Lake Tutira – 5th April 2020

In partnership with the HB Regional Council & Maungaharuru-Tangitū Trust

Start Location.

The start is at the Eastern side of the lake down the shingle driveway access off SH2, the Napier to Wairoa Road. This is approximately a 40min drive from central Napier.

Drive in until you see the event HQ. Parking is on the main paddock by the HQ. We have some overflow parking in the camp ground area especially if its wet. It’s on the left as you drive in. Please follow the direction of the parking Marshall. Park sensibly, being mindful of others.

As always parking loads of cars in winter is a little tricky so we really appreciate it if you could carpool where possible.

Registration will be open from 8:00am. Collect your timing number from the registration area as indicated.

Please Note!!

The area is managed by the HB Regional Council and the Maungaharuru-Tangitū Trust and we have to abide by their rules of use. There is strictly NO DOGS ALLOWED! This means no dogs even if you intend to leave them in the car.

Briefing and Start Times

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

Medium Course: Compulsory Briefing 9:50am, start time is 10:00am.

Short Course: Compulsory Briefing 10:20am, start time is 10:30am.

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.

This is a working farm. Some gates will be closed. Please go through the gates rather than over them. Leave them as you find them. That means, if you open it, you close it. If you do decide to climb over a gate, make sure you climb over at the hinge end.

Half Marathon ~ 21.1km (this is a challenge for the first run) 2 laps.

We know you will enjoy this course, we have enjoyed setting it.

We will start with a loop of the carpark before you head out on the Eastern side of the lake and follow the Gailbraith’s Track for most of this run. This trail is very well marked with nice big wooden posts that are painted bright Orange and we will be following these and our own coloured arrows for most of the run so it does make the trail very easy to follow.

There is a small section of this run on the main shingle access road to the HQ car park so please be aware of vehicles heading towards you on the road section (300m approx). Keep to the left hand side of the road until you turn into the campground.

This half marathon course will have a cut off time of 12:00pm at the Start/Finish area on the first lap. If you are unable to make this point in 2 1/2 hours you won’t be able to make the finish by cut off at 1:30pm. You will not be able to start your second lap after the cut off time.

Medium Course ~ 10.6km

Short Course ~ 5.5km

We will start you off on the shingle road towards the campground before heading off up around the Eastern side of the lake.

From there you travel about 2km before a course split sends you left and down again away from the Medium and Long courses.

This is followed by a nice little up and over track through some lovely forest then back out to the Start/Finish area.

Finally…

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

Please note there are no refunds, transfers or deferrals once entered.

All entries incur a credit card transaction fee that will be added at the checkout. Only online entry is available and there are definitely no entries on the day. Please do not ask to enter once entries are closed as to be be fair to those who have entered on time, the answer will always be no. Entries close at midnight on Friday 3rd April. You cannot enter on the day.

Enter Here

Late entry fees will apply from Monday 30th March. Click on Peter, our friendly Pukeko to enter