Start
9:00am, Bunbury Runners Club, 1 Ocean Drive
10 km · Big Swamp, the lighthouse and the zig-zag
The Ocean
South down Ocean Drive for a lap of Big Swamp, back up the Drive, then over the lighthouse hill and down the zig-zag to the Mosaic and home. The whole experience, in ten kilometres.
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Cut-off
12:30pm — the course closes
Field cap
300 Opens 1 Oct
Minimum age
12 years on race day
Entry
$65 incl. GST · junior $40
Elevation
One climb — Marlston Hill, 40 m. The rest is flat
Prams & dogs
Neither, in any race — certified course, people chasing times
Drink station
At 5 km — water and electrolyte
Prize money
1st $500 — first man and first woman across the line.
Ten kilometres, and you still climb the checkered bastard like everybody else. It’s still a fast morning.
You head south down Ocean Drive, drop into Big Swamp Wildlife Reserve for a full lap of it — a bird sanctuary a kilometre from the middle of town, and the quietest place you will run all weekend — then come back out onto Ocean Drive. From there it follows The Three: up over Marlston Hill to the lighthouse, down the zig-zag, out to the Mosaic, and back to the finish. No traffic, closed road on the way home.
It is also the most common first step into the event, and the reason people move up. You get the hill, the zig-zag and the turn at the Mosaic — the same three things the half gives you — in a distance you can do on ordinary training. Plenty of the marathon field started here.
