SATURDAY 10 MARCH 2012

Reserve Day Sunday 11 March 2012

Start and Finish

• Start: Motatapu Station near Glendhu Bay, Wanaka
• End: Butlers Green, Arrowtown

Key Dates

• Race Day: Sat 10 March 2012
• Reserve Day: Sun 11 March 2012
• Entries Open: 1 July 2011 @ 9am
• Entries closed: 15 Feb 2012 @5pm
• Entry Transfers/Changes Close: Wed 15 Feb 2012 @ 5pm

Entry Fee

• Adult: $140

Race Day Timing

• Free shuttle from Glendhu Bay to the start line: 6am-7am
• Registration: 6:15am-7:45am @ the start line (Motatapu Station)
• Briefing: 7.50am
• Runners Start: 8am
• Walkers Start: 8.05am
• Cut Off at Aid Station 2: 12pm
• Prize Giving: Approximately 3pm
  

Race Records

• Male: John Winsbury 2.38.13
• Female: Sarah Coghlan 3.19.48
• For further records, click here.

WHAT'S PROVIDED ON COURSE

Aid Stations and Water

While you should be carrying enough food and fluids to get you through the race, there will be four self-service aid stations evenly spaced along the course. The water provided at the aid stations has been supplied from nearby mountain streams for seven years without any problems. You can fill your own water bottles up from teh streams too. For further details on the Aid Station locations and provisions, click here.

Volunteers Services

Around 200 volunteers, staff and contractors give up their time to make the Motatapu a successful event for you - some even overnight in the backcountry for you! These crews include start and finish line crews, parking crews, registration crews, aid station crews, timing crews, clean up crews, bike mechanics, medical crews, 4WD club members and Tail End Charlies. Please respect our volunteers and follow their instructions carefully at all times. If you, or someone you know is interested in volunteering please click here.

Medical/Emergency Services

We have seven pre-hospital care medics in Rhino and 4WD vehicles, a doctor & nurse on course, and numerous first aid qualified staff spread throughout the Motatapu courses and at the finish line area, where a doctor is also located. Medics and first aid volunteers will be wearing high visibility vests with a white cross. 

We also brief the police and ambulance services in the weeks before the event with all the relevant maps and course details. We contract the services of Medical Rescue for medical support for the event, however for serious injuries and/or heli-evacuations we rely upon the 111 system already in place. For serious injuries at the finish line that require more than first aid care, you will be directed to the nearest medical clinic or to Queenstown Hospital, near Queenstown Airport.

Road Closures/Restricted Access

We apply to the Queenstown Lakes District Council to have access restricted to the public on the Macetown track. However, while traffic is limited, it does not mean that the roads will be closed as official race vehicles and ambulances will be using these roads in both directions. Please be on the look out for vehicles at all times and remember that normal road rules will apply.

Radio Communications

As cell phone reception is only available at the start and finish lines, we place our own dedicated radio communications services between Glendhu Bay and Arrowtown. This includes installing three radio repeater stations on the highest points along on the route to improve our team’s communications in the valleys. These repeaters link up to other repeaters in the area to approximately 95% coverage to the 50 handheld radios that will be in use by staff, volunteers and support crews. These radios are distributed throughout the course at aid stations, in the designated Queenstown 4WD-Club vehicles and rhinos which carry our Medics and our Tail End Charlies.