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Whakatane Great Outdoors Monty's Revenge

 

2010

Mark the 19th June in your dairies. High tide is at 12:06 so this year you might get an outgoing tide for the kayak section! But the runners may have a slightly tougher beach run. Predictions are that overall times will be quicker.

This scenic and achieveable mid winter challenge includes a 12km run along the cliffs to Ohope Beach, a 23km mountain bike ride through scenic bush and farmland and a 20km paddle down the Whakatane river. 


2009 RESULTS

Full Monty click here

Duathlon Women click here

Duathlon Men click here

Enter Now! (Entry form as a PDF)

Enter on-line at www.montysrevenge.co.nz

Course map click here

Photo Gallery click here to see more photos

The competition. Click here to find out who has entered. Note these are on-line entries up to June 4th.

Conditions of entry and race rules. Click here to view

NEWS

17/06/09

COURSE CHANGE

The course has been changed due to floods in the car parking at transition 2. The new course involves a kayak stage on the Ohiwa Harbour. Click here for map.

04/06/09

PRIZE POOL CLIMBS TO $10,000

Thanks to the generous support of the Whakatane Great Outdoors, the Whakatane Cycle Centre and Wrightsons the prize pool keeps getting bigger. Spot prizes will be given out at race registration and at the prize giving.

CONDITIONS OF ENTRY/RACE RULES AND BRIEFING

The race briefing prior to the start will only cover last minutes changes. It is important that all competitors and support crews read the conditions of entry and race rules before the event. A copy of all race information will be handed out at registration - please circulate these amongst your team and support crew. Click here to view

STYLE WAR ERUPTS

Many are taking the retro theme to extreme. A fashion war is brewing! Barry Cutfield has gone one better than Chris Morissey - look out for him, actually you won't miss him!

28/05/09

RETRO THEME

There will be prizes for the best dressed in theme. Chris Morrisey has promised to wear stubbies. What can you do help us celebrate 10 years?

MOUNTAIN BIKE COURSE

The Mountain Bike Track is open, marked and ready for pre-event rides. Those without Whakatane Mountain Bike Club membership should get a permit from: the Whakatane Information Centre (0800 WHAKATANE) or the Whakatane Cycle Centre (073088663). Please note the course is only 90% marked some sections are closed until the event. For those familiar with Rawhiti MTB Park be aware that the Eastern Express normally ridden downhill from the transmitter will form part of the uphill section (same as 2008).

SPONSORS

Please support the following sponsors:

Whakatane Great Outdoors, Whakatane Cycle Centre, Focus Charterd Accountants, Wrightson PGA.

Thanks also to: Toi-EDA, Whakatane Land Based Search and Rescue, Whakatane Radio Club, Environment BOP.

Active Timing will get accurate and speedy results!

 

PREVIEW BY JIM ROBINSON


How time flies. This June, the Whakatane Great Outdoors Monty’s Revenge celebrates ten years – already. Past winners are a who’s who of multisport, from Sophie Hart and Rachel Cashin to Gordon Walker and Ben Fouhy. Last year over 500 turned out. This year, race director Mike Van der Boom reckons, entries are tracking the same way.


The guy who sparked it all off in 2000 was Monty McGougan, who had the idea of creating a multisport race as a waka ama club fundraiser. Ten years on, “keeping it fresh” is a bit of a philosophy for Van der Boom, who runs events for the local council, to promote Whakatane as an adventure destination. In 2009, you can tackle the 55km (thereabouts) of glorious trail running, mountain biking and kayaking as an individual, as a pair, or as part of a team, doing one stage each.


Or, you can scuttle the boat and tackle the second Monty’s duathlon, which proved a smash hit last year, with 70 starters. The duathlon’s a great option for landlubbers. And be sure, with a 12km riverside run to replace the paddle – it’s certainly no walk in the park.


The Monty’s Revenge mountain bike course continues to morph, thanks largely to the expanding opportunities of the Rawhiti forest. New trails are being developed all the time by the keen folk in Whakatane mountain bike club (www.whakatane.mtbclub.org.nz). Still, regardless of route specifics, the ride is a gut-buster, taking in a 450m grunt to the ridgeline above town, before plunging down to the Whakatane river. While it’s hard work, the trails and 4WD tracks are never fearsomely technical; and if your nerves fail, the tricky spots are short enough to walk without losing much time. The descent, Van der Boom asserts, is technically easier than last year.


The opening 14km run around the Pacific coastline from Whakatane to Ohope is unchanged from previous years (panoramic views for pleasure and hundreds of steps for pain). So too, the third stage paddle down the Whakatane. Even if the river is high -and it has certainly been so in a couple of past Monty’s races - the flow is not fast. Definitely no rapids! In fact, over the last 10km you’re achingly liable to face an incoming tide.

“We’re planning to make this Monty’s a bit special,” says Van der Boom. He’s keen to see competitors get kitted out in “retro” gear. Mountain bikes with rim brakes, anyone?


10 years of Monty’s reports

• 2000: “Ben Fouhy recorded the second fastest paddle of the day and won by a three-minute margin. First of the females was Kate Callaghan, while the NZ Vet Champ Evan McRae provided his usual great performance.”
• 2001: “Evan McRae proved age is no barrier, by taking out the overall win.”
• 2002: “A deluge of over 250mm of rain had flooded the Whakatane river and sunk the local rescue craft the day prior.”
• 2003: “Havelock North policeman, George Christison, took the race by the scruff of the neck from the start.”
• 2004: “The open women’s section was won by Sophie Hart for the second year in a row.”
• 2005: “One month after the second 100-year flood to hit the Eastern Bay of Plenty in 10 months … a huge section of last year’s MTB course no longer exists.”
• 2006: “Sophie Hart had a buffer of seven minutes for the 20km of paddling … [she] finished the full Monty’s in 2hrs 46min ahead of Rachel Cashin.”
• 2007: “The breeze was almost as cool and sharp as Auckland's Stuart Lynch and Taumarunui's Rachel Cashin.”
• 2008: "Teunis Schoneveld and Neil Gellatly needed 3 hours and 30 minutes to sort out who was going to take line honours … Schoneveld sprinted to the line first..”


FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL Mike Van der Boom on 07 3072050 or email mikev@whakatane.govt.nz

 

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