Update

Hi Breveteers!

We have 105 total entries, 74 Brevet Individuals, 11 Brevet Teams, 13 Brevette Individuals and 6 Brevette Teams.
At this stage we have allocated 71 Spot Trackers.

YOU have donated a whopping $5940 on our official Givealittle page and I know of a few donations which were made that somehow ended up with the Canterbury West Coast Air Rescue Trust, but not on our page, THANK YOU all!

Thanks to some eagle eyes (thanks Ross and Brian) I have corrected a couple of mistakes on the full Brevet map which is here, there are a couple of further adjustments that need to be made to the track in the next week. Please note that through a couple of sections the .gpx might not be exact BUT at those points you will be on a well formed and obvious track so navigation should not be a problem.
We will have comprehensive cue sheets which we will email out around the middle of January.
It is your responsibility to make yourselves familiar with the course by using the link above for the Brevet and the Brevette link here.
Start looking at the distances between services, find out what time those services are open etc.
We will provide a lot of information but certainly not all.
Some of you may want to start thinking about how far you will get each day and make separate maps for those days. You can create elevation profiles from these, mark where towns etc are.

This preparation is just as important to completing the event as fitness is. It is also the fun part of the prep, enjoy it.

OK, that's all for tonight.

Cheers, Scott and Jo

Updated Entry List

Brevet Individuals Alistair Davidson

Andy Beale

Arran Pearson

Ben Wotherspoon

Bethany Dunne

Brenda Clapp

Brendan Pheasant

Brian Alder

Bruno Geldermans

Chris Bennett

Chris (Pure Sports NZ)

Colin Dodge

Craig Phillips

Davidson Kingan

Dan du Bern

Darren Gosse

Darren Tatom

Dave Cooper

Dave Sharpe

David Connor

Dean Ford

Dean Marshall

Dirk Naish

Gareth Rapley

Gary MacPherson

Gary Mckenzie

Geoff Gabites

Glenn Wright

Greg Galway

Greg Thurlow

Grenville Hirst

Hamish Dalglish

Hamish Southcott

Jackson Foster

Jason Flood

Jasper van der Lingen

Jeremy Bray

Jesse Patel

John de Garnham

John Etherington

Jonathan Kennett

Karl Yager

Keith Payne

Kirk Hamiltom

Luke Thompson

Margaret Leyland

Mark Wattie

Matt Roberts

Matt Quirk

Michael Dann

Michael Emerson

Mitch Potter

Nathan Mawkes

Oli de Bern

Paul Chaplow

Paul Horton

Paul Nicholls

Peter Maindonald

Peter Schaap

Phil Brownie

Rob Davidson

Rob Hoult

Ross Friedrich

Scotti Andrews

Scott Symes

Sebastien Dunne

Shelley Friedrich

Steve Bilton

Steve Halligan

Steve Makin

Steven Mac Leod

Stuart Maxwell

Thomas Crowley

Thomas Ekholm

Brevet Teams

Craig Madsen & Mark Humphries Geof & Denise Thorne Kim Daubney, Allister Adams Derek Poshtar & Evan Bywater Barryn Westfield, Jackie O'hagan & Trever Woodword Sam Davidson & Jon Keyzer Meg & Kim Carrigan Coastal Crew' Kirsty Moran & Robyn Blyth Bike Fit Marlborough' (Craig Murphy & Ant Clark) Ben Taylor & Chris Todd Brevette Individuals Andy Gilbert Craig Moss Dean Cameron Elisha Nuttall Emily Powell Gordon Sloane Iain Dephoff John Carman Lou Perkins Mike O'Connor Nicki Squire Peter Goodman Phil Jones Brevette Teams James Burgess & Alex Dyer Scrambled Legs Richard Hiles-smith & Nigel Walls Alex & Dianne Grigg Marcus Peters & Kieran Tibble Alastair McDowell, Ben Gibson, Isla Smith

2015 Route and Map links

We have just emailed this out to all registered entrants:

Good evening,

As most of you will be aware the Kiwi Brevet has been run three times previously. The first year in an anti-clockwise direction, the second time in a clockwise direction, the third iteration was back to anti-clockwise but it used the Rainbow Road in place of the Molesworth Road. 

Following on in this tradition, the 2015 edition will go in a clockwise direction and will also use the Rainbow Road with a couple of wee changes from the 2014 route.

