Day 32 Porirua to Waikanae

  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 […]

Day 31 – Picton to Porirua

  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 […]

Video Update – South Isl and Done!

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 […]

Day 30 – Havelock to Picton = South Isl and Done!!

  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 […]

Day 29 – Canvastown to Nelson

  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. […]

Day 28 Blenheim to Canvastown

  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 […]

Day 27 – Ward to Blenheim

  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 […]

Day 26 – Clarence to Ward

  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 […]

Day 25 Kaikoura to Clarence

  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 […]

Fourth Video Update – Kaikoura

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 […]

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