The race starts at the Ulverstone Cricket Club in River Road, West Ulverstone.
The course heads east along River Road joining the pathway opposite Amherst Street, prior to the trainline at Tobruk Park, continuing along river to the Ulverstone Bridge, under and across the bridge, down past the wharf precinct to Otto’s Grotto and onto the Fairway Park walking track to Buttons Creek and along Beach Road to the start of the Ulverstone/Turners Beach coastal pathway. Runners follow the pathway to Turners Beach and then along The Esplanade to its ending at Gables Park. This is the transition point and is where the second and fourth leg runners will commence their runs. Runners follow the exact same course back to the Ulverstone Cricket Club. This is where the third leg runners will commence their run.
Congratulations to Robina Juanir who won from Matthew Hubbard, Darryn Ling, Jordan Matthews and David Shore.
Fastest Female was Rhian Miles (2:02:31) and Fastest Male was Jackson Shaw (1:53:12).
Iron Trail 2 x 11.5km Teams Race:
Congratulations to Woodletons (Liam Woods, Sarah Middleton), who won from Tuesday (Chris Purton, Micheal Bates), Poole Buoys (Mark Saint-John, Isaac Poole), Well Cooked (James Lucas, Stewart Mearns) and Slip and Slide (David Murton, Steven Tammens).
Enjoy a week off as we look forward to Race 16 Teams Marathon event on August 24th. Please note that entries for this event close Midnight August 17th.
The race starts at 9:00 am at the Wild Mersey car park, Shale Rd Latrobe. There are public toilet facilities at the car park.
The race is an out and back course covering approximately 11.5 km each way. The course covers shared access mountain bike and walking trails, with a short section of quiet road at the start finish.
The race will start on the road section southeast of the carpark, following this for approximately 1 km before crossing the Mersey River over the bridge. After crossing the bridge, runners turn right onto the Railton Express, looping clockwise under the bridge, before heading southeast along the track. From this point runners will follow the Railton Express trail markers. At approximately 4 km into the outward journey, runners will come to Great Bend Road where a race marshal will cross runners (when safe). The Railton Express continues for another 6km to the crossing point at a gravel road (Pump House Rd); runners cross here. Please note unlike 2024, the course crosses the road and rejoins the trail; runners do not run up the gravel road. After crossing the gravel road, the track continues for another 1.5 km to the turnaround/transition area. The turnaround/transition area will be next to a small forestry access road off Native Rock Rd, approximately 500m after the junction of Native Rock Rd and Pump House Rd (visible from the track). This point will be a marshaled drink station where runners can reload their water supplies before the return journey along the same track. This is also the transition area for runners competing in the team event.
After passing through the turnaround/transition runners will complete the return journey along the same path as the outward journey. The finish line will be the same location as the start chute.
The race has a hard cutoff time of 2 pm.
For those wishing to gpx files of the course routes can be downloaded here and preloaded onto your running watch. To download click the downward arrow (highlighted below) and select “Download GPX”.
This is a self-supported trail race. As such runners are requested to carry during the run:
water holding capacity (bottles and/or bladder) of at least 1 L.
A compression bandage
Survival blanket
Thermal top
Pea-less whistle
Mobile phone with the Emergence Plus app preloaded
St John First Aid app preloaded on mobile phone (recommended)
Ultimately runners are responsible for their own safety. Please consider the course and weather conditions, and prepare yourself accordingly by wearing appropriate footwear and clothing.
Water to refill bottles will be at the marshaled turn around point. Please note you will be required to fill your own bottles; this is not the marshal’s responsibility.
A tail runner will be following the last runner on the return leg.
Runners are reminded that they are running on a public shared use trail and must be considerate of other trail users at all times. Runners are expected to give way to all mountain bike users of the trail.
Car parking at the turnaround transition area is extremely limited. Runners for the second leg are requested to carpool to this point to minimize traffic in this area.
This weeks race see’s a course change from previous years with a move to predominately off-road single track mountain bike trails within the Penguin Mountain Bike Park.
