Is crew access allowed on the Surf Coast Century 100km course?

Yes, crew access is allowed on the Surf Coast Century 100km course. Support crews and team mates can help only at checkpoints, within the designated area. Anyone seen receiving outside support gets a 30 minute penalty. Access at most checkpoints is limited to one car per runner.

Are drop bags allowed on the Surf Coast Century 100km course?

Yes, drop bags are allowed on the Surf Coast Century 100km course. Optional drop bag service to CP2 (24km), CP4 (49km) and CP6 (76km). Bags closed, max 5kg, no bigger than 50cm x 50cm.

Are pacers allowed on the Surf Coast Century 100km course?

No, pacers are not allowed on the Surf Coast Century 100km course.

Ultras · Australia · VIC

Surf Coast Century

Surf Coast Century 100km · 100K

On the calendar

The date is set. Entry has not opened.

Race dateSeptember 18, 2027

Duration1 day

Start5:00am

Whenin 326 days

Who's going to Surf Coast Century?

I'm running itPlan your weeks and your aid station times I'm crewingWhen to leave, where to park, at every stop I'm pacing or cheeringAsk your runner for their Out Here link

Free. You can start with nothing.

Official website Aid stations Notify me if this race changes

Free, and always will be. NavRun makes money from race-day planning for runners who want it, never from this. Ultras change constantly, sometimes the morning of. Always confirm with the race director and the official website before you rely on anything here.

Distance The race

100K

Climb Our math

6,568 ft We worked this out from what the race prints.

Descent Our math

6,567 ft We worked this out from what the race prints.

High point

not checked yet

Time limit

not checked yet

Aid stations

Started

not checked yet

Finished

not checked yet

Finish rate

not checked yet

The course

Where it goes loop · 13 aid stations

Course line from the race's own GPX. Source file. Year of this file not known.

100km from Anglesea Main Beach to Torquay and back, then inland and down the coast to Aireys Inlet and home to Anglesea Green. Four legs with a checkpoint at the end of each. Run solo, or as a relay team of 2, 3 or 4.

Leg 3 (49km to 76km) is the hilliest leg and the crux of the course. Leg 1 includes technical reef and rock platforms and pools up to knee deep. Runners may be sent on a 3km high tide detour near 20.5km depending on swell.

The race

What this one is

Trail ultra on the Surf Coast of Victoria, starting on Anglesea Main Beach and finishing at Anglesea Green on the Great Ocean Road. A 100km (solo, or relay teams of 2, 3 or 4) and a 50km solo run off the same start line, over beaches, clifftop tracks and Otway coast bushland.

Getting in

Getting in Entry, lottery and what the race asks of you before race day.

Lottery: not checked yet

Lottery opens: not checked yet

Lottery draw: not checked yet

Field cap: not checked yet

Registration: Other surfcoastcentury.rapidascent.com.au

Qualifying: not checked yet

Minimum age: not checked yet

Transfers: No surfcoastcentury.rapidascent.com.au

Deferrals: not checked yet

Crew access, pacers and drop bags

The rules that shape your day Anything marked "not checked yet" is a gap in what we hold, never a no from the race.

Crew allowed: Yes surfcoastcentury.rapidascent.com.au

Vehicles per runner: 1 surfcoastcentury.rapidascent.com.au

Pacers: No surfcoastcentury.rapidascent.com.au

Muling: not checked yet

Drop bags: Yes surfcoastcentury.rapidascent.com.au

Cupless: not checked yet

Course marking: Fully Marked surfcoastcentury.rapidascent.com.au

Night running: Yes surfcoastcentury.rapidascent.com.au

Dogs: not checked yet

Headphones: not checked yet

Crew rules: Support crews and team mates can help only at checkpoints, within the designated area. Anyone seen receiving outside support gets a 30 minute penalty. Access at most checkpoints is limited to one car per runner. surfcoastcentury.rapidascent.com.au

Pacer rules: Support crews and team mates are not permitted to run with or pace runners. surfcoastcentury.rapidascent.com.au

