Victoria Running Events

Major Victoria races

These are the events runners look up first when they are planning a season outside a single suburb. Check each listing for the distances on offer before you enter.

• Lakes Entrance Running Festival (31 October 2026): a Gippsland race weekend on the coast.
• 2XU Wellness Run (22 November 2026): a Melbourne race with a broad field, useful if you want a city event on the state calendar.
• Speak & Share Fun Run (6 December 2026): a shorter community run to close out the year.
• Carmans Fun Run (20 February 2027): an early-year fun run while marathon training is still building.
• Vineyards Twilight Running Festival (27 February 2027): a north-east Victoria festival at Milawa.
• Great Ocean Road Running Festival (15 May 2027): the state’s best-known coastal destination race.

Entries for the bigger festivals open months ahead. Open the event page on RunDais for the current entry link, course notes and any Passport offer. Leave a gap between a long race and the next one if you are stepping up in distance.

Victoria races by distance

Use the distance lists below when you already know the race you want. Fun runs such as Speak & Share and Carmans suit a first event or a tune-up. Festival entries, including Lakes Entrance and the Great Ocean Road Running Festival, are the ones to open if you want a half or a full marathon on the same weekend as shorter distances. Trail runners should check the trail list as well as the road list, because several Victorian events sit in parkland or along the coast rather than on a closed city loop.

Trending events on this page are the ones people have been opening on RunDais over the last 30 days. For the Melbourne-only programme, use the Melbourne running events page.

How to use this calendar

Start with the upcoming events at the top of the page, then use the distance sections to narrow by 5km, 10km, half marathon, marathon, trail or road. Every name links to the full event page, with the date, place and entry details.

A free RunDais account saves events to your Passport, which is also where selected races share discount codes. The full Australian events directory covers races outside Victoria.

Training with a group is on the Victoria run clubs page. City groups are also listed on the Melbourne run clubs page.