BTU - FAQ’s
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We’ve put together a comprehensive BTU Event guide into a booklet that should answer almost every event question that you have about the BTU and also give your support crew some great information about where to buy coffee, great burgers or to join a BTU Party.
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Three weeks before the event we book the transfers. We will upload a transfer list to a page for you to check that you are on this list.
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Sadly no. You can go on our “Standby List” or jump on our Facebook Community Group Page and see if anyone will share a Ride Share with you to the start line.
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Yes! If you are in the BTU20, BTU30, BTU60 BTu110, and BTU100Mi if is best that you park at our finish line and catch the transfer bus to the start line of your event.
Kangaroo Cliffs Park Car Parking Options
Free Parking can be found on the street, check the signs
or
Coles Woolloongabba
795 Stanley St
Brisbane QLD 4102
If you’d like secure parking you can find this at St Vincents Hospital;
Wilson Parking Australia 1992 Pty Ltd
St Vincent's Private Hospital
411 Main St
Brisbane QLD 4169
For around $20/day.
Closer to the event you can check your car parking updates on this website as they may have changed.
CP6 Mahogany Trail Car Park
This car park is only to be use for the BTU110 and BTU100Mi support crew.
Car parking for support crews and runners for the BTU10 and BTU20 can be found along Sir Samuel Griffith Drive and Scenic Drive. Please see the CAPRA app for more details.
Corra-Mulling Park Car Parking
There is street parking in the area for your support crew, family and friends. If you are driving yourself, the best option is to catch our transfer to the start line and park at Kangaroo Cliffs area mentioned above.
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Kangaroo Point Park the Finish Line of your event before 3pm on Sunday.
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We have two timing companies we use for the BTU100Mi, BTU100 and BTU60. One called “Track Me Live”, GPS Tracking , the other called “Onetime Timing, Live Tracking” which is the timing company for the whole event. Onetime Timing, is the timing mats that you cross at the start and finish line, plus other key points on the course. The timing chip is a “foot pod” foot pod that comes in the envelope in your race pack. This is the timing chip, it is not a GPS Tracker and it is to be worn on your foot. All runners in the BTU will have this form of timing and it must be worn on your foot.
We will put the links up on the home page for race day tracking for both these websites.
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Only Runners in the BTU110 and BTU100Mi can have a pacer.
If you are racing an BTU110 or BTU100Mi, we’d love for your mates to join you on the course.
They must follow these key rules on our pacer page and they MUST enter themselves and fill out their own medical/emergency contact details as we treat them like another entrant on our course. See our pacer page for more info.
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Yes!
But we have some key rules that your support crew must follow and key places they can not park. See our Support Crew Page for more details.
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Yes, if you hand your support crew your drop bag they can take it for you.
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NO. They must follow you on the Track Me Live Website page. You can find this link on the home page on Race Day.
The Capra App can be used by your support crew family and friends to locate the check points and navigate the best spectator spots, parking, and other information along the course including cafes, toilets etc.
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Yes 🙌 if you are racing the BTU20, BTU30, BTU110, and BTU100Mi, you must wear the High Vis Vest that meets the Australian Safety Standards for road safety during the day when crossing any of the roads on our course. Yes! It must be exactly like to one shown on the Mandatory Gear page. That is why it is called mandatory gear.
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Yes, for the BTU100Mi/BTU110 runners you must carry a power pack to charge your battery on the run.
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Yes. That is why it is called mandatory gear list. The only exception is the “Foul Weather Kit” which we will give details about after we see the forecast on the Wednesday before the event and then confirm at 5pm on Friday before the event at the safety briefing.
We carry out regular safety gear checks across the course to ensure that all runners are carrying their gear for the event. Any runner found without any item on the list will be given a 2 hour time penalty plus held at that checkpoint until they can find the correct gear to take with them. If that item can’t be found the runner will be disqualified and taken from the course.
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BTU100Mi, BTU100, BTU60 Runners all can get their gear checked at Wild Earth Brisbane and Gold Coast Stores. BTU20 and BTU30 will be checked for a High Vis Vest at the start line of their event. They will be asked you take it out of their packs and put it on the outside of their race packs in the start line chute of their event.
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BRISBANE TRAIL ULTRA® NATURAL DISASTER, PANDEMIC, SOCIAL UNREST PROTOCOL
1 month before the event Brisbane Trail Ultra hosts a stakeholders meeting and the following is discussed;
Conditions of the trails
Long range Weather Forecast
Planned Asset Protection Burns
Whether a Contingency Course is required as the preferred course for that year's event.
Potential for riots, pandemic and social unrest.
A Newsletter is sent to entrants via this website, offering details about any changes for the BTU for the upcoming event. Please subscribe to this newsletter and confirm your subscription to ensure it is not blocked in spam.
We then follow the following protocol;
We check the long-range forces and communication about “possible” weather conditions during the day and ensure everyone has the quality mandatory gear.
We check the weather one week before the event - Newsletter Sent
We then re-check the weather on Wednesday. Newsletter Sent - warn of any changes to mandatory gear and if a foul weather kit might be needed.
Then, on Friday at 5:30 pm, we will confirm if foul weather is predicted. Confirm all changes to the mandatory Gear. The newsletter will be sent and posted on FB.
The protocol is that if unprecedented rainfall, natural disaster, riot, pandemic, etc, occurred during the BTU, that wasn’t forecasted or predicted is as follows;
All Runners on the course will receive a Text Message via the CAPRA App, Runners will be advised to go to the nearest checkpoint. and told to listen to the direction of the Check Point Managers.
If a runner is required to go to a different location other than a check, point they will be contacted to do this.
Please ensure that you’ve downloaded the CAPRA App and familiarise yourself with how it works. It is part of your mandatory gear for this reason.
Runners' times will be taken from the last Onetime Timing Mat they crossed as this is the last “official” timing location that ITRA and other international organisations will accept.
In the past, we’ve had to revert to our “severe weather course.” This was for flooding and also to allow for much-needed Asset Protection Burns. This happened in 2022 for the BTU60, BTU110 and BTU100Mi. BTU10, BTU20, and BTU30 were unaffected by the course change.
We prefer to re-route the event rather than postpone the event knowing that many runners pay for flights and accommodation and we are also the Australian Final for the Golden Trail National Series.
On the rare occasion that we have to cancel the whole event for that weekend, like during the pandemic, the “backup is to be cancelled weekend” is the October Long Weekend in that same year. This happened in 2020 during the Covid Pandemic.
If you can’t make it to that weekend, you can defer until the following year or on-sell your entry to the postponed or the following year.
There are a few options that can make sure that you are looked after.
The postponement date is the 7th of October if the un-likely postponement is required for the BTU.