Runners meet at the Penguin Athletics Track, starting on the grassed parking area above the track. Runners will head West, crossing Sports Complex Avenue adjacent to the Dog Exercise area. Runners turn left on to the mountain bike trails just prior to the intersection with Ironcliffe Rd.
The course then follows the track for approximately 300m, making a short dog leg to cross over the lower Mountain Bike carpark driveway. After another short uphill trail, runners will continue onto the upper Mountain Bike Park driveway until the single trail continues to the South. Continue along the mountain Bike tracks following the markings until the first of two wooden off camber platforms. At the end of the first platform runners take a left turn at the tyre stack onto the second off camber platform, runners may choose to run to the left of this platform as it can be slippery especially in the wet. Runners continue to follow the single trail downhill to behind the North West Environment Centre. Passing the dam, runners begin the ascent back up to the main carpark and along the single trail until they come out behind the junior skills area. Runners take an anti-clockwise loop of the old bitumen speedway until they make it to the upper Mountain Bike Park driveway where they return to the Penguin Athletics Track via the same route as initially taken.
The nominated time event will take place at the Stanley Recreation Ground at 10am.
The main race starts at 10.30am from the Stanley Recreation Ground, Marine Esplanade. There are changerooms and toilet facilities at the ground. The race is over 8km and contains one hilly section. As the race is on public roads runners are asked run with caution and obey any directions from race officials. The race heads out of the ground away from the Stanley township on Main Road. After a kilometre or so runners continue onto Dovecote Road which has an uphill section. Runners turn right at Green Hills Road which takes them past Highfield House and a sweeping downhill section with great views of the Nut. This leads onto Church Street through the main centre of Stanley. Runners turn right onto Wharf Rd then left onto Marine Esplanade. From there they re-enter the Recreation Ground and finish with half a lap of the oval. Post-race presentations will take place in the Stanley Football Clubrooms.
Congratulations to Todd Wheldon, who won from Rhian Miles, Stephen Dutton, Tyson Walters and Drew Redpath.
Fastest Female was Rhian Miles (1:25:15) and Fastest Male was Drew Redpath (1:24:41).
Teams Half Marathon:
Congratulations to Team Mozzie (Roselyn Hendriks, Martin Bassett), who won from Rabbit and the Hare (Jessica McQueen, Darryn Ling), Bitumen 2 Bush (Brendan Burr, Emma Burr), The Newlytreds (Nathan Dick, Lauren Workman) and Shore Thing (David Shore, Oliver Shore).
Both the Teams Half-Mara and Individual Half-Mara events will start at 9.30am. These two events are conducted concurrently over the same course. A nominated time event will be held at 9am at the Football Ground.
Competitors running in the teams’ marathon will each be provided with a unique colour-coded bib and these can be collected prior to the race start. Runners in the individual marathon must wear their Club numbers.
The meeting place for this race is Turners Beach Football Ground (Henry St). Please park cars at the Football Ground.
The race commences on the Esplanade opposite the Turners Beach Playground and Hall, on the Pathway. The drink station will be here for individual runners as will the change for team runners.
The course is out-and-back in both directions with the run East done first. The course is mostly flat – there is one short hill in the first half at Leith. The first turn in Lillico is just prior to Lillico Road (at the end of the straight section of path). The second turn in Ulverstone is just past the toilets on Beach Road near the overflow caravan park (~50m before Buttons Ave). Runners need to supply their own drinks in clearly marked bottles with their Bib number. These can be placed at the start/finish line.
Post-race presentations will take place in the Turners Beach Club clubrooms. There will be soup and hot drinks available for runners, volunteers and supporters. There are toilet and shower facilities available.
NB: at the end of the Esplanade run down the grassy lane and not around through the bush as was done in the 3x2x3.km Teams race. Follow the arrows. We are not using the Coastal Pathway along Susan St.
Run on the sea side (North side) of the Esplanade in Turners Beach when going both directions.
The individuals drink station will be at the start/finish line. The changeover for team runners is also here.
When starting the second-leg (or just after hallway for individuals) and running West on the Esplanade in Turners Beach you must take the new coastal pathway. When approaching the turn-around sign on Beach Road, Ulverstone, you may run on the sea side of the road, rather than the windy concrete path (take care).
