SINGAPOREAN Keith Hong, 32, will take on an experienced field of superfit runners in Australia's longest ultra-marathon, a 240km race on Dec 11.

The event - the Coast to Kosciuszko ultra-marathon - starts at Boydtown Beach, near Eden in New South Wales and winds its way to the Strzelecki monument which sits atop Mt Kosciuszko, at 2,228m above sea level, before finishing 9km down at Charlotte Pass, the closest that public vehicles can get to the summit, organisers of the race said in a press statement on Wednesday.

Hong, a relative novice with only three years ultra-marathon experience, would be the first Asian and first Singaporean to complete this race, if he makes the 46-hour cutoff.

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