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Speaker 1: The Rescue Warriors, a twelve Brave slash Mad lead cycling

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Speaker 1: the length of the country and support of the Canterbury

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Speaker 1: West Coast to Rescue Helicopter Team live the ones on

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Speaker 1: the e bikes. They're making good progress. I think they're

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Speaker 1: around Wannaka now, expected to roll into Bluff on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: So they were going north to south and then south

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Speaker 1: to north. Team Mussel which includes Dave, It includes Mark,

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Speaker 1: Paul and Willie left rink and mate, you've made it.

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Speaker 1: You're in Cape Brahanger.

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Speaker 2: Congratulations, thank you, we made it. Yes, how are the

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Speaker 2: calves oman hosts?

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Speaker 1: Yes are the Calves? Okay?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, fine, yes, no, no, we're we're enjoying a

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Speaker 2: breakfast here at Cooper's Beach. Somebody picked us up from

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Speaker 2: all the way from the top and it's just very

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Speaker 2: strange not to have to buy today.

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Speaker 1: I bet probably feels like muscle memory talk us through

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Speaker 1: the home stretch yesterday, which took you down ninety mile beach.

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Speaker 1: As I understand, you've got to strike the right conditions

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Speaker 1: to polish that off.

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Speaker 2: This is so we had to wait till lunchtime and

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Speaker 2: we got so eager. The local coffee shop was out

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Speaker 2: of water. So they even one of us tried to

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Speaker 2: fix the water problem, but we couldn't so and so

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Speaker 2: we had to go to the next next little town

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Speaker 2: where there was a coffee shop.

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Speaker 3: So we made a.

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Speaker 2: Twenty twenty kilometers detour and really and then back to

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Speaker 2: the beach and.

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Speaker 3: Get the right tied.

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Speaker 2: And it's amazing feeling when you have to suddenly in

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Speaker 2: your back on the beach.

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Speaker 1: So what do you mean by the right tide, because

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Speaker 1: the water has to be out quite far to hit

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Speaker 1: the hard sands where you can.

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Speaker 3: Buy on them.

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Speaker 1: Otherwise it's too soft when you're up toward the.

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Speaker 3: Grass, right, Yeah, that's right, yes, yes, so and it's

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Speaker 3: about seventy dk of biking here the past week.

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Speaker 1: Knowing that you're getting close to that finish line, does

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Speaker 1: that motivate you or was it a bit of a

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Speaker 1: bit of a bit of a test Mentally.

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Speaker 2: It's a it's not a test because you're you're in

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Speaker 2: the in the in the your bike every day, so

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Speaker 2: it's every day is another challenge. And the landscape of

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Speaker 2: New Zealand.

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Speaker 3: Is so beautiful.

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Speaker 2: It's just every day is an experience. So it was

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Speaker 2: never it's it's actually something you don't want to end.

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Speaker 1: Wow, you were on the first ride four years ago.

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Speaker 1: How did this one compare?

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Speaker 2: Just yeah, totally different experience, more steep climbs the other way.

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Speaker 2: This time we had days that we climbed up to

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Speaker 2: twenty seven under this Oh my god, and that never

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Speaker 2: I think the first time, the first time we do

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Speaker 2: was the max was just over two thousands. Yeah, but yeah,

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Speaker 2: it was some days of daunting, you know, and other

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Speaker 2: days it was a beautiful experience every day.

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Speaker 3: Again, do you.

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Speaker 1: Feel like you were better prepared learning your lessons from

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Speaker 1: the first time, And in that case, did you find

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Speaker 1: it easier?

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Speaker 2: It's easier to deal with the issues you're not worried about,

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Speaker 2: things you shouldn't worry about, and things that are not important,

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Speaker 2: you know, like and we carry a lot less gear.

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Speaker 1: Now rocket overpacked on round one and.

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Speaker 2: We still have stuff that I haven't used. Yeah, so

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Speaker 2: it's no, it was. It was a magic experience and

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Speaker 2: things for all the people that supported it's just unbelievable,

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Speaker 2: the gratitude of people towards the whole thing.

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Speaker 1: So I was going to ask that you're very distinctive

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Speaker 1: in your yellow and read uniforms. You've felt the love

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Speaker 1: you've felt, the support.

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Speaker 2: It's everywhere, everywhere. There's heaps of people that slept slipped

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Speaker 2: us money and I put it in the account and

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Speaker 2: and and you know even here up north and you

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Speaker 2: know they have no fun from the canny of West

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Speaker 2: Coast Rescue helicopter, but they still give us money.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Did you wear it through anything like your shoes or

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Speaker 1: you know that the likera that we're talking any any

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Speaker 1: holes that he wearing tear?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know it's starting to my shirt. There's there's

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Speaker 2: there's little things coming out.

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Speaker 1: You're sounding sprightly, mate, Yeah, no.

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Speaker 2: No, we feel really good. We had had a had

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Speaker 2: a good sleeps last night and uh yeah we the

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Speaker 2: last bit to was and it's quite tough. There's quite

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Speaker 2: some steep hills in there. It's a totally different experience

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Speaker 2: and riding into blood and uh we were toasted last night.

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Speaker 1: Were a well earned sleeping and when do.

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Speaker 2: You back this afternoon? So we hope to be back.

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh.

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Speaker 2: And two of the riders that go back to Queenstown

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Speaker 2: to meet up with the other things riding to Bluff Wisdom.

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Speaker 1: No, it's so what theres non care for? Who?

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Speaker 2: David and Mark really.

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Speaker 1: Oh that'll be pretty special though.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yeah.

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Speaker 1: Well, congratulations one heck of a fire, three thousand kilometers

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Speaker 1: all in support of such a wonderful cause. You go

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Speaker 1: and and and and rest up, put your feet up.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully you got all the league room on the on

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Speaker 1: the plane ride home. Will he Liiff rank