The Hunua Hillbilly 2024
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9th August 2024 to 9th November 2024
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9th August 2024 to 9th November 2024
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Total Challenge Points
Challenge yourself to Auckland’s toughest Ultramarathon!
The 2025 Hunua Hillbilly, on Saturday, March 15th includes the all-new 42km Trail marathon and 22km Run/Walk options.
Come and join a beautifully brutal trail journey through the Hunua Ranges’ stunning native bush and experience an event like no other!
Tackle the original 60km Ultramarathon, a course which demands some serious respect! Or take on the all new Marathon or 22km course options which still deliver a fair share of challenge of their own, plus plenty single trail bliss!
Make a whole weekend of it with camping options, post event dinner and the Hunua Hillbilly Hoedown. This promises to be a very special event with very limited numbers.
Here's where this challenge can help - it will motivate you to run the trails, and the more grunty the trail, the more points you score - and you could win a free entry to the event!
Complete any trail from our trail running directory during the three month challenge period and you're earning points on the leaderboard. Simple.
How to earn Challenge Points:
What's the Grunt Factor? Find out here...
View the Hunua Hillbilly trail
We have three free entries to giveaway, for any distance, worth $960!
Once entries open, we will happily refund the winner (or you can gift it to a running buddy!) if you have already entered, so don’t let the challenge stop you from entering.
Remember, VIPs get 10% off entry thanks to your VIP Discount.
The Hunua Hillbilly event info
All trails are included in this challenge.
No worries — you can join a Wild Challenge at any time while it's running.
When you join, we'll automatically award any challenge points you've earned since the challenge started, so you won't miss out just because you joined late.
If you've only just connected Strava or Garmin, we'll sync your last three months of activities too, so eligible activities can still count towards the challenge.
Connect your Strava or Garmin account to Wild Things and we'll automatically sync your activities and add any that qualify to the challenge.
You don't need to add activities manually — just get out there and do your thing! Each challenge has its own criteria for earning points, so check the challenge details above to see what counts.
If you use both Strava and Garmin, you can connect both — we won't create duplicate activities.
Absolutely. You can join as many Wild Challenges as you like, and the same activity can earn points across multiple challenges if it meets the criteria for each one.
We usually draw challenge winners a few days after the challenge finishes. We wait at least 2–3 days to allow any late activities to sync from Strava or Garmin before finalising the results.
If you're a winner, we'll get in touch with you directly.
Yes. Wild Challenges are exclusively for Wild Things VIP members. Become a VIP and you can join any of our current challenges, earn points and be in to win some epic prizes.
No worries — you can join a Wild Challenge at any time while it's running.
When you join, we'll automatically award any challenge points you've earned since the challenge started, so you won't miss out just because you joined late.
If you've only just connected Strava or Garmin, we'll sync your last three months of activities too, so eligible activities can still count towards the challenge.
Connect your Strava or Garmin account to Wild Things and we'll automatically sync your activities and add any that qualify to the challenge.
You don't need to add activities manually — just get out there and do your thing! Each challenge has its own criteria for earning points, so check the challenge details above to see what counts.
If you use both Strava and Garmin, you can connect both — we won't create duplicate activities.
Absolutely. You can join as many Wild Challenges as you like, and the same activity can earn points across multiple challenges if it meets the criteria for each one.
We usually draw challenge winners a few days after the challenge finishes. We wait at least 2–3 days to allow any late activities to sync from Strava or Garmin before finalising the results.
If you're a winner, we'll get in touch with you directly.
Yes. Wild Challenges are exclusively for Wild Things VIP members. Become a VIP and you can join any of our current challenges, earn points and be in to win some epic prizes.
