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