1 00:00:02,880 --> 00:00:05,760 Speaker 1: The twelfth edition of the God's Own Adventure race has 2 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:08,920 Speaker 1: wrapped up thirty two teams battling their way through the 3 00:00:08,920 --> 00:00:13,319 Speaker 1: Marlborough Wilderness, covering distances of five hundred to six hundred k's. 4 00:00:14,200 --> 00:00:16,480 Speaker 1: One of them was waving the flag from mid Canterbury. 5 00:00:16,560 --> 00:00:20,160 Speaker 1: The ash Vegas Battlers made up of Heinz Farmer, Mark Thomas, 6 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:24,239 Speaker 1: Feed assessment consultant Rory Bolin, local lawyer Katrina Palmer and 7 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:29,400 Speaker 1: Captain Tom Wang. Hello, he good mate. First chairs for 8 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:31,320 Speaker 1: being with us. I kind of assumed that you might 9 00:00:31,360 --> 00:00:33,960 Speaker 1: have gone into a hibernation mode a week of sleep. 10 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:38,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, it would be pretty nice, but unfortunately bactiality today. 11 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:42,440 Speaker 2: So yeah, getting the kundary for let's go at. 12 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:45,760 Speaker 1: The moment jeesh, no rest for the battler's. So for 13 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:48,440 Speaker 1: you guys, it was roughly five hundred and thirty k's. 14 00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:49,360 Speaker 1: How long did it take? 15 00:00:50,440 --> 00:00:53,680 Speaker 2: I'm totally just sure about seven days, So yeah, I 16 00:00:53,760 --> 00:00:57,240 Speaker 2: saw on a go for seven days. So it's pretty 17 00:00:57,240 --> 00:00:57,560 Speaker 2: full on. 18 00:00:58,120 --> 00:01:02,560 Speaker 1: Big climbs, long pushes, you classic one map for opinions moments. 19 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:04,360 Speaker 1: What proved to be the toughest part. 20 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:07,240 Speaker 2: Oh, to be honest, there's a lot of a lot 21 00:01:07,240 --> 00:01:10,200 Speaker 2: of tough, tough moments, probably just about every day. But yeah, 22 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:12,479 Speaker 2: after the first day, we're sort of in the mountain 23 00:01:12,520 --> 00:01:15,880 Speaker 2: bike and one of our bikes lost front end back break, 24 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:20,240 Speaker 2: so they made it that made it pretty interesting, yeah, 25 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:23,480 Speaker 2: pretty much. So yeah, so we're trying to hold on 26 00:01:23,560 --> 00:01:26,600 Speaker 2: to that bike and then there's a crash, crash involved 27 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:29,480 Speaker 2: with that and there was Yeah it's great, but no, 28 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:33,440 Speaker 2: there's no broken broken limbs fortunately, But yeah, that was 29 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:36,440 Speaker 2: made for a pretty exciting first twenty three hours, that's 30 00:01:36,440 --> 00:01:36,800 Speaker 2: for sure. 31 00:01:36,959 --> 00:01:40,759 Speaker 1: It would have any other unexpected surprises, Oh not really. 32 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:43,720 Speaker 2: We're sort of sort of yeah, well even just talk 33 00:01:43,800 --> 00:01:47,920 Speaker 2: a lot longer than we then we anticipated. But yeah, 34 00:01:47,960 --> 00:01:50,560 Speaker 2: the height, yeah, it was pretty pretty hot then Marlborough 35 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:53,000 Speaker 2: not much water around, and it took us to be 36 00:01:53,080 --> 00:01:56,000 Speaker 2: another twenty hours longer than we than we thought, so 37 00:01:56,800 --> 00:01:58,800 Speaker 2: two days. So yeah, it's running on. 38 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:01,440 Speaker 1: Next to those sleep what what what would have been 39 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:02,559 Speaker 1: the longest. 40 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:06,080 Speaker 2: Night, Well soon it's that we went through to nine 41 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:07,480 Speaker 2: o'clock in the morning, so there was sort of a 42 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:10,119 Speaker 2: good twenty four hour, twenty eight hour stunt and then 43 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:13,600 Speaker 2: and then we took it. It's probably about three sleep 44 00:02:13,639 --> 00:02:16,320 Speaker 2: most nights yeah, so we sort of going through about 45 00:02:16,320 --> 00:02:18,839 Speaker 2: four in the morning, three in the morning and yeah, 46 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:20,880 Speaker 2: and then wake up the next morning and a couple 47 00:02:20,919 --> 00:02:22,200 Speaker 2: years later and get into it again. 