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Cure Kids Great Adventure Race blog 2012

This April, we're supporting Cure Kids by participating in the Cure Kids Great Adventure Race. Our team will be blogging here about their exploits in training. To support their efforts, make a donation through our fundraising page.

  • Race Day - April 20th

    The only thing we knew about the course was the start location - grid reference 889868 Paparimu school - and we’d only known that for 2 days. Read more...

  • The last training session - Hunuas in the rain

    From the start of our training we said we would train whatever the weather. Surpisingly despite some poor forecasts we had great weather for all our training sessions. Read more...

  • Theta-2-Karekare an outrageous idea.

     

    The BIG training session - a full race simulation with support crew and transitions from bike to run & back. The idea was to travel from work at Theta to  Karekare with as many transitions on the way as possible. Read more...

  • Run, run run - along the gnarly Huia Ridge

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Starting from Karekare again, Alan took us running along the worst tracks in the area that he could find. We climbed from sea level to Te Toiokawharu - the highest point in the Waitakere ranges.  
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  • Mercer bay - ropes and caves

    Another Karekare meetup using the maps from Al's Gladefest rogaining event. We started easy, collecting the controls from the event as we climbed to the spectacular lookout on the AhuAhu ridge. A bit of discussion as to how we would get down to the Mercer Bay as it's not clear on the map - good to see everyone used to looking at the map. Read more...

  • Leap-day trip leaping into pools in Piha

    Dan decided to join us this time. Plan was to spend more time running, so off round the gnarliest tracks above Piha. Winstone, Lucy Cranwell, Margaurite then the big drop down Centennial to black rock dam. Crawl up Forbes then a big blast down Mungaroa ridge. Enough with the running, head up Glen Esk Stream, swim, climb, crawl through the hole; repeat until we get to the waterfall for a photostop. Trudge back up to the car. Dan's exausted - another successful adventure! Read more...

  • Return to Riverhead - The mudmonster!

    This was the ‘Return to Riverhead’ though this was my experience of Riverhead mud having missed the previous visit 2 weeks ago. I was joined by Adventure race team members Julia, Alan & Jon. Unfortunately Paul Casey could not join us as he was in Nelson preparing for the Krusher, a multisport event near Taumarunui which involved a 44km road cycle, 16km run, 23km Kayak followed by a 26km mountain bike ride. Read more...

  • Wild west coast coasteering and streams

    The forecast was crap - and it was bang on. We headed west towards North Piha for the next adventure hoping it would ease nearer the coast - it didn't. We’d plotted Alans grid references on the map – there were a lot of them and some were far apart. Read more...

  • Mountainbike orienteering at Riverhead

    I had always been brought up to believe that girls can do anything, but when you are invited to race in a team with some extra fit guys, well you do have your doubts. My partner, Alan, who organised this crazy idea, had cannily had bought me a new bike in the sales after Christmas. I have progressed from front suspension to now both front & back. I had only ridden it once so far, around the carpark near the bike shop, riding over curbs to test it’s bounce. So now I was testing it for real with ‘the team’. Read more...

  • Waitangi day in the Hunuas

    On the map it looked straightforward and a good opportunity to check out what the Hunua tracks were like. From the campsite at Mangatawhiri there was 5km of biking on 4WD track to Pigotts Camp; drop the bikes then 6km of running along ridges to Kohukohunui the highest point in the Hunuas. Estimated time: half hour for the bike an hour running to the top making it 3 hours round trip, 4 at the outside. Read more...

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