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“THANK YOU!” A massive thank you to everyone who helps us make the 2017 Tarawera Ultramarathon an incredible event. Your hard work makes everything happen in the long run. Volunteer Groups Kawerau Gravity Sports Club Edgecumbe College Squadrun Rotorua Army Cadets Rotorua Trail Running Club Rotorua Association of Triathlon & Multisport (RATs) Rotorua Group Challenge Ruamata Kaha Wakaama Jogging the Powerpoles Lynmore Playcentre 75th Squadron Air Cadets Aid Station Captains Blue Lake: Ali Pottinger and Kerry Suter Millar Road: Graham Perks & Carol Harwood Okataina: Amanda Heapy Humphries Bay: Chantelle Phillips Williams Tarawera Outlet: David & Jo Massey Tarawera Falls: Mihiata O’Brien Titoki: Daryl Simpson Awaroa: Boy Simpson Fisherman’s Bridge: Sylvia Bonne River Road: Averil Edhouse Trail Preparation & Course Marking Tim Day, Sue Walker, Edwina O’Brien, Matt O’Brien, Rob Hammington, Mike Leopard, Tim & Belinda Farmer, Mike Goodwin Trail Clearing Volunteers Land Owners & Managers Rotorua Lakes Council Scion The Redwoods, Rotorua Redwoods Treewalk, Rotorua Timberlands Ltd CNI Iwi Holdings Ltd Lake Okareka Community Association The Department of Conservation, Rotorua Tuhourangi Tribal Authority The Okataina Scenic Reserve Board Trust Te Mana o Ngāti Rangitihi Trust Hancock Natural Resource Group Maori Investments Ltd Tarawera Hunting Club Kawerau District Council Special Thanks To Manu Rangiheuea, Anaru Rangiheuea, Alan Skipworth, Leith Comer, Rev. Graham Patio Te Rire and Kiriwaitingi Rei Clearwater Cruises Paradise Valley Springs Shine PR Ltd. Tony Hadlow and Rob Hindley, finelinecreative.co.nz Marcus Diprose Active Timing Ash Palmer Destination Rotorua Jason Cameron and Martin Croft, Rotorua Events and Venues Lee Barton and Amy Hayes Kawerau District Council 4 2 0 1 7 T A R A W E R A U L T R A M A R A T H O N
KIA ORA. WELCOME. Welcome to our ‘real world’ Dear Tarawera runners, supporters and friends, Kia ora and welcome to the ninth annual Tarawera Ultramarathon. Most of society would assume the only way to get from Rotorua to Kawerau is a scenic fifty-minute car journey. At the very minimum, it’s the only sensible way. Anyone who attempts to run between those two towns (through the bush no less) is either mad, has too much time of their hands or is trying to make up for something lacking in their lives (probably brain cells). The ‘real world’ is a place where things muddle along day after day. Get up, work, eat, go to bed – repeat. New ideas are treated sceptically, things start with a whimper, progress and then end with a fizzle. A month later you have forgotten what you did. The real world is a place where ideas are too risky, too ambitious, impossible and doomed to failure. The real world is the place where someone tells you that you are mad to run further than a marathon. It’s selfish – your family will miss you? what if you get lost? you’ll bugger up your knees, wild possums will eat you alive! Besides, it’s not possible – is it? The pessimists have already thought up twenty different failure scenarios before a single success scenario. We don’t live in the real world. The Tarawera Ultramarathon is an event for completely different kinds of people. It’s for dreamers, adventurers, stubborn-minded achievers, creators, craft beer drinkers. The muddy, the sweaty, the bloody, the foul-mouthed and the teary-eyed. It’s for the swashbucklers, the hackers and the rebels. It’s not normal, it’s not sensible – but it’s our real world. The Tarawera Ultra is a way you can make a dent in the universe. You’ve done something that most view as unrealistic, impossible and plain crazy. That feeling is powerful. You have a confidence and calmness about you and a stupid-ass grin spreads across your face when you think about how far you’ve run and what you’ve managed to achieve. That powerful feeling lasts a long time and goes a long way. It translates through to your relationships, work and study, looking after your own health and finding new adventures in your life. It’s not the sort of event you forget in a month, or a year – or ever. As organisers, we get it. Our company is guided by one clear vision “Our Events Change Lives”. We’re not a normal company either. What started as a project in 2008 in Paul’s Mums spare bedroom in Kawerau has expanded into a business that injects $0.9 million dollars into Rotorua with the Ultramarathon alone and brings in a further $1.1 million in GDP into New Zealand. This event provides income for close to a hundred local businesses and community groups and brings in a team of over 400 volunteers on race day. Our other two events, while not covering the same epic distances, help us share the passion for adventure and exploration of some of the most breath-taking trails (and off-trails) in the North Island. April’s Waitomo Trail Run combines above-ground and underground experiences as runners get to explore natural tunnels and otherworldly karst landscapes. November’s Tarawera Trail Marathon and 50k now includes shorter (but no less adventurous) options as we added the new Tikitapu Trail Run 16 and 23km adventure options last year. We have half a dozen new events planned – to be revealed over the comings months and years. Many more seemingly great event ideas have been consigned to the trashcan – sometimes after weeks or even months of work. Whatever we come up with in the future, we can guarantee we’d never put on these events if we operated in the real world. We’re in it because we love what we do and the difference we can make. To each runner, from 42 countries, who’ve signed up: thank you for stepping up to the challenge. You have done the hard work with your training, diet, overcoming injuries, staying healthy as well as balancing work, family and friends just to get to the start-line. Unleash your potential on race day. Race week is Thursday to Sunday. Be part of it. Spread the crazy on social media. Share your passion for this event and for trail ultra-running with our generous sponsors (including our new title sponsor – Compressport), with the volunteers and with your fellow runners. On behalf of the event and our amazing 400-strong volunteer army - see you in February and we look forward to those finish-line hugs. This is your guide to the event. A PDF version is posted on the website www.taraweraultra.co.nz Sarah Rosenbaum Paul Charteris Tim Day Athlete Liaison / Event Race Marketing Organiser Director 2 0 1 7 T A R A W E R A U L T R A M A R A T H O N 5 2 0 1 7 T A R A W E R A U L T R A M A R A T H O N
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