Event: Max Adventure Race – Sydney
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Summary
The Max Adventure Race Series Sydney event is a team adventure race in Royal National Park combining trail running or hiking, mountain biking and kayaking with basic navigation over classic and novice-length courses.
Course & Elevation
The Max Adventure Race Sydney is the Sydney round of the Max Adventure Race Series, held each May in the Royal National Park with the start and finish at Audley, beside the Hacking River. It's raced in teams of two (male, female or mixed) who must stay together for the whole course, and the 2026 edition ran on Sunday 24 May. Entry starts from about $115 per person, with kayaks provided.
Teams choose between two courses. The Classic packs in roughly 15–25km of mountain biking on the area's purpose-built trails, 7–12km of trail running including some steep climbs out of the valley, and 2–4km of kayaking on the Hacking River — most teams take four to six hours. The Novice course trims the distances and the hills for first-timers, typically finishing inside two to four hours. Both involve basic navigation: checkpoints, race maps, and decisions made on the move.
Preparing for it means training three sports and one partnership. An event-specific block builds MTB endurance and handling, run fitness on tired legs, and enough paddling to make the kayak leg a rest rather than a crisis — plus the pacing judgement that keeps a team of two moving at the speed of both. Structured preparation turns a 4–6 hour unknown into a day you actually control.
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