THE RACES

Day 1: Mt Zero to Halls Gap (49.5km, 2000m+, 2040m-)

Day 2: Halls Gap to Mt William Carpark (37.5km, 2350m+, 1625m-)

Day 3: Mt William Carpark to Griffin Fireline (42km, 1795m+, 2540m-)

Day 4: Griffin Fireline to Dunkeld (33km, 1555m+, 1585m-)

Total: 162 km
(Please see Stage Race section for specific times and details)

Prize Money: $1000 for the Female and Male winner of the GPT100 Stage Race

Experience this incredible landscape to its fullest by tackling the 100 miles over four days, making the most of daylight, and allowing you to replenish in Halls Gap each night.

Runners will have to test their recovery routines each night, and mental resolve each morning to stand on the start line to continue what they’ve started. There will be results for each stage as well as overall time results for the finish in Dunkeld.

Runners may skip a stage and continue the following stage if they need to recover or are not in good enough health to complete every stage back to back.

If a runners misses a cut-off on one stage, they will need to be checked by the medical team to determine if they can continue the following stages.

It is highly encouraged that runners book accomodation in Halls Gap from Wednesday to Monday as this will be where the event village is and all the shuttles will leave from and return to the Event Village at Centenary Hall.

Teams of three people can take on the stage race, covering the full 100 mile end to end journey in a new dynamic race format. Each runner will run one of the three legs on each of the four days.

Each day of the stage race has two aid stations, which will be the relay changeover points for the runners. In this format teams can essentially run a third of the journey in bite-size pieces over four days.

It allows access to any runner to experience the trail while having adequate time to recover and enjoy the festival atmosphere with their team.

It also gives potential to a team of three runners to race hard over four days and cover the beauty of the Grampians at high octane.

If one runner cannot continue the following stages, we are flexible in allowing the other two runners to continue by either doing shorter stages or one person doing more legs each day.

Teams in the Stage Race Team Relay will be responsible for transporting their next runner to the changeover points at each intermediate aid station. This means teams will need access to a car to drive to the two aid stations on each day to drop off the next runner and pick up the runner that has just finished. The first runner each day can get the shuttle to the start and the last runner can get the shuttle back to Halls Gap after each stage.

It is highly encouraged that teams book accomodation in Halls Gap from Wednesday to Monday as this will be where the event village is and all the shuttles will leave from and return to the Event Village at Centenary Hall.

Start / finish: Mt Zero to Halls Gap

Day: Thursday 21 November

Distance: 49.5 km

Start time: 7 am

Prize Money: $500 for the Female and Male winner of the GPT50k

Cut off: 8:00 pm

Time Limit: 13 hours

This race will run concurrently with the first stage of the stage race. It takes in the northern and most runnable section of the trail. Runners will be able to challenge themselves against others in the 50k, and those taking on the stage race and the teams stage race.

With 2000 m of ascent over the course the race climbs along technical trails to high rocky outcrops with views over the entire Grampians Park to the South.

The route passes many Huts, cascades and waterfalls, and skirts high along the tops of the famous sandstone cliffs, before a long, fast descent to the finish in Halls Gap where refuge awaits, and the party continues.