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Speaker 1: The God's Own Adventure Race has entered its twelfth edition. Yesterday,

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Speaker 1: thirty two teams set off into the Marlborough Wilderness. One

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Speaker 1: of them is the ash Vegas Battlers, made up of

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Speaker 1: Hines dairy farmer Mark Thomas, feed assessment consultant Rory Bolin,

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Speaker 1: local lawyer Katrina Palmer and captain Tom Wing. How I

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Speaker 1: managed to catch as he was in line waiting to

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Speaker 1: receive their maps yesterday. They've spent the past past four

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Speaker 1: months training for this, so started by asking how exactly

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Speaker 1: do you train for something that is just so unbelievably challenging.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I've just found a biking, mountain biking, trekking and

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Speaker 2: like water sports in regards of pack rafting mainly. So

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Speaker 2: we've been doing three day missions about every three weeks

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Speaker 2: and going out in the hills into some who we've

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Speaker 2: never been before and just sort of finding away using

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Speaker 2: compasses and all the old schools. So there's no digital

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Speaker 2: devices whatsoever allowed on the race, so that makes it

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Speaker 2: pretty pretty unique.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, we'll talk a little more about taking your

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Speaker 1: son with you in a moment. Is Mid Canterbury quite

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Speaker 1: a good training ground?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Absolutely, Now it's especially for getting the legs and

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Speaker 2: arms move and it's been been awesome. So you're just

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Speaker 2: to get up on the hills and then we sort

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Speaker 2: of hit headway at the back. We're know it's been

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Speaker 2: before and time and time as we came up on

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Speaker 2: the mountain. Then where they get lost.

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Speaker 1: Ultimately, So you've conquered Mount Summers a few times.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we've done that probably more than a dozen times.

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Speaker 2: So nothing close to Isburan. So yeah, that's been perfect

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Speaker 2: training ground for us from Asburda.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned some of those disciplines and I'm familiar with

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Speaker 1: most of them, but what is pack rafting?

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Speaker 2: So it's basically an inflatabul up rafts or like a

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Speaker 2: mini dinghy really holds two people. We have to carry

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Speaker 2: that for most of the race. Yeah, thro about five

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Speaker 2: KOs each. I guess with the pedals.

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Speaker 1: And things soup like around the pedals. That must be annoying.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, they'll break down of the four pieces. That's

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Speaker 2: not too bad. But yeah, I see you wait there

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Speaker 2: of course. So yeah, just part of the challenge.

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Speaker 1: What are you taking? What are you allowed to take?

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Speaker 2: Well, we've just got to take whatever we want really

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Speaker 2: just survival stuff live. So it's mainly clothing. Food. We

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Speaker 2: do have transitions that so we can restock, but some

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Speaker 2: will be anywhere between potentially five hours apart, or it

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Speaker 2: could be two to three days apart, so we just

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Speaker 2: need to yeah, preparefully. Typically we peck as light as

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Speaker 2: we can share all the supplies that we don't need

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Speaker 2: to double up on. And yeah, pecks are generally about

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Speaker 2: twenty two kilos each.

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Speaker 1: So do you have those funky we food sachets where

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Speaker 1: you just add water and it turns into a roast

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Speaker 1: lamb meal or something.

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Speaker 2: Yep, that's right, Yeah, the dry meals. So yeah, we've

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Speaker 2: got plenty of those. We've got about I think it's

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Speaker 2: about it's steady for each person.

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Speaker 1: So what's your go to flavor?

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Speaker 2: Well, quite a lot of the lamb lambs, the chenie,

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Speaker 2: so I sort of a lot of the passes.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, get cabs all right? And what about it? I'm

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Speaker 1: thinking back to year eight Camper at pill Forest. The

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Speaker 1: skrogan is the scrog and your best friend for the

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Speaker 1: next week.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, funny enough, we all love. We've got a choplut,

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Speaker 2: so we've got plenty of chocolate that energy and whether

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Speaker 2: it's black for us, chocolate or fruit and that that's

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Speaker 2: sort of all blended in. So yeah, absolutely, what.

