But despite the herculean effort by more than 50 participants, RevFit head coach and organiser Adam Brook wants the event to be even bigger next year.

"We went a total of 2.4 million metres, which sounds a lot better than 2400 kilometres. We didn't quite make it to Perth, but did we did go pretty far," he said.

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Mr Brook founded the overnight challenge to raise awareness of the cancer, and to start conversations about getting moles checked.

In 2019, he made national headlines for taking part in the event during the depth of his battle against stage four melanoma. He said it was harder than chemotherapy.

The event, which ran from Friday to Saturday, was a major "conversation-starter" and an eye-opener to the sheer number of people affected by the cancer in their family in some way, he said.

"There was so many people who had been directly impacted by melanoma, or skin cancers," he said.

"It was great to have everyone in a 24 hour period be talking about it in some way. I do think it works and it was what I set out to achieve."

For the first time the RevFit crew were joined by members of other local gyms, including Snake Athletic and Demon Crossfit.

Mr Brook said he wants next year's event to go statewide, taking advantage of the growing community of former members of RevFit, once called Fit2Function, who have moved away from Tamworth.

"I'll put the call out over social media to gyms countrywide, Australia-wide and get everyone to come in on some capacity and all contribute to one fund, straight to the Melanoma Institute," he said.

"I'd love to think that in five years' time it's global. The first weekend of December is always the melanoma marathon."

So far, the event has raised $4,500 for the cause, but donations are still open.

All money raised goes to Game on Mole, a charity campaign run by the Melanoma Institute.

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