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A few years ago, Richie McCall was part
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of a team that did God Zone, which your
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dad's done five times. You've done
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Heaps, and that was probably when it
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made a crossover into sort of mainstream
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media, I think.
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>> Yeah. So, Richie, oh, he must have done
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Godzone three or four times now. Maybe
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in a 7-day adventure race, you might
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sleep for roughly 8 hours over the whole
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event. So, if you put that into
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perspective, that's roughly an hour to
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two hours a night. You're moving for 22
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hours a day. no matter what
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circumstances. You know, basically you
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navigate with a map and compass for as
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long as you get to the finish line. So,
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you might start in, you know, let's just
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say Oakland and you sometimes don't even
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know your finish line and they give you
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maps and you have to find little
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checkpoints along the way. You have to
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kind of stay within 50 m of each other
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the whole time. You sleep when you want
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to sleep, you eat when you want to eat,
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you carry everything on your back. It's
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it's a very niche sport.
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>> Yeah, it's pretty tough. Like sometimes
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you're walking. For example, I tore my
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ankle 3 days before World Champs a few
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years ago and did 600ks on a torn ankle.
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So you do push yourself beyond what is
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you think is humanly possible.
