Red Bull Dune Dusters

Australia's most gruelling soft sand challenge is back, with Newcastle's iconic Stockton beach sand dunes set for a serious work out on Sunday November 29, 2015 for the second annual Red Bull Dune Dusters race.

Fitness fanatics will once again challenge themselves as they slog it out on the picturesque but brutal Stockton dunes – a location so hard to traverse it is usually accessed via 4WD or quad bike.

Hundreds of toned bodies will hit the dunes for the high-intensity soft sand running race, kicking off at 10.30am on the last Sunday of this month. 

Just two hours North of Sydney, The Red Bull Dune Dusters race is set over 10kms of gruelling sand dunes with a backdrop of wide open skies, remote bush and a stunning ocean vista. The final killer a leg burning hill up to the finishing line.

Taking the inaugural trophy in 2014, was first ever event winner Stu Adams.  Adams smashed the course in just over 32.48 minutes, coming in without a shirt or shoes and metres ahead of his nearest competitor.

Of his win the 47 year old Newcastle local said, 'I was determined to be the first winner.  I've run the dunes since I was a young kid, and I'm always on the sand.  The race was an amazing challenge last year, and I'll be looking to better my first record time when I defend my title this year."

Showing the grit the race has become renowned for, landscaper Stu competed just weeks after breaking his ribs, and only days after cutting the tendons in his hand.

Of his participation this year the larrikin landscaper has joked, 'I went to a Screaming Jets concert the night before the event last year, and had the injuries so I'm trying to find another concert I can go to and might have to get an injury as well as I it seemed to bring me good luck last year."