The Rotorua Ekiden is a fun team relay run
or walk around beautiful Lake Rotorua.

Rotorua Ekiden welcomes people of all fitness levels and abilities to sign up for this marathon distance event. Rotorua Ekiden is broken down into six achievable legs for your team, ranging from 3.24km to 9.27km. Get your friends and workmates together and register for the 16th anniversary of Rotorua’s most fun dress-up team relay event because you’re gonna love it.

Due to the ongoing impacts of COVID-19, the Rotorua Ekiden Relay will not take place on the scheduled date of Saturday 17 October 2020.  We are currently working through options for re-scheduling the event to a future date during the summer of 2021. We will affirm details as soon as possible.

We will provide further updates on the status of the event when are in a position to do so.