Video Update – New Plymouth

Jup Brown Running NZ- 6th Update New Plymouth from Rick Zwaan on Vimeo. Jup Brown, a 38yr 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 sixth update from New Plymouth […]

Day 41 – Rest day in New Plymouth

  With the rain falling a bit I set off down town to meet Lisa Tamati. I have read so much about Lisa and her amazing adventures, living life to the full and running some cool adventures all over the world. Was great to meet Lisa and her great friend and super crew member Megan. […]

Day 40 – Pungarehu to New Plymouth

  Today I was running into New Plymouth for the last day of this stretch. It has been a really enjoyable 8 days running, have met some amazing people and my body is loving the running at the mo. So hope it can keep doing it. Just as I was finishing my warm up walk […]

Day 39 – Otakeho to Pungarehu with a half naked Irishman

  This is our angel Pauline of Hawera, she looked after us big time while we were here. Thank you so much for everything. xx Today I had David Ryan from Irel and come running with me. David is living in New Plymouth and yesterday ran 65-70 kms to come meet us then then today […]

Day 38 – Patea to Otakeho

  I woke to a sleepy feeling in my mind, and even with my body sweet let’s go I wasn’t feeling it, but off we went. It was a cloudy day which was nice and I got a couple of little showers just to cool me off.   As you can see I wasn’t smashing […]

Day 37 – Wanganui to Patea

  We stayed at the Gr and Hotel last night and had a drink with Michelle and Hayden our Whanganui angels, Thank you so much.   We stopped in at the Kai Iwi school about 45mins into our run, the kids were out front cheering Go Jup Go as I came in which was amazing, […]

Day 36 – Bulls to Wanganui

  Last night we stayed with Tim, Diane, Taylor and Stacey. Such a beautiful family. I first met them when I was checking the course out before I started running and was welcomed from day 1. Can’t thank you all enough for taking us in and loving us like your own, we are family now […]

Day 35 – Levin to Bulls

  Today was a special day as I was running for the Hiener family. I had an email a couple of days ago from Laura saying that she was sorry to have missed us in Wellington. She then went on to tell me about her family’s stroke experiences. Her sister Maddie had a stroke just […]

Day 34 – Waikanae to Levin

  A couple of shots from yesterday at the Stroke Foundation in Welly and also at RUN THE RED office too. Was a fun day meeting with everyone.   We stayed here at the Raumati S ands Resort near Paraparaumu for 2 nights thanks to Tom and Heather. Awesome resort, we were super lucky and […]

Day 33 – Rest day in Paraparaumu

Has been a while since we left Kaikoura after our last day off and now in the North Isl and it feels super good to chill here. Didn’t have to much planned and it was raining. We had an interview with 2 local newspapers and also one thanks to my old school friend Charlotte from […]

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