Event: The Great Adventure Challenge
Event Information
Summary
The Great Adventure Challenge is a corporate team adventure race featuring 45–65 km of trail running, orienteering, mountain biking, kayaking, team challenges and mystery activities in Royal National Park.
Course & Elevation
The Great Adventure Challenge is a corporate adventure race and charity fundraiser held in the Royal National Park, just south of Sydney — one of the world's oldest national parks. Teams of eight take on 45–65km of mixed racing while raising money for the Starlight Children's Foundation; the 2026 edition ran on Saturday 23 May and the event returns annually in late May.
The course blends trail running, mountain biking, kayaking and orienteering, spiced with mystery team challenges and hidden checkpoints that aren't revealed until the day before racing. Because route choice matters, the total distance varies between teams — smart navigation and honest teamwork count for as much as raw fitness. It's a genuine team event: eight people, one course, and no leg you can sit out entirely.
That mix is what a training block needs to respect. A team full of strong runners can still be undone by a long paddle or a technical bike leg, and eight different fitness levels need to arrive at the start line able to move together. An event-specific programme builds the endurance base across all three disciplines, adds paddling and bike-handling work where individuals are weakest, and times the load so the whole team peaks together in late May rather than burning out in March.
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Training Plan Only
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Guided Coaching
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Premium Coaching
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