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11/01/2009 - 11/30/2009Kauri Run
Coromandel,
New Zealand
This 25km (15.5 miles) run has great green credentials, combining rigorous exercise with a tree planting programme. Beginning on a spectacular beach, runners follow tracks and trails up to a high point of 560m (1,840ft) above sea level, with exceptionally beautiful views over the Pacific Coast, Hauraki Gulf and Coromandel Ranges, before descending to Coromandel. Individual runners, walkers and teams of three can take part. This peninsula was once cloaked in giant Kauri trees. The idea is to replace some of those which have been lost to the loggers. Competitors take at least two and a half hours, and up to seven hours to complete the arduous course.
Themes:
Nature & Wildlife
, Sport
Hours: Walkers start 0800; runners start 1000.
Cost: Free to spectate.
Where: Roads and trails on the Coromandel Peninsula
Course begins Waikawau Beach, then along Central Divide, up to Kaipawa, down to Coromandel; finishing line at school fields
Coromandel, New Zealand
Getting there:
Road: Coromandel, at the tip of Coromandel Peninsula, is about 250km (156 miles) by road east of Auckland. As part of entry fee a bus service is provided from Coromandel township to the start line
Contact Information:
Adventure Racing Coromandel (ARC)
No postal address available
Coromandel
North Island
New Zealand
Telephone: +64 (0)7 866 8613.
Website: www.arcevents.co.nz
