If you recognise Gemma's face that's because you will have seen her around the Motatapu as previous Race Director for many years. Over 15 years ago Gemma was thrown in the deep end in with sports event management and absolutely loved it, that event just happened to be the inaugural Motatapu in 2005. Gemma went on to spend 10 years working on Motatapu in various capacities, event coordinator, event manager, volunteer, race director, so you could say the race is in her blood. Gemma has a breadth of knowledge and passion for the event and is proud to be back at the helm as an owner and race director. In her break from Motatapu, Gemma was involved with Challenge Wanaka, Queenstown Winter Festival, NZ Rural Games, Queenstown Marathon and continues to be involved with Winter Games NZ and Kathmandu Coast to Coast.