SATURDAY 10 MARCH 2012

Reserve Day Sunday 11 March 2012

Start and Finish

• Start: Butlers Green, Arrowtown
• 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 @ 5pm
• Entry Transfers/Changes Close: Wed 15 Feb 2011 @ 5pm
• Pre-Race Registration: Fri 9 March 2012 5.30-8pm @ Butlers Green, Arrowtown

Entry Fee

• Adult: $95

Race Day Timing

• Registration: 7.30-8.30am
• Briefing: 8.50am 
• Race Start: 9am
• Prize Giving: 2-3pm

Race Stats

• Course Record Male: Alan Funnell - 1:21:42
• Course Record Female: Louisa Andrew - 1:30:46
• Oldest Competitor: Max McDermid - 82
• Average Competitor Age: 42
• Average Walk time: 3:31:39
• Average Run time: 2:43:08

For further stats, click here

WHAT'S PROVIDED ON COURSE

Aid Stations & Water

While you should be carrying enough food and fluids to get you through the race, there will be one aid station around half way. For further details on the Aid Station locations & provisions, click here.

Volunteers Services

Around 200 volunteers and staff 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 please click here.

Medical/Emergency Services

We have seven pre-hospital care medics in Rhino and 4WD vehicles, two doctors and numerous first aid qualified staff spread throughout the Motatapu courses and at the finish line area. 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-bike doctor in return for an Motatapu Icebreaker t-shirt and two free entries, please email us.

We also 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.

Road Closures/Restricted Access

We apply to the Queenstown Lakes District Council to have access restricted to the public on the Macetown road. 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.