Avantidrome, 15 Hanlin Rd, Cambridge 3283
Type of Course – Out and back
Shoes Required – Road
Things to know
There is ample free parking at the Avantidrome and toilets in the car park. Parking suitable for motorhomes.
Forgot your barcode? Email the RD to print out.
No showers nearby
Very low risk of cancellation
Not permanently marked
Cafe: The Bikery Café & Catering (at Avantidrome).
Location of start:
The event starts near the Avantidrome car park.
Getting there by public transport
The 20 service leaves from the Cambridge i-Site and stops at the Avantidrome. See the Busit website for timetable.
Getting there on foot
From Cambridge township Head northwest on Thermal Explorer Hwy/Victoria St turn left into Hamilton Rd which becomes Cambridge Rd turn left onto St Peters School Rd, destination on left.
Getting there by road
From Cambridge township head northwest on Thermal Explorer Hwy/Victoria St turn left into Hamilton Rd which becomes Cambridge Rd turn left onto St Peters School Rd, destination on left.
From Hamilton follow State Highway 1 south. Take the Cambridge West exit, turn right into St Peters School and left onto St Peters School Rd then right onto Hanlin Rd and park at the Avantidrome.
Stats
First run: March 4, 2017
Inaugural attendance: 95
Record attendance: 170 (01/01/2019)
Course records
Women: Charli Miller 18:57 (03/03/2018)
Men: Jonny McKee 16:28 (25/01/2020)
The Story Behind Cambridge NZ parkrun…
Brian Prescott, event director
I hadn’t even been to a parkrun when Rob Hammington and Lex Chalmers from Hamilton Lake were looking at setting up Cambridge parkrun.
They had put a few words out around the place. Someone mentioned me and then somehow I ended up as event director.
Rob and Lex set it up and I took it over and I’m still here. It took me six months before I got to run one. I’ve run 61 now.
We’ve quite a good rivalry with Cambridge parkrun in the UK. We’ve had a few visitors from Cambridge UK.
It took a year before anyone had run the double but there are quite a few now, but we’ve not had anyone go over there to run their one.
We were set up as an overspill to Hamilton Lake, they were well-established and thinking it could expand. Originally they looked at starting at the Gaslight Theatre end, which is where we turn around but there’s no toilets or cafe.
The Avantidrome gives us those facilities and some character. We’ve a brutal short hill at the end but it’s all psychological.
There aren’t many parkruns to have their name and country in the title, there are quite a few twins in Australia (same name as a parkrun or town in the UK), but we’re the only one in New Zealand.
While in Cambridge…
Avantidrome
Lake Karapiro
Sanctuary Mountain/Maungatautiri
Waikato River Trails
Hobbiton Tour