Hunter Valley Marathon

Course & Elevation

The Winery Run – Hunter Valley is a running festival in the Hunter Valley wine region of New South Wales, held on a Sunday in July, in the Australian winter, at Wandin Estate in Lovedale near Cessnock. It is organised by H Events. The marathon (42.2 km) is four laps of a 10.5 km out-and-back course. The course starts on the Wandin cricket oval, runs south to the bottom exit and joins the estate's internal roadway north to the exit onto Talga Road. Runners then go out and back on the southern side of the road, with the other side open to slow-moving resident traffic, and return to the oval to complete each lap. The marathon starts at 6:30 am and has a six-hour time limit. The half marathon is two laps of the same course, and the festival also has a 10.5 km, a 5 km Winery Wander and a 2 km kids' run. The marathon and half marathon courses are AIMS-accredited. The 2026 event notice expected about 150 marathon runners and 500 in the half marathon. H Events called the 2021 edition the festival's 15th anniversary.