The dreaded North Bank Rd is back! I have it on good authority that it has had a years use by logging trucks and is in much much better condition than earlier this year. We aim to stay on the lower road the whole way because we can guarantee the forestry managers that everyone will be through on day one (Saturday 31st January).

The Brevet will take in the St James Cycleway which starts just after the glorious Island Saddle descent, past Lake Tennyson, and will therefore miss out (nearly) all of the body jarring corrugations on the Lake Tennyson Road :-)

The Brevette will hang a left at Sedgemere Lakes, just before the ascent of Island Saddle, and take in the beautiful Alma Valley (Severn to Sedgemere 4WD Road) which brings you out near Red Gate on the Acheron Road (Molesworth Station Rd), which you will then follow out to Acheron Accommodation and onto Hanmer.

The other change is near the other end of the courses. The fantastic ascent of the Porika Track is still there but you won't be turn right when you hit St Arnaurd-Kawatiri Road, instead you will turn left and head down the valley to Kawatiri, then right again onto Kohatu-Kawatiri Road. You head up the valley turning off the main road onto Tadmor-Glenhope Rd for some more gravel and tarsal before popping out at Tapawera.

The course then follows the main road North for 6 or 7kms before turning onto another nice gravel road which pops you out on part of the Great Taste Trail. From there the next stop is Wakefield and then the same course as previous Brevets to finish. 

The Brevet will be 1151kms and the Brevette 739kms.

I will come back with some points about the route changes but will leave you to digest it all for now.

Please find the two links below to the Brevet and Brevette course maps.

2015 Full Brevet 

2015 Brevette

Enjoy the planning, Scott and Jo

Update

Good morning everyone,

I have updated the Entry List in the previous post.

Currently we have 94 places (teams and individuals, Brevet and Brevette) taken up and 115 individual people taking part.

We have had about 80 donations, so still waiting for a few to put money where their mouth is ;-)

We will have the course map up this week.

Keep up your training and adventuring,

Cheers, Scott and Jo

Updated - Entrant list so far

This is the list so far, as at 8am on Monday the 8th December If you think your name should be here or if something is wrong please email us at kiwibrevet@gmail.com

Brevet Individuals

Alistair Davidson

Andy Beale

Arran Pearson

Bethany Dunne

Brenda Clapp

Brendan Pheasant

Brian Alder

Bruno Geldermans

Chris Bennett

Chris (Pure Sports NZ)

Colin Dodge

Craig Phillips

David Kingin

Dan du Bern

Darren Gosse

Darren Tatom

Dave Cooper

Dave Sharpe

David Connor

Dean Cameron

Dean Ford

Dean Marshall

Derek Poshtar

Dirk Naish

Gareth Rapley

Gary MacPherson

Greg Galway

Greg Thurlow

Hamish Dalglish

Hamish Southcott

Jackson Foster

Jason Flood

Jasper van der Lingen

Jeremy Bray

Jesse Patel

John de Garnham

John Etherington

Jonathan Kennett

Karl Yager

Keith Payne

Kirk Hamiltom

Luke Thompson

Mark Wattie

Matt Roberts

Matt Quirk

Michael Dann

Mitch Potter

Nathan Mawkes

Oli de Bern

Paul Chaplow

Paul Horton

Paul Nicholls

Peter Maindonald

Phil Brownie

Rob Davidson

Rob Hoult

Ross Friedrich

Scott Symes

Sebastien Dunne

Shelley Friedrich

Steve Halligan

Steve Makin

Steven Mac Leod

Stuart Maxwell

Thomas Crowley

Thomas Ekholm

Brevet Teams

Craig Madsen & Mark Humphries

Geof & Denise Thorne

Kim Daubney, Allister Adams

Derek Poshtar & Evan Bywater

Barryn Westfield, Jackie O'hagan & Trever Woodword

Sam Davidson & Jon Keyzer

Meg & Kim Carrigan

Coastal Crew'

Kirsty Moran & Robyn Blyth

Bike Fit Marlborough' (Craig Murphy & Ant Clark)

Ben Taylor & Chris Todd

Brevette Individuals

Andy Gilbert

Craig Moss

Elisha Nuttall

Emily Powell

Gordon Sloane

John Carman

Lou Perkins

Mike O'Connor

Nicki Squire

Peter Goodman

Phil Jones

Brevette Teams

James Burgess & Alex Dyer

Scrambled Legs

Richard Hiles-smith & Nigel Walls

Alex & Dianne Grigg

Marcus Peters & Kieran Tibble

Alastair McDowell, Ben Gibson, Isla Smith