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.

Coming soon for 2026

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.

Coming soon for 2026

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 confirmed closer to the event (it’s been Lemon and Superfruits in the past).

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 devices is discouraged. They create risk 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 bone conductor-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.

• In entering this event all participants have agreed to an event waiver whereby they enter and participate at their own risk, and are responsible for their own actions at all times with no liability to the organisers, sponsors, or associated parties.

• You must wear your race number on your chest, on the outside of clothing.

• You must not tamper with or adjust your race number in any way.

• You must start within the zone that fits with your estimated finish time zone.

• You must follow the course as set out in the event programme (issued with your race pack).

• You must obey the directions of course marshals and police at all times.

• You must keep to the side of the road and give way to traffic at all times, unless advised otherwise by marshals or Police.

• Entrants being overtaken must give right of way to faster entrants during the race.

• You must not be accompanied or assisted in any way by cyclists, vehicles, animals or people not entered in the race.

• Absolutely no child buggies, cycles, skateboards, scooters or roller blades on the course.

• Organisers reserve the right to require further information on entrants under 16 years of age.

• Only entrants wearing the official race number will be allowed to enter the finishing chute.

• All entrants must comply with the rules of Athletics New Zealand and World Athletics

• Only participants who are current competitive members of an Athletics New Zealand/Athletics Canterbury club are eligible for NZ or Canterbury championship awards.

• Any entrant who contravenes general competition or race rules will be ineligible for prizes.

• On race day the course controls closes at 1:30pm. Participants on the course after this time will be running unofficially at their own risk and responsibility.