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It's It's definitely, I'd say, New Zealand's, if not the world's, toughest
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adventure race. Um just the the vast just the the New Zealand in itself is hard adventure racing, but Godzone just likes
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to make it that next level. You enter this race and you know that you need to be
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happy in the mountains by yourself with the equipment that you've got. You also
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need the skills to navigate because the navigation navigation is tough. Uh and the rivers, especially, um
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you know, you're pedaling in rivers that are gnarly, basically. So, in New Zealand, you don't have tracks and
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it's going to be awesome because for example, a few years ago I think Estonia came and they're one of
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the best teams in the world and they were like where are the tracks in New Zealand? And we're like I'm sorry, you
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know, we don't have tracks here and that's why when we go overseas, it's
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more of a speed like a It's more of a faster race because you are often biking
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on tracks. But when we go overseas, we're like, "Oh gosh, we have to run on
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a track now." Whereas we used to have to just slog [snorts] up these hills for hours
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and hours and they had to bike, you know, even in this last Godzone, we had to uh
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carry it was 50% biking, 50% walking with So, the bike stages, for example, was 140K's and we'd be
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half biking and half carrying our bikes over a a track that is barely walkable and it
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was horrific. In fact, we had to carry our bikes up this hill called the Equinox Saddle for
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I think around 4 hours and it was like shingle scree, so you would be You've
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got your bike on your um on your shoulders trying to walk up this hill, sliding down and it was Yeah, it
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was tough. Yeah. And you get to the top of it, give each other a fist bump and walk down the other side cuz you
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couldn't bike down it.