Start Location – 1262 Taihape Road

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.

We will have flags out on this entrance.

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

Due to the amount of rain we have had the parking at the start/finish is now quite limited. Our main car parking area is now going to be on the roadside paddock on the way into the forest.

There will be a marshal here to help with parking. 2wd vehicles closest to the shingle road, 4wd’s you can venture a little further out into the paddock.

For this event we will have two shuttle buses running to shuttle you to the start and back again after the finish. This is due to the parking at the HQ being unsuitable for vehicles, you may get in, but you won’t get out!

The shuttle bus will then take you to the HQ, less than 3 minutes (1.8km) away. Shuttle buses will be available from 7:30am onwards.

We will have some tents available for some shelter for you and also have a tent for you to store a bag in with your extra clothing etc.

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 – 22.5km (2 x laps)

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.

Due to some heavy tree fall and damage this course will now be a two lap course. Don’t worry it will still be just as challenging.

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 – 12km

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 – 7.4km

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.

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Late entry fees will apply from Monday 8th July!

Entries close at midnight on Friday 12th July, sooner if we reach our capacity!

Click on Peter, our friendly Pukeko to enter