Run Festival
2025 Mother’s Day Katherine Run Festival
11 May 2025 – Top of Katherine Hot Springs, Riverbank Drive, Katherine
Kids and adults of all ages – walk, skip, jog, run or race over 1km, 7km, 14km, or 21kms to all the significant sights of K-Town!
Leg Details
1km family-friendly adventure run
Start at the top of the Hot Springs and head to Riverview Caravan Park before descending down to the Hot Springs before an uphill finish back where you began.
For the Bigger Kids…
7km (1 lap), 14km (2 laps), 21km (3 laps)
Start / Finish will be at the Top of Katherine Hot Springs (where Parkrun starts from). It is an out and back course entirely on footpaths. Runners will head towards town until they reach the fork where you could go up to the bridge. Runners will take a left at this fork (just like Park run) and continue along the path until you reach the turnaround at 3.5km. Runners will then retrace their steps back to where they began.
- You will complete this course 1x, 2x or 3x depending on the distance you have entered.
- There will be water available at the 3.5km turnaround and back at the start / finish area.
- Please ensure that you have trained sufficiently to complete the distance you have entered. It gets hot here in the Territory so we request that all competitors keep up their fluids to stay as hydrated as possible.
Pre Event Race Information
Katherine running festival is an AusTriathlon sanctioned event and your race day licence is included in your entry fee.
Online registration will remain open until 6 a.m. After that, come and see the registration desk for a manual registration. There is a maximum of 140 participants, though, so get in early.
The registration, start/finish area is located at the Top of Katherine Hot Springs, Riverbank Drive, Katherine.
Pick up your bib at registration from 6:30 am.
The MANDATORY pre-race brief for all distances will be in the race start area 8 minutes before the beginning of each race.
Race start times:
21km = 7:00am
14km = 7:10am
7km = 7:20am
1km = 7:30am
All finishers receive a medal.
We recommend you bring along a picnic rug and make Mother’s Day morning of it. Pop Rocket Cafe will be open to provide you and your family with the best coffee and food available on a Sunday after a race. If you are sitting on the grass picnic style you will need to order takeaway food and drinks as Pop Rocket Cafe can only provide table service to those seated at cafe tables.
This is a RUBBISH-FREE event. Please place all rubbish in the bins provided.
All participants must be courteous to other participants and members of the public at all times. The paths remain open to the public. Please provide clear, courteous communication at all times.
If you come across a participant in need of help, stop to assist and let the next participant know to report the situation back to marshals or officials at race headquarters.
Presentations for each event will be at the race start/finish hub throughout the morning!
We ask that competitors return their race bibs to the random draw box. We will be dipping into there throughout the morning to select numbers and give away random draw prizes.
Register Now – click on the link below
Please register when you can to assist us in getting an estimate of numbers.
However– online registration is open right up until 6 am, then manual rego and payment at the rego desk.