The Route

The total route from King George Square, Brisbane, to the steps of The Sydney Opera House is approximately ~1000Km.

Starting at 7:30am, on the 3rd of July, I plan to run between 30-40Km each morning before breaking for some lunch and a rest (and also to avoid the mid-day sun). In the afternoon I plan to run a further 30-40Km hopefully reaching my destination for each day by 5pm and avoiding having to run after sunset.

Day 1 (3JUL) – 7:30AM (~35Km) – King George Square -> Logan River Parklands (Route Guide)
Day 1 – 2:00PM (~30Km) – Logan River Parklands -> Warner Brothers Movieworld (Route Guide)
Day 2 (4JUL) – 6:30AM (~37Km) – Warner Brothers Movieworld -> Honey World, Currumbin (Route Guide)
Day 2 – 1:00PM (37Km) – Honey World, Currumbin -> Lions Park, Kingscliff (Route Guide)
Day 3 (5JUL) – 6:30AM (~33Km) – Lions Park, Kingscliff -> Yelgun Freeway Interchange (Route Guide)
Day 3 – 2PM (~16Km) Yelgun Freeway Interchange -> Tyagarah Apiaries (Route Guide)

NB: My daily schedule will be posted 3 days in advance in case anyone would like to join me as I run, however I also need to be fully flexible and taking the weather, terrain/elevation and any possible injury (touch wood) into account, so the schedule may change from day to day. If you’d like to join me, or just follow along online with my plans, please keep checking back!

NB 2: My pacing strategy will be to maintain a comfortable click, roughly covering 9-10Km/h.

The following is a very rough guide – mostly for planning purposes – to give an overview of planned running days. Its likely that distances and rest days will change – however I feel its equally important to have a skeleton plan to use as a reference.

Day 4 (6JUL) – 6:30AM (~60Km) – Tyagarah Apiaries -> Wardell (via Byron Bay & Lennox Heads) (Route Guide)
— REST DAY – 7th JULY —
Day 5 (8JUL) – 6:30AM (~67Km) – Wardell -> Yamba Rd (before MacLean) (Route Guide)
Day 6 (9JUL) – 6:30AM (~60Km) – Yamba Rd -> Wooli (Route Guide)
Day 7 (10JUL) – 6:30AM (~59Km) – Wooli -> Coffs Coast (Route Guide)
Day 8 (11JUL) – 6:30AM (~87Km) – Coffs Coast -> Macksville (via Sawtell) (Route Guide)
— REST DAY – 12th JULY —
Day 9 (13JUL) – 6:30AM (~68Km) – Macksville -> Crescent Head (Route Guide)
Day 10 (14JUL) – 6:30AM (~67Km) – Crescent Head -> Laurieton (via Port Macquarie) (Route Guide)
Day 11 (15JUL) – 6:30AM (~68Km) – Laurieton -> Rainbow Flat (Route Guide)
Day 12 (16JUL) – 6:30AM (~62Km) – Rainbow Flat -> Bulahdelah (Route Guide)
— REST DAY – 17th JULY —
Day 13 (18JUL) – 6:30AM (~70Km) – Bulahdelah -> Raymond Terrace (Route Guide)
Day 14 (19JUL) – 6:30AM (~75Km) – Raymond Terrace -> Norah Head (Route Guide)
Day 15 (20JUL) – 6:30AM (~64Km) – Norah Head -> Mona Vale (via Ferry) (Route Guide)
Day 16 (21JUL) – 6:30AM (~31Km) – Mona Vale -> Sydney Opera House (via Ferry) (Route Guide)