RACE DAY

All activities on race weekend will be based from Hagley Park, at the Armagh Street gates entrance.

This includes the start, finish and prize giving.

On race day a secure bag storage area will be available from the event HQ. Your race number has a detachable bag tag. Write your name on this and attach to your bag and hand in to the gear storage area.

There will be entertainment, sponsor displays, event merchandise and vendors with food and beverages available all weekend.

Our partners at Sports Clinic will be providing post-race massages, so please book here - https://www.sportsclinic.co.nz/services/massage

On race day a secure bag storage area will be available from the event HQ.

Your race number has a detachable bag tag. Write your name on this and attach it to your bag and hand it in to the bag drop.

On race day, participants should plan their transport and parking requirements.

No parking will be allowed on the course at any time.

For maps of city car parking. Click Here.

There are Aid Stations approx. every 3-4k with toilets, first aid, water & PURE Nutrition isotonic energy drink in paper cups. There are no sponges, coke or bottles provided. PURE flavours will be Lemon & Super Fruit).

The Event HQ will have portable toilets.

Hagley Park has public toilets within a 5min jog.

There are public toilets at Cathedral Sq, 5min jog away.

Aid Stations will have portable toilets.

Walkers must only walk. Entrants wishing to walk/jog must enter as runners.

There are no prizes for walkers as we are unable to referee the walking participants. This is purely for the fun and enjoyment of being a part of the event.

Walkers are identified by the red lettering on race numbers. Race numbers must be visible at all times.

Walkers must line up toward the rear of their event.

Please do not walk more than three-abreast at any time.

NB: there is no official walk category in the Full Marathon because of traffic management restrictions requiring the course to be closed by 1:30pm.

Music Devices

The use of earphone/earbud music devises is strongly discouraged. They are dangerous due to users not being able to hear course officials, other participants or traffic around them. We have had participants fall over due to users of music devises. Please do not wear these during the event. The exception is the Aftershokz-style earpiece, where they sit on your skull, rather than in your ear.

Traffic Controls

There will be traffic controls on the course. BUT this does not mean there will be no vehicles on the roads. We must cater for traffic movements at major intersections, resident movements on the course, and access for emergency vehicles. You will not have sole use of the roads. At all times you must keep to the side of the road, watch for traffic, obey normal road rules and follow instructions of marshals.

Course Cut-Offs

Due to traffic management restrictions, the course controls and marshalling will close at 1:30pm. Participants on the course after these times will be marshalled on to footpaths and be running unofficially without course controls and at their own risk and responsibility.