Start Location

Event number 3 in the series. Event HQ is at the cattle yards close to 292 Matangi Road.  Turn right on to Matangi Road immediately before the bridge over the Tukituki river when coming from Havelock North. Look for the HB Trail Run and Hammer flags.  Head down the road until you see us.

You can park on the grass verge leaving the road clear please.  If you are late arriving you may have a bit of a walk so plan to be early.  We will start on time.

Please Note!

This is a working farm and we have to abide by the rules which means that you leave your dogs/cats/parrots etc at home as we don’t want the sheep & cattle scared! NO DOGS ALLOWED! The course traverses private land until you reach the trails around Te Mata Peak. Access the trails on Te Mata Peak at any time from the normal access points, but please, do not use the tracks on this private land at any other time.

Compulsory Briefing and Start Times

Registration will be open from 7:30 am. Collect your timing number from the registration area. This is where you return your timing chip to after your race also.

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 marshals point on the Te Mata Park Loop area. If you are unable to make this point by 12:00pm you will be not be permitted to continue on the course. If you can’t make this point in 2.5 hours you won’t be able to make the finish by the cut off time 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. That being said, the ½ marathons will be pretty close to being a half marathon.

Now this is a tricky one… As you are running across farm land, farmers don’t tend to have readily available name tags for their paddocks so it’s way too complicated to give you detailed instructions (for example run through the paddock go over the gate and um then run through the paddock and so on…) for this one so you’ll have to rely on the markers being in place. It’s not been a problem in the past, so all should be good. There will be arrows to turn you and pickets with tape on them so you can see where to go.

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Half Marathon Course

This one starts off by traversing across three paddocks up to the top of your first climb.

 

 

From there you have rolling paddocks to cross and one main long farm track (which is your main out and back track) with some fantastic views over Hawke’s Bay until you come to the bottom of the Redwoods at Te Mata Park.

From the Redwoods at Te Mata Park you run through various trails, up to the Tanks carpark then down via the saddle to the Redwoods again. You will do this Te Mata loop twice! We will have a marshal stationed at this point with a band for you to collect before starting your second loop.  (You need to have this band with you at the finish to show you have completed the two loops.)

From there you head back along on the main farm track again. A left turn takes you onto a fast decent and back to the start finish area where you will run over the timing mat smiling.

Course marking on Te Mata Park will be arrows on pickets and a lot of PINK tape!

Stick to the tracks at all times, following the arrows and the line of pickets if the track is not overly clear.

 

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Medium Course ~ 14km

This one starts off by traversing across three paddocks up to the top of your first climb. From there you have rolling paddocks to cross and one main long farm track (which is your main out and back track) with some fantastic views over Hawke’s Bay until you come to the bottom of the Redwoods at Te Mata Park.

Course marking on Te Mata Park will be arrows on pickets and a lot of PINK tape!

From the Redwoods at Te Mata Park you run through various trails (as above image), up to the Tanks carpark then down via the saddle to the Redwoods again. You will do this Te Mata loop only once!

 

From there you head back along the main farm track again. A left turn takes you onto a fast decent and back to the start finish area where you will run over the timing mat smiling!

Stick to the tracks at all times, following the arrows and the line of pickets if the track is not overly clear.

One lap of each of these trails is all you run for the medium course.

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Short Course ~ 6.5km

This one starts off by traversing across three paddocks up to the top of your first climb. From there you have rolling paddocks to cross until you reach your turn around course split point where everyone else heads up onto Te Mata Peak.

You turn right and travel back along the main farm track then take a sharp left hand turn and head down the nice fast decent through a paddock and back to the finish line!

Stick to the tracks at all times, following the line of pickets if the track is not overly clear.

 

 

 

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Finally…

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

Online entries incur an administration fee that will be added when you checkout.

Online entries only and definitely no entry on the day- yes I know your long lost aunty may have been abducted by aliens or the dog ate your homework etc…. Seriously though, its forms part of our safety plan. You cannot enter on the day!

Late entry fees apply from Monday 11th June!

Entries close at midnight on Friday 15th June, sooner if we reach our capacity!

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