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Speaker 1: The safeguards do you have? God forbid? If something goes wrong,

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Speaker 1: you've got you've got no sort of iPad or phone

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Speaker 1: with you? How do you stay in touch?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so ultimately we've got two safety devices. Myself, I've

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Speaker 2: got a PLB Personal Located Beacon, so west cast scenario,

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Speaker 2: we'll some we get shirt we can then we'll go

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Speaker 2: straight to the Ministry services and someone will get a

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Speaker 2: trop out in the WHISTPEC. But also they give us

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Speaker 2: the organized give us what they call a yellow brick,

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Speaker 2: which is it can message on and also do the

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Speaker 2: same thing, and that's a tracker for them to know

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Speaker 2: exactly where we are, what we're up to, and if

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Speaker 2: conditions changed, I'll send a semesters and say, hey, alternative plan.

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Speaker 1: Basically do you expect to finish?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Absolutely well, you like we're real I's stick like

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Speaker 2: we're not out to one which isn't No, that's certain

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Speaker 2: that the state Unfortunately, the states aren't very good for completion.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, like we would just love to furnish it.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't matter if if it takes eight the full

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Speaker 2: weight days, if we furnish it with.

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Speaker 1: Be stoked you only had eight days.

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Speaker 2: Eight days, Yes, it's Friday. Next week is cutoffs. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: so slow and steadies our own.

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Speaker 1: Have you had a look at the weather forecasts.

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Speaker 2: You know, today's it's sort of packed it in a

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Speaker 2: but unfortunately the rains nor rain is due but to

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Speaker 2: Wednesday next week it's you're looking okay, you.

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Speaker 1: Got plenty of socks, nothing some wet feet, Oh no.

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Speaker 2: I think the Proumers we'll have plenty, plenty of week

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Speaker 2: feat for the next week. But that's part of the game.

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Speaker 1: See. Lighter to carry would be the sandwich, bad eggs,

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Speaker 1: shoe liners.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that would be good.

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Speaker 1: And band aids for the blisters.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, any of those. We'll probably about fifteen pack to

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Speaker 2: those that the transitions and so you know it's the

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Speaker 2: old feet will be will be given a lot of grief, imagine,

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Speaker 2: but we'll here we go.

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Speaker 1: Have you spotted many other mid Candley locals.

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Speaker 2: No, there's there's a there's a couple here that I know.

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Speaker 2: I haven't seen him yet, but yeah, yeah, well will

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Speaker 2: we will? We seeing them on the Buddy journey, I'm sure. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And what about just quickly famous people I know that

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Speaker 1: Richie McCaw for many years was a staple of the

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Speaker 1: God Zone.

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Speaker 2: Is he back, Yes, yes, so he's he's like one

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Speaker 2: of the organizers slash invested figures here. So he's actually

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Speaker 2: just arrived recently. So yeah, here will be there for

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Speaker 2: the briefing which that kicks off. Three.

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Speaker 1: Surely it's cheating when he brings his helicopter.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, I know, Yeah, it's Yeah, it's a

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Speaker 2: shame he's racing year. But alexas as one least person

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Speaker 2: to competicate.

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Speaker 1: What sort of field do they have?

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Speaker 2: Ah, there's about thirty two teams of four people, so yes,

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Speaker 2: it's not Sorry, great people, but I guess there's not

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Speaker 2: many crazy people around. I guess as I thought of

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Speaker 2: that one.

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Speaker 1: My gosh, look, one heck of a challenge ahead. But

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Speaker 1: it's going to be an absolute bucket list experience. The

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Speaker 1: sites that you're going to see will just be mind blowing,

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Speaker 1: no doubt. So wishing you all the very best and

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Speaker 1: I look forward to hearing all about it when you

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Speaker 1: get to that finish line.

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Speaker 2: Mate. Awesome note, thanks very much, Loke