SATURDAY 10 MARCH 2012

Reserve Day Sunday 11 March 2012

Start and Finish

  • Start: Fern Burn, near 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: 15 Feb 2012 @5pm
  • Rego: Fri 9 March 2012 from 5.30pm at Wanaka - click here for more details

Race Day Timing

  • Registration: 5am-5:45am Fern Burn carpark
  • Shuttle Times: 5am-5:30am from Glendhu Bay Motor Camp to Fern Burn
  • Race Briefing: 5.45am
  • Race Start: 6am
  • Sunrise: 8am
  • Highland Hut Cut Off: 11am
  • Rose's Hut Cut Off: 3pm
  • Macetown Cut Off: 6pm
  • Prize Giving: 5 - 6pm
  • Sunset & Finish: 8pm

Race Records

  • Open Male Team:7:25:06
  • Open Mixed Team: 7:48:03
  • Open Female Team: 8:56:43

For further details, click here

 

WHAT'S PROVIDED ON COURSE

Check Points and Water

You are required to be self sufficient for food and fluids. There are many streams that you can refil you water from.

There will be 3 check points you will go through to be marked off when passing through.  They will have the following available for you:

  • Check Point A - Highland Creek Hut: There will be limited supplies. If you need water fill up from one of the  mountain streams you pass by (we have been using this water for 7 years now!).
  • Check Point B - Roses Saddle: There will be Powerade and water. 
  • Check Point C - Macetown: There will be Powerade and water.

Volunteers Services

Around 200 volunteers and staff give up their time to make this a successful event for you - some even overnight in the backcountry for you! These crews include start and finish line information tents, parking crews, registration staff, aid station crews, timing crews, clean up crews, bike mechanics, 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, would be interested in being a volunteer please click here.

Road Closures/Restricted Access

We apply to the Queenstown Lakes District Council to have access restricted to the public on the Motatapu Station and 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.

Medical/Emergency Services

There will be a medic at Highland Creek Hut and Macetown checking competitors as they pass through.  Medics will be nearby at Roses Hut. In a severe accident you will need to use your PLB in order to be located and a team sent out. If you have any concerns please talk to the volunteers at the check points.

Medics and first aid volunteers will be wearing high visibility vests with a white cross. If you, or someone you know, would be interested in being an on-course doctor in return for a Motatapu Icebreaker t-shirt and free entry for two years, please email us.

We brief the police and ambulance services in the weeks before the event with all the relevant maps and course details. 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.

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 the Iconic staff, volunteers and support staff. 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.