Start Location

The location for this event is on the Napier to Taihape Road. You are looking for a driveway at 1262 Taihape Rd Sherenden 4179.  This is approximately 30min from central Napier.

Drive in on the shingle road which has a 30km per hour limit on it!

For this event we will have a shuttle bus running for those of you with 2wd vehicles. This is due to the parking at the HQ being unsuitable for 2wd vehicles (you may get in, but you won’t get out)!

There is good parking for 2wd vehicles on the road side paddock on the way in, this will be sign posted.

The shuttle bus will then take you to the HQ, less than 3 minutes away.

For those of you in 4wd’s continue in on the shingle road until you see the event HQ. Parking is on the left hand  side of the airstrip. We have plenty of parking available just follow the direction of the parking marshals. Park sensibly, being mindful of others.

Registration will be open from 7:30 am. Collect your timing number from the registration area as indicated.

Please Note!!

The forest is on private land.  We have to abide by their rules of use and there is strictly NO DOGS ALLOWED!  Access is by permit only. We will have a permit for the event.  You cannot run in this forest at any other time!

Briefing and Start Times

Half Marathon: Briefing 9:15am, start time is 9:30 am.

Medium Course: Briefing 9:45am, start time is 10:00am.

Short Course: Briefing 10:15am, start time is 10:30am.

The half marathon course will have a cut off time at the Medium/Long course split point. If you are unable to make this point by 12:30pm you will be turned onto the medium course to head back to the finish area. If you can’t make this point in 3 hours you won’t be able to make the finish by cut off at 1:30pm.

Latest finish time for individual runners is 1:30 pm. Finishers after that time will be shown as DNF in the results.

Course Information.

All distances are approximate and within +/- 5% of the stated figure, give or take a bit.  These are trail runs and the wrong place to look for precision.  The courses are exacting, but not exact.

Courses –

Half Marathon – 21.1km

From the start at the airstrip we turn right onto the shingle road briefly before turn left and hitting your first bit of forestry trail.

All of these forest trails are quite wide allowing for easy passing.

As none of these trails have names its a hard to give you a full description of the course so you will just have to follow our marking back to the finish on the airstrip again.

 Medium Course

From the start at the airstrip we turn right onto the shingle road briefly before turn left and hitting your first bit of forestry trail.

All of these forest trails are quite wide allowing for easy passing.

As none of these trails have names its a hard to give you a full description of the course so you will just have to follow our marking back to the finish on the airstrip again.

 Short Course

From the start at the airstrip we turn right onto the shingle road briefly before turn left and hitting your first bit of forestry trail.

All of these forest trails are quite wide allowing for easy passing.

As none of these trails have names its a hard to give you a full description of the course so you will just have to follow our marking back to the finish on the airstrip again.

Finally…

Please do make sure you have read the general event information before you enter.

Enter Here

Late entry fees will apply from Monday 9th July!

Click on Peter, our friendly Pukeko to enter