March 2021 – Well who would have thought you could find such peaceful serenity so accessibly close to home – it’s perhaps an embarrassment we haven’t been here before! With our trail run friends we discovered the area over the course of a weekend… In the end we didn’t want to leave. A Friday night […]
Pre-Spiel Wew I was lucky to finish this adventure!General chatter about bike adventures in my trail running group and an offer from one of them – Matt who completed the last Tour Aotearoa in 2018 – offering a helping hand with equipment, lead me down the path 6 months out to assume a spot on […]
March 2019 – Ararula-Moogera-Ta-da. A really easy trip onto the edge of the Main Range NP and the secluded bush camp ‘Spicers Gap’ is the ideal place to stay. 2km Above the camp is a fantastic lookout on the ridge line called the Governors Chair. From there is a large loop which is not that […]
Pre-Spiel: There’s something enchanting about epic events that nag at me to do them. I love mountain biking, and the past Kona 24/Flightcente Epic/now-Merida 24 races have vaguely been on my radar for years as ‘that sounds cool’. What isn’t cool is that I’m not a fan of things that require lots of laps (here each […]