Professional Pacing

Generously offered for the 10km race - by volunteers from Sydney Striders

A pacer is your built‑in race guide.

This year, experienced Sydney Striders runners will be available to help 10km runners to maintain a smooth, consistent pace to help you achieve a specific finish time with confidence.

Easily spotted by their flags displaying the target finish time, the pace team will position themselves at the start line, making them easy to find before the start of the race.

Sydney Striders pacers provide motivation, encouragement, and steady pacing all the way to the finish line, helping runners of all abilities stay on track and reach their goals with confidence and energy.

Pacers will be available for times starting from 40 minutes - 65 minutes. 

Sydney Striders are a respected NFP running club founded in 1980, delivering accessible and affordable running opportunities for all abilities. Renowned for our experienced and trusted pacing teams, 10K Race Series, and more, we support runners through social runs, training, and events across Sydney and NSW - helping people achieve goals with confidence, energy, and true #GOSTRIDER spirit.

KYDS' Schools Challenges

This year, there will be a new trophy category for schools - Community Participation Champions.
This trophy will go to the school with the highest number of runners registered as a percentage of total student enrolments in their school. This ensures that the smaller schools are also rewarded for their efforts to maximise registrations.

There will continue to be trophies for:
• Registration Champions - for the school with the highest number of runners registered
• Fundraising Champions - for the school that raised the most funds raised for our charity beneficiaries

Food and Coffee

We have some new food outlets this year!
In addition to a BBQ, coffee vans, donuts, we also have potato twist and acai vans.