Wiki Factory Racing

In the past whenever there has been a rogaine held around Christchurch I have always been busy, so it was a nice change to be available for the rogaine held today at Victoria Park by the Peninsula and Plains Orienteering Club. The 3 hour course was part of the Canterbury Secondary School Champs event, with there being an open category for anyone else who wished to participate. Although you were meant to be in teams of at least 2 people, I decided to compete solo as it would be better for my own navigation practise. The course was effectively 2 big loops, with one loop focused around Victoria Park and the valley, and the second loop based around the Huntsbury valley and track. I decided before the event started to combine the two separate loops into one large loop while nominally skipping a few check points. This plan soon changed once the event started though as it became apparent that my idea was becoming more like a case of follow the leader as there were several other people with ...

It has been an exciting few weeks around here with entries submitted for the Speight's Coast to Coast and also GODZone, New Zealand's leading multiday adventure race. Due to my usual busy schedule over summer with guiding down the Waimak for Topsport Kayaking, and the fact that I haven't raced in a multisport event for over a year, I have entered Coast in a team for 2015 with Timur Kibar. With the combination of my cycling and kayaking ability/knowledge of the course, and his running and cycling ability, we are hoping to do quite well overall. Just 2 weeks after Coast, I will then be down in Wanaka for GODZone 2015. After wanting to do this event since the first chapter in 2012, the opportunity to race in 2015 was too hard to refuse. My team mates, Alastair McDowell, Ben Gibson and Isla Smith have all competed in this race before, and despite our young age, I believe we have the skills between us to be competitive at chapter 4 of GODZone. With the training sess...