Event: Coastrek Sydney
Event Information
Summary
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Coastrek Sydney is a team hiking challenge for mental health, where teams trek 20 km (from Long Reef), 30 km (from Mona Vale) or 50 km (from Palm Beach) along Sydney’s Northern Beaches to Manly, raising funds for Beyond Blue.
Course & Elevation
Coastrek Sydney is Australia's original team trekking challenge — first held on these trails in 2009 — where teams of two or more hike 20km, 30km or 50km in a single day to raise funds for Beyond Blue's 24/7 mental health support services. Every participant pledges to raise $500, and the 2026 edition ran on Friday 27 March along a new Northern Beaches route.
The 50km course runs the full length of Sydney's Northern Beaches from Palm Beach to Manly, with the 30km starting at Mona Vale and the 20km at Long Reef. Whichever distance a team chooses, the day mixes beach sand, coastal paths, national park trails and headland lookouts, ending with a surfside stretch along Manly Beach and harbour views from North Head before the finish line. It is a challenge, not a race — checkpoints roughly every 15km keep teams fed, watered and moving.
Team trekking has its own demands: hours on your feet, sand and stairs, and a pace the whole team can hold from dawn onwards. A structured, event-specific training block builds walking endurance progressively, strengthens legs for repeated headland climbs, and gets a team practising long walks together — so everyone crosses the line at Manly strong, not shattered.
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