Event: Whale Rock Trail Run
Event Information
Summary
The Whale Rock Trail Run takes place on bush trails around Pennant Hills and features a 6.5 km fun run, a new 12 km option and the 17 km challenge run with creek crossings, steps and mixed singletrack and fire trails.
Course & Elevation
The Whale Rock Trail Run is a community trail event at Pennant Hills in Sydney's north, returning on Sunday 28 February 2027. Based at Ern Holmes Oval in Pennant Hills Park, it offers a 6.5km fun run, a new 12km option, the 17km challenge run and kids athletics events — a genuine family-day format with an event village at its heart.
The courses head into the bushland trails around Lane Cove National Park, mixing fire trails with singletrack, creek crossings, boulder scrambles and the leg-testing Kurrajong Steps. For a run this close to suburbia, the terrain is surprisingly honest — enough climbing and technical footing to make the 17km feel like a real trail race rather than a park run.
For runners stepping up from road running or building toward bigger trail goals, it's an ideal early-season hit-out — short enough to race, technical enough to expose gaps in trail conditioning. A structured, event-specific training block develops the leg strength for steps and short climbs, the agility for rocky singletrack, and the confidence to push the pace on mixed terrain.
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