutes from Katoomba, which matters at 4am and again at midnight.
Travel & Logistics
Katoomba is on the Blue Mountains line from Sydney Central, roughly two hours, and the station is a walk from the town centre and Scenic World. It is one of the few 100km races anywhere that is genuinely reachable by public transport.
The event publishes its own transport and parking arrangements for Scenic World and the checkpoints — parking at the start is limited and managed.
Road and track closures across the Blue Mountains national park and Megalong Valley are published on the event’s own road and track closures page.
Spectator & Cheer Guide
Scenic World for the start and finish, and the top of the Furber Steps for the last hundred metres of a very long day. Several checkpoints are accessible to crew; the event publishes which.
Most of the course is inside a national park and unreachable by car. Spectating UTA realistically means the start, the finish, and one or two crew points — which is part of why the finish is as loud as it is.
Live tracking and finish-line streams run through UTMB World Series coverage across race weekend.
Ultra-Trail Australia UTA100 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-Trail Australia UTA100 site , last verified August 2026. Always confirm official timings and policies directly prior to race day.