48 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:24,840 Speaker 1: I heard the weather packed and pretty bad on was 49 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:26,240 Speaker 1: it day four? Tell us about that? 50 00:02:26,960 --> 00:02:30,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, so were we were actually pat rafting in the 51 00:02:30,040 --> 00:02:33,040 Speaker 2: sea at the time, and pet your rafts aren't really 52 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:34,880 Speaker 2: made for the sea and they're pretty light, and yeah, 53 00:02:34,880 --> 00:02:37,639 Speaker 2: we're fighting the wind and they're tied and it started 54 00:02:37,639 --> 00:02:40,280 Speaker 2: pouring us rain and yeah, there's a shoe sort of 55 00:02:40,320 --> 00:02:45,760 Speaker 2: hop semic bodies around but yeah, yeah, so we uh yeah, 56 00:02:45,840 --> 00:02:48,919 Speaker 2: got through that, and yeah there was Yeah, pretty pretty 57 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:50,959 Speaker 2: hard going when you're cold and and you sort of 58 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:53,359 Speaker 2: day four, day five into the race, it's pretty hard 59 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:53,840 Speaker 2: on the body. 60 00:02:54,680 --> 00:02:57,680 Speaker 1: I bet you would have seen some sights though. Was 61 00:02:57,680 --> 00:03:00,160 Speaker 1: there something in particular that just blew you away? 62 00:03:00,760 --> 00:03:03,640 Speaker 2: Oh? Probably just a senior in general general, to be fair, like, 63 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:05,680 Speaker 2: you know, we're still going across a lot a lot 64 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:08,160 Speaker 2: of private farmiland and then you know, we'll go down 65 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:09,960 Speaker 2: the Waira River in the pet draft, which I think 66 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:12,400 Speaker 2: was about eighty five k's in the in the raft 67 00:03:12,440 --> 00:03:15,840 Speaker 2: and needless sort of climb up over the rich Richard 68 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:19,720 Speaker 2: Richmond Mountain Range and then into the sea, so you know, 69 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:24,440 Speaker 2: it's an absolutely amazing place. But yeah, unfortunately there wasn't 70 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:26,640 Speaker 2: many too much sight seeing going. 71 00:03:26,440 --> 00:03:30,959 Speaker 1: On, just focusing on the task at hand. Well, there's 72 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:33,880 Speaker 1: a very high chance that you don't make it, but 73 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:37,240 Speaker 1: you guys did cross that finish line. Was that just 74 00:03:37,320 --> 00:03:38,240 Speaker 1: the best feeling? 75 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:41,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, it was. She was that last pederal league and 76 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:45,200 Speaker 2: the pick them was pretty pretty exciting. So I'm seeing 77 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:47,440 Speaker 2: all the people there in the finished line and going yeah, hey, 78 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:50,720 Speaker 2: we've actually we've actually done it. So yeah, so now 79 00:03:50,760 --> 00:03:53,480 Speaker 2: it's pretty pretty big jabingh. It's pretty happy and yeah, 80 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:55,160 Speaker 2: we're pretty excited to be there. 81 00:03:55,240 --> 00:03:56,080 Speaker 1: Would you do it again? 82 00:03:57,000 --> 00:03:59,320 Speaker 2: Yeah? Well funny enough, I think there might be the 83 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:04,440 Speaker 2: consensus to be fear so yeah, yeah made made yep, 84 00:04:04,600 --> 00:04:08,640 Speaker 2: so yeah, but another stage that you could be a goer. 85 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:13,560 Speaker 1: Oh, very cool to have you reaping mid Canterbury. We're 86 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:15,760 Speaker 1: so proud of you and I hope you are too. 87 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:16,839 Speaker 1: Captain Tom Wing. 88 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:19,000 Speaker 2: Absolutely, no, definitely