Great Naseby Water Race Details
Run Your Race
Individual Entry.
Team Entry.
Individual Races
200 Mile Race
This race is made up of 32 laps. The race starts at 8am Wednesday 28th August with registration open from 7am that morning. The entry fee is $480.
200km Race
This race is made up of 20 laps. The race starts at 8am Friday 30th August with registration open from 7am that morning. The entry fee is $300.
100 Mile Race
This race is made up of 16 laps. The race starts at 8am Friday 30th August with registration open from 7am that morning. The entry fee is $180.
100km Race
This race is made up of 10 laps. The race starts at 10am Friday 30th August with registration open from 9am that morning. The entry fee is $120.
80km Race
This race is made up of 8 laps. The race starts at 5am Saturday 31st August with registration open from 1pm Friday and 4am Saturday. The entry fee is $120.
50km Race
This race is made up of 5 laps. The race starts at 9am Saturday 31st August with registration open from 1pm Friday and 4am Saturday. The entry fee is $120.
Competitors in the 200 Mile and 200km races must have proven Ultra Experience. Please provide details of your Race History, including proven completion of a 100mile race in the previous 18 months, or a good reason why you should be able to enter. This is a grueling race and may be uncharted territory for some. We will view all applications individually.
Team Race
60km Race
This race is made up of 6 laps with runners completing 3 laps each (30km). The race starts at 9am Saturday 31st August with registration open from 1pm Friday and 4am Saturday. The entry fee is $160 per team.
The Race Format
Course Map
Naseby, New Zealand
The course is set around a 10km figure-eight loop - the one half along a gravel road and the other half on a forest track beside the Water Race that gives the event its name.
This unique ultramarathon event takes place near Naseby - the highest town in New Zealand at 2000ft above sea level. Naseby is 15km north-west by road from Ranfurly and 145km north-west (via Middlemarch) from Dunedin. The race is held on the last weekend of August each year.
Originally the Water Race was built for gold mining around 1860 and now it provides the water supply to the town of Naseby and a stunning backdrop for this intense race.
Loop Details
The Race starts in Wet Gully Road (1 km from Ranfurly/Naseby Road).
Competitors run 500m down this road before turning right into Hoffmans Dam Road.
Continue along Hoffmans Dam Road to Coalpit Dam, then around the Dam, and back up to the Water Race.
Follow the Water Race back to the start/finish line.
Continue along the Water Race, past the swimming dam, across the bridge, and up Forest Walk.
Turn left at the Stone Marker then right onto Translator Road.
Continue to Ramp Road, taking a left back onto Wet Gully Road, to complete lap 1.
Complete each figure-8 loop to finish your race:
5 (five) loops = 50 km
8 (eight) loops = 80 km
10 (ten) loops = 100 km
16 (sixteen) loops = 100 mile
20(twenty) = 200 kms
32 (thirty two) = 200 mile
Teams: Each runner completes 3 (three) continuous laps before swapping.
Race Elevation
Take things to new heights. The Great Naseby Water Race is set in New Zealand’s highest town; 2000ft above sea level.
Running through the forests and hills of this Central Otago town with a little elevation to spice things up.
