2011 North Island Race Information will be available shortly, including a 7 minute DVD to give you an insight into this exciting race. Official registration documents will be online soon! For more info, please contact Rosemary on r.such@curekids.org.nz

Training Events

There are plenty of events happening in the lead up to the Cure Kids Great Adventure Race which you might find helpful in your training, here are some ideas... (click on each event for more details)

Lactic Turkey Events

Lactic Turkey hold a number of events Click here for more details.

Summer Orienteering Series

You may like to use these as a bit of training run to see who is the natural ‘navigator’ of the team. Courses range at each event from easy under 2km run/walk to ‘challenging’ 6-10km.

Also check out www.sportzhub.co.nz

Official Race Map

As per race rule, all teams must use this map, Hunua & Waitakere Recreation Areas Edition 2 2005. If you are having trouble finding it, please contact Rosemary at Cure Kids to purchase a copy from us.

From a Past Competitor

"Just to think, the pain that some of our team members experienced these young ambassadors of yours experience every day of their lives.  A highlight for me was the young people meeting us as we came over the finishing line, they made it worth it." Karen Ives, Paper Plus

Click on box below to check out 2010 race pics and stories

Training in the Waitakere Ranges: Alert

A disease has been identified in the Waitakere Ranges which is threatening the health of kauri trees in the area. Please click here to download important information before you visit the park.

A Special Message from ARC: Looking after Our Native Frogs

Native Frogs in Hunua
Native frogs were once common but are now found in only a fraction of the places they once were. The Hochstetter’s frog is the only one of four native frogs in NZ which occurs in Auckland. The Hunua Ranges is one of the few remaining places where this it remains in relatively good numbers. The streams in the Ranges provide good habitat for these secretive threatened species.

Protecting Frogs
Please help us to protect and minimize damage to the frogs sensitive habitat at this event site. Frogs are crushed, and their habitat is destroyed, by walking and running in and around narrow and headwater forested streams. Frogs have lost so much habitat already – they need as many streams in undisturbed mature forest as possible to survive.

Frog Habitat
Hochstetter’s frogs live under rocks, stones or logs next to small shaded streams in undisturbed mature forest. Even when they are not hidden under cover they are still very hard to see as they are well camouflaged with their surroundings. They are easily crushed when walking in these habitats– you would not even know you had stepped on one.

NZ’s Frogs are all Threatened
All NZ’s native frog species are classified as threatened both nationally and internationally. The main threats they face are habitat destruction (e.g. the clearance of mature forest), introduced predators, and more recently a disease (chytrid fungus, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) which has caused large declines in the Archeys frog (in Coromandel) and could potentially affect Hochstetter’s. Frogs are protected species under the Wildlife Act to ensure they do not decline to Extinction.

More Information
More information on NZ’s native frogs can be found at:

http://www.doc.govt.nz/conservation/native-animals/reptiles-and-frogs/frogs/