Drop bag rules: Optional drop bag service to CP2 (24km), CP4 (49km) and CP6 (76km). Bags closed, max 5kg, no bigger than 50cm x 50cm. rapidascentmedia.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com

Cutoff philosophy: Individuals who miss a cut off must miss the next leg but they may re-continue from the following checkpoint. For relay teams who miss a cut off, the next team member continues at the published cut off time but is unranked. surfcoastcentury.rapidascent.com.au

Aid stations

Every stop, and what you get there ● yes ○ no ? nobody has checked – does not apply to this race

Mile	Station	Cutoff	Crew access	Bag	Pacer	Med	To next
?	Start: Anglesea Main Beach NoneSignal wrong?	?	?	?	?	?	?
?	CP1 Point Addis car park NoneSignal wrong?	?	●	?	?	?	?
?	CP2 Torquay Surf Beach NoneSignal wrong?	?	●	●	?	?	?
?	CP3 Ironbark Basin picnic area NoneSignal wrong?	?	●	?	?	?	?
?	CP3a Eumeralla water point NoneSignal wrong?	?	○	?	?	?	?
?	CP4 Anglesea Green NoneSignal wrong?	?	●	●	?	?	?
?	CP4a Loves Track water point NoneSignal wrong?	?	○	?	?	?	?
?	CP5 Distillery Creek Picnic Ground NoneSignal wrong?	?	●	?	?	?	?
?	CP6 Moggs Creek Picnic Ground NoneSignal wrong?	?	●	●	?	?	?
?	CP7 Aireys Inlet Skate Park NoneSignal wrong?	?	●	?	?	?	?
?	Urquharts Bluff Beach car park NoneSignal wrong?	?	?	?	?	?	?
?	Corner Melba Pde and 12th Ave NoneSignal wrong?	?	?	?	?	?	?
?	Finish: Anglesea Green NoneSignal wrong?	?	?	?	?	?	?

Same race, other lines

Other distances and other years

Other distances: Surf Coast Century 50km (50K)

What it looks like out there

Somebody has been out there with a camera the tables say the climb is long. these say what long feels like.

Nobody has been out there with a camera or a microphone yet. A gap means nobody has found it, not that it is not out there. Seen a course preview or a film of this one? Send us the link.

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What does the page say now? Copy it as it appears, so we can find it.

What should it say? The corrected value.

How do you know? Required. Where it came from: the race email, the runner manual, what you saw on the day.

A link that shows it: Optional.

Or a photo of it: Optional. A screenshot or a photo of the sign works.

Were you there? Optional, and it decides nothing.

What year? Optional.

Your email: Optional, only so we can come back to you about this correction.

Which distance? Leave blank if it is about the whole race.

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What does it show that the page cannot? Required. A line is plenty. Where the climbs are, what the footing does, what the last twenty miles look like.

Were you there? Optional, and it decides nothing.

What year? Optional.

Your email: Optional, and never shown on the page. Only so we can ask you a question about this one.

Where is it? A YouTube link, a race report, a photo gallery, whatever it is.

What kind of thing is it?

Who made it? Optional, and we credit them on the page.

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Have the GPX? Send us the link.

We want the address of the file the race publishes, not the file. We download it from there so the page can say where the line came from.

Are you the race director? Get in touch and we'll make it right.

We read every one of these and we write back. Every fact here carries the source it came from, and the way a wrong one gets fixed is a person checking it against what you tell us.

Where this came from. Every fact on this page records its source and when we last checked it: 112 sources for this race. Hover a source link to read the sentence it came from.

37% of what we track for a course is filled in. The rest says "not checked yet" rather than guessing.

See something wrong or out of date? Suggest an edit
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Were you out there? Say which stops a text got out from
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Anything else: [email protected]

Ultras change. We will tell you when this one does.

Cutoffs move, races get postponed, lotteries open and close. We read the race's own sources and record where every fact came from. Put your email in and we will send you what changed, and where we read it.

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What happens to your email. Nothing else. I do not sell it, and I will not send you anything except this race changing. One click gets you out.

I keep this catalog because the information is scattered and hard to trust. Telling you when it moves is the same job.