Last night we stayed in Wellington at Rick’s sister’s house. We went out for Indian and I went home and Rick went out – great for him to have some out and not think about following my butt up the road. We started today at Porirua and I had a running friend for the […]
Check out our pad last night, awesome! Big thanks to Matt at the Mercure Hotel in Picton, Matt hooked us up, sea views and all. Thank you so much bro. We were on the 10:30am departure on the Interisl ander to Wellington which was awesomely sponsored to us by Liz and the team […]
Jup Brown Running NZ – South Isl and Done! from Rick Zwaan on Vimeo. Jup Brown, a 38 yr old plumber from Wanaka, is running over a marathon a day up the length of New Zeal and for 69 days – all in the name of the Stroke Foundation. This is the fifth update from […]
A bit of a late one last night but we were looked after so well. A huge thanks to Anne-Marie. Also a big thanks to some of her friends who donated the money to pay for our hotel – you ladies are awesome, thank you!! We were in at Classic Hits Nelson at 8am […]
Last night we stayed with Graham and Lorienne in Havelock. They took us out to the Mussel Pot for dinner and it was great. Thank you for letting us share your home. xxx Once we did a radio interview with ZB we were in the van and drove out to Canvastown to get running. […]
Huge thanks to Vyvienne and Brain Dunlop here in this photo for not just letting us stay at their house last night but for organising people, homestays, Mayors to visit us, Dinner parties and then lunch for today’s trip. So awesome to have you in our team for this Blenheim trip. Our lunches were […]
Big day today, fun day too. Last night we were donated our room by the East Coast Inn in Ward, they do a great meal there too. We started at 8am and headed off to do our 50km. On the first big hill we hit, the boys were planting new bushes and I jumped […]
Woke up to snow on the hills and it looked amazing. We had heaps of rain last night and as always the sun was out for us to run in, we are so lucky. We stayed with Dawn and Murray Busbridge last night, they were so so nice – hot scones on arrival is […]
Great day yesterday just chillin out. We had our acommodation donated by “The Waves Apartments” right down on the beach, we were living the dream and I loved it just having such a nice place to relax. Thank you so much. Emma from the Kaikoura Star came and met us for a quick interview […]
Jup Brown, a 38 year old plumber from Wanaka, is running over a marathon a day up the length of New Zeal and for 69 days – all in the name of the Stroke Foundation. This is the fourth update from Kaikoura where Jup has just got a cast on his wrist after falling over […]
