Event: The Bloody Long Walk – Sydney North
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Summary
The Bloody Long Walk Sydney North is a 35 km challenge walk from Palm Beach to Manly raising funds for the Mito Foundation and mitochondrial disease research.
Course & Elevation
The Bloody Long Walk Sydney North is the original event in the series: a 35km one-day challenge walk from Palm Beach to Manly on Sunday 2 August 2026, raising funds for the Mito Foundation and mitochondrial disease research. It is non-competitive, fully supported with checkpoints every 3.5–7km, and takes most walkers seven to eight hours.
The course strings together the full length of Sydney's Northern Beaches — from Governor Phillip Park at Palm Beach, over a run of clifftop headlands and down through beach after beach, finishing on the Manly Promenade. With around 433m of total climb delivered as repeated short, punchy hills rather than one big ascent, it is deceptively demanding: every headland earns you another ocean view, and another descent.
That sawtooth profile is exactly what training should target. An event-specific block builds long-walk endurance week by week while conditioning quads and calves for repeated up-and-down efforts, and gives you time to lock in footwear, fuelling and pacing strategies — so you arrive at Palm Beach in August ready to enjoy the coastline instead of surviving it.
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