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Speaker 1: The infamous Coast to Coast Adventure race is back from today.

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Speaker 1: Good excuse to welcome back onto the show longtime commentator

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Speaker 1: Brian Ashby. Hello wedding. Hey, so this is pretty big.

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Speaker 1: There's around fifteen hundred athletes, but then overall five thousand

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Speaker 1: people or something when it comes to volunteers and supporters,

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Speaker 1: like it's really granted.

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Speaker 2: Following a yeah, well, you know, like for every athlete

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Speaker 2: that's out there, they have a couple of support crew

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Speaker 2: to get boats down to the river and transition set

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Speaker 2: up bikes and all those sorts of things, and the

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Speaker 2: logistics are sort of transporting yourself from one side of

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Speaker 2: the island to the other. So yeah, there's at least

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Speaker 2: a couple of support crew wherever we competitors, so there's

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Speaker 2: as much as you need. Think it's an exercise in carpaking.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well we're going more and more accustomed to that

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Speaker 1: here in ASHBURTA nice to know that there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of mid Canterbury locals that still tackle this event. We

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Speaker 1: might come back to that. The race covers four hundred

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Speaker 1: and thirty k's from the west to the east usually,

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Speaker 1: although what is it for the sixth time and it's

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Speaker 1: over forty year history. We've had to make a change.

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Speaker 2: There's a week tweak today for the two day race.

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Speaker 2: No word on the one day tomorrow, hopefully no tweak,

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Speaker 2: but today. Normally they'd start with the two k runoff

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Speaker 2: of Beach in the fifty five k cycle to Aikins

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Speaker 2: the transition there. That's carrying on as per normal, but

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Speaker 2: the weather, the rain radar looks appalling, and they made

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Speaker 2: the call late yesterday because the mountain run up and

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Speaker 2: over Go Pass, very narrow valley, a lot of water

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Speaker 2: goes through there, rises very very quickly, and the interest

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Speaker 2: of safety, they decided, no, we're not going to do that.

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Speaker 2: They made the call so traffic management could be put

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Speaker 2: in place. They're going to run up and over Arthur's

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Speaker 2: Pass sort of on the edge of the State highway

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Speaker 2: and then on trails alongside it and finish at Condo

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Speaker 2: Corner as per normal. It's actually normally the run is

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Speaker 2: about thirty k. This is about thirty two. But the

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Speaker 2: feeling is it will be about an hour quicker than

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Speaker 2: the traditional run that everyone wanted to do over Goats Pass,

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Speaker 2: So the day will be over a little bit sooner,

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Speaker 2: but people will be disappointed. It's not what they've trained for.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, right, they want that terrain, they want that challenge

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Speaker 1: to me is worst night mea sort of stuff. So

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Speaker 1: that's where I was gapping Bryan ash We Why do

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Speaker 1: people do this to themselves? What keeps them coming back? Forty?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Look, I mean that's the beauty of it. You

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Speaker 2: challenge yourself. You want to be the best version of yourself.

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Speaker 2: You set a goal, you work to a training program,

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Speaker 2: and you're trying sort of put it all out there

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Speaker 2: on race day. So it's just, you know, everyone's got

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Speaker 2: sort of their little subplots in their lives and things

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Speaker 2: that they get on with, and you know, the to

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Speaker 2: day race is great because you know there's so many

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Speaker 2: teams options within two person, three person teams, individual and

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Speaker 2: then they might step up to the one day you

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Speaker 2: can build you know, your hobby into a little sort

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Speaker 2: of sporting career, graduating up into the different versions of

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Speaker 2: the race, or you might just you know, like teaming

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Speaker 2: up with your friends and getting out for the weekend.

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Speaker 2: One might be a good paddler, another a good bike rider,

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Speaker 2: and someone wants to have a go at the mountain runners.

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Speaker 2: It offers a little bit of something for everyone, but

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Speaker 2: the key thing is just, you know, goal setting and

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Speaker 2: trying to hit those little targets and it's all about

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Speaker 2: achievement and it's just great to see so many weekend

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Speaker 2: warriors out there giving it a crack.

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Speaker 1: The event's drawn some celebrity attention in the past, the

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Speaker 1: likes of former All Black captain Richie McCaw. Any big

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Speaker 1: names this year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, looks there's plenty of them. And we've got like

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Speaker 2: a couple of Olympic gold medal rowers out there. Joe

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Speaker 2: Sullivan and Nathan Cohen are out there. I think Joe's

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Speaker 2: I think Joe's and a team. Nathan's doing the longest

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Speaker 2: day he's done tandem with Richie McCaw previously. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: a couple of Olympic gold medalists out there. We've got

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Speaker 2: a lot of past winners involved in teams this year,

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Speaker 2: people like Sam Clark and karn o'donnella and a team

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Speaker 2: with Paul gar both of them Sam, I think four

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Speaker 2: or five one day wins. Kareen had her first win

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Speaker 2: five or so years ago, come back after having a baby,

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Speaker 2: got people like Joean Kisanowski at Commonwealth Games, silver medalist

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Speaker 2: and Track Cycling's she's out there racing and a team

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Speaker 2: this year around Jim and McCaw is racing in the

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Speaker 2: tandem alongside Shares. Dag and Shares is quite famous for

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Speaker 2: she's one of her arms, she's amputated above the elbow,

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Speaker 2: and she's done Coast to Coast before with you know,

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Speaker 2: set up for the paddle obviously and so on. And

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Speaker 2: she's done Ironman as well. Imagine swimming through Ironman with

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Speaker 2: with essentially one arm. So she's pretty special. Shares and

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Speaker 2: and she'll do the whole course with Jim and McCaw

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Speaker 2: alongside her. Jim has done the mountain run previously, but

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Speaker 2: I think this is her first time doing the full

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Speaker 2: course