CHUCKA´S RUN

SUNDAY 30 OCTOBER 2010

Chucka´s Run is now an established event on the Port Hills running calendar, and is an annual run along the top tracks above Lyttleton organized by the one and only Chucka.

Chucka's Run this year is on Sunday 30 October and is once again going to start from Hansen Park with the bus leaving at 0800 and making one stop at Little River on our way to the Hilltop Tavern where will begin our journey.

The course is exactly the same as in previous years with us running along the Summit Road for a couple of hundred metres before we see a track going into some bush on the left.

It is walk/run through this part until we reach the clearing where we will regroup and head off together and meet up on the main track at the first gate. We will divide into some packs for the rest of the way which is a choice of two with one being 28km and the second 35km roughly. We all head along the tops till we get to the top of Mount Herbert where you wait for your group. The short course goes down to Diamond Harbour where the bus will be waiting and it will take you to Teddington Tavern.

The long course goes past the shelter and then hang a left over a style and go around the back of Mount Bradley till you get to the Packhorse Hut and from here follow the track to Gebbies Pass. You then run the last couple of kms to the Teddington Tavern where you can stop and replenish on lost reserves before heading back for an arrival time back at Hansen Park of 1700. 

If anyone would like to do this I can be contacted by phone at 9808395, 027358 7153 or by email and the cost is $25.

Chucka

Photos from Chucka´s Run 2009