Cambridge Calamity 18 hour adventure race

Had a great weekend last weekend. Did an 18 hour Adventure Race with Erin, Anne and Marquita. We started with a kayak rogaine on Lake Karapiro which included a portage up and over a steep dirt bank. Stunning scenery on the lake and lots of checkpoints to keep our minds occupied. We then portaged down the dam to the Waikato river and negotiated some grade 2 ripples down to the event centre. It was quite exhilarating. We were then off on our bikes for a ride of over 100 km up hill and down dale thruogh farmland and bush with a couple of walks thrown in for good measure. One of the walks was a 3 hour orienteering course through open native bush. Spectacular. We finshed the orienteering in the dark and then had a thrilling decent back into Cambridge in the rain. :) The next leg was a 2 hour Urban Rogaine which we heading out to do after scoffing a few pieces of pizza supplied by our efficient support crew person Rob. Whilst doing the Urban rogaine in the drizzle we discussed the benefits of the next two legs. One was a night kayak which we worked out would not be worth doing as it would have taken longer to do than the bonus points we would have gained. The other was a 3-5 hour mountain bike leg that we decided we would do. After completing the Urban Rogaine we headed back to race headquarters only to find that the teams ahead of us had pulled out and were eating pizza and drinking beer. Unable to stop at that point we decided to head out in the rain and get one checkpoint on the ride before heading back to join the other teams. What a great course and an awesome training session. Thaks a million to Aiden who set the course.

Hillary Trail Run

In order to celebrate the opening of the great Hillary Trail, Sarah Hillary and the Girls on Top running group decided to run the entire track in one day. Three teams set off at different times from different locations and as a group we knocked the Hillary Trail off in its entirety - The hares ran from Arataki to Piha, the slow bunnies ran from Muriwai to Piha and the turtles walked from KareKare to Piha. What an amazing trail the Hillary Trail is the scenery is spectacular. If you get a chance do it!

GOT Training blog

Anne and I had an awesome run on the Hillary trail from Muriwai to Piha on Saturday. We needed to do it to test the trail before running it with Sarah Hillary on the official opening day of the trail. It took us five and a half hours at a jog tramp pace. The scenery was simply delicious. What a great way to spend a day.