Guides

Guides and race pages

The method behind the numbers, and a page for each big Australian race with a live countdown and a reality check on your goal.

Guides

Guide What your parkrun time says about your fitness Age grading, where you really sit among runners, what the time is worth at 10K and beyond, and the three paces to train at.

Australian races

Race Gold Coast Marathon 2027 Australia's PB course. The date, the course, a live countdown, and a reality check on your goal time against the weeks you have left. Race Gold Coast Half Marathon 2027 The Saturday half on Australia's PB weekend. The date, a live countdown, the flat Broadwater course, and a reality check on your goal time. Race Sydney Marathon 2027 A World Marathon Major with a bridge, a harbour and real hills. The expected date, a live countdown, and a reality check on your goal time. Race Canberra Marathon 2027 The capital's marathon, run around Lake Burley Griffin in autumn. The date, a live countdown, and a reality check on your goal time. Race City2Surf 2027 Sydney's 14 km from Hyde Park to Bondi on Sunday 8 August 2027. The date, a live countdown, Heartbreak Hill, and a reality check on your goal time. Race Melbourne Marathon 2027 Australia's biggest marathon, October 2027 with the date to be confirmed. The bayside course, the MCG finish, a live countdown and a reality check on your goal time. Race Run Melbourne Half Marathon 2027 Melbourne's winter half through the CBD, Docklands and the Yarra. The date, a live countdown, the flat city course, and a reality check on your goal time.

Goal paces

Pace guides Goal-time pace guides The pace, the splits, the equivalent times and the training paces for a 25-minute 5K, a sub-2 half, a sub-4 marathon and more.

How these are written

Every guide here explains a method and gives you the number for it, from the same models the Outrunr app runs. Where a figure depends on you — your race time, your age, your shoes — the guide hands you to the calculator that works it out rather than quoting an average that fits nobody.

Race pages are refreshed each year with the next edition's date. The countdown and the goal check on each one run live in your browser.

Reading about it is the easy part.

Outrunr turns one recent race into a week-by-week plan, coaches you through each session by voice, and tells you honestly whether the goal is still on.

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