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So you have planned your trip, have got your gear sorted and now you are on the way to the finish line which seems so very far away. How do you make sure you get there? When you get tired, wet ,cold, lonely, and sore how do you stop yourself from quitting. Well basically it [...]
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This is the fourth post in a series of five about how to do a charity bike ride (or pogo for that matter). In this post I will cover how to keep your supporters informed and how to keep in touch with the world as you go.
Doing a solo challenge is not only tough physically, [...]
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What to take
The short answer: just enough. This of course is pretty hard to do. The trick is to err on the side of taking too much. You don’t want to be stuck in the middle of nowhere without something imperative to your success, like food, water or a spare inner tube. Here are a [...]
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Planning
Its all in the planning baby. Really. If you plan well then you will succeed. The secret to planning is to eliminate as much risk as possible, but leaving enough risk still there to make it interesting. Planning can be broken down as when to do it, how to do it, and what will you [...]
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I just rode a bike from one end of New Zealand to the other and as I went I raised funds for a small charity, TASC, that does fantastic things for people with spinal injuries. When I started, right back at the very beginning when I came up with the crazy idea to spend 7 [...]
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Being on the home stretch now, things were starting to sink in a little. The fact that the end of my journey was only a few days ride away was both exciting and a little disconcerting. I was so excited to be heading into my home turf and getting closer and closer to [...]
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I have officially made it! I touched the lighthouse at 12:00 and was met by my family eager to gave their husband and dad back. I couldn’t tweet my finish as there is no coverage on any network pretty much north of Hohura. Full blog and video coming soon once I have got home [...]
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After having a week in the wet, cold cold wet, I was hoping the coming few weeks would be dryer and more enjoyable. Being wet on a bike in the cold is just not that much fun. For one, you are pretty much alone out there as every other sane *** is inside [...]
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TV3’s Campbell Live came out today and rode with me a bit and did a piece on my mad mad ride. Here is a link to the story that was on Campbell live tonight. I had great fun riding with the TV3 crew!
http://www.3news.co.nz/Video/CampbellLive/tabid/367/articleID/105444/cat/221/Default.aspx#video
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Having conquered an entire island I was sitting on the ferry to Wellington reflecting on where I have been. I was pretty happy about it all I must say. Considering when I started I wasn’t even sure I would get from Invercargill to the start line in Stewart Island when I first started. [...]
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Who wants to join me and those involved with TASC cross the Harbour Bridge by wheel or foot?
Transit has reneged on it’s promise to open the Harbour Bridge to pedestrians for one day on it’s 50 year anniversary. I had planned to cycle across as part of my NZ long cycle, and I am [...]
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I honestly can’t believe it. I have cycled the length of the South Island on my journey to go from bottom of New Zealand to top solo, and I have done it in just over two weeks. 14 days on the bike to be exact.
Less than a week ago, I had just hit [...]
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I had almost made it to Dunedin and been through a couple of hard days adjusting to life on a bike. Taking a rest day in Mosgiel was essential as my body was sore and mentally I was shot. I was spent and couldn’t believe I had got so far. I was [...]