Today I woke early as always but lay around a bit, then left Rick to sleep for both of us. Our hotel The Sebel is right on the waterfront so I had a beautiful breaky with a great view. After that I was off to do the chores of washing the clothes and then the […]
We were sorted out last night by the Rotorua Citizens Club, they gave us a room and fed us, they heard our interview with Mike Baird from More FM and rang in to help us. Big thanks to Dick Hyl and for that. We were a bit late getting started but had S andy […]
Back when I drove the course in reverse I stopped in here to Waiotapu Taven and had met Peter. He emailed me straight away and they donated us our accom and dinners which was just awesome. Thankyou so much Peter We were lucky again today and Eddy from More Fm Rotorua came down and […]
I had an email from Mark McArthur yesterday and after ringing him and having a chat I was just blown away by his power and want to do something awesome. Mark had a stroke and is slowly working his way back and has been setting goals to do things that he used to do […]
What a fun day today, I had Shel don again with me for another 48kms. He ran 98km with me over the last 2 days, great effort bro, and then the blackout man my cuz Mason. Mason wore this black suit for 30km, it was so funny watching the cars check him out. Great […]
Last night we stayed at Settlers Motel in Turangi which was most kindly donated from Helen and Wayne. They were great and had the spa waiting for us as well. Thank you so much. I had been in touch with Shel don who is from Napier, he had emailed and said he wanted to […]
We started the day as always with my walk to warm up and I wasn’t feeling it straight up so walked 5 mins longer. The weather hasn’t been great the last few days but when the sun popped out we were getting such amazing views, clouds and the shine on the bush is something […]
We stayed last night in Ohura at the old Ohura State Prison which is now a guest house. I had run 16km short of Ohura yesterday so we started back out there this morning. I had finished at the top of a hill, so the first 16km were mostly downhill which was great. […]
Sorry for the late one, we were out in the bush yesterday and there was no coverage. We stayed the night before at the beautiful “Castle”. Just before Uruti heading north of New Plymouth and right on the beach side near Whitecliffs. An amazing old place with lots of character. Our super hosts Ian […]
Woke up and heard the rain falling, thought oh well maybe we will have our first full day of rain, gotta happen some time. Got a photo of the Bublitz family, Sally, Dave, Izzy and Matilda. Also me and Smithzzz jumped in for the shot. Thank you so much for flying up Smithzz to […]
