Event: Hounslow Classic
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Summary
The Hounslow Marathon is a brutally steep Blue Mountains sky marathon traversing clifftops, the Grand Canyon, Grose Wilderness and Lockleys Pylon, with huge elevation gain and highly technical singletrack
Course & Elevation
The Hounslow Classic is Blackheath's "brutal and spectacular" sky-running weekend, run by SingleTrack Events in the Grose Valley wilderness of the Blue Mountains. The marathon - 43km with around 2,500m of climbing - starts at Allview Escape at 6:15am on Saturday 12 September 2026, with a 17km event on the Sunday.
The course opens with clifftop running to Evans Lookout and the Grand Canyon loop: carved rock walls, swirling pools, and a leg-sapping climb back out past Neates Glen. Round two heads out to Perrys Lookdown and plunges to the valley floor at the Blue Gum Forest, crossing Govetts Creek before the exposed grind up Lockleys Pylon to the Pinnacles turnaround - then the whole valley in reverse, including the infamous Perrys Lookdown staircase, to reach the finish. Cut-off is 8:00pm, and finishers earn UTMB World Series and ITRA qualifying points.
Twice down to the valley floor and twice back up: this race is won on hill strength, technical descending and disciplined pacing - exactly what a structured, event-specific training block is built to develop.
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