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Seventy teams from across New Zealand will head to Rotorua this March for the 2021 GODZone event. File photo. It piqued the interest of a group of Waikato farmers and a former Auckland rugby player 18 months ago, and they’ve been training since. Hailing from the Matamata-Piako District, Steve Borkin, Rose Carnachan, Kieran Landley and Ben Meyer say they are “more than ready” after the GODZone’s 2019 challenge was postponed due to Covid-19. “It’s been a long time coming,” Borkin told
Stuff. “We don’t really know what we’ve got ourselves into.” The team s private coach encourages training six days a week, including a 12-hour training session on the weekend.
Top Godzone teams counting down for Rotorua adventure
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Friday, 19 February 2021, 8:48 am
It will be all guns blazing when seventy New Zealand
adventure racing teams line up on the start line for GODZone
Chapter 9 in Rotorua next month.
The multi-day,
nonstop expedition race (4th– 14thMarch 2021) has
attracted some of the world s best racers, including
six-time world adventure racing champions Nathan Fa’avae,
Sophie Hart, Stu Lynch, and Chris Forne of team Avaya and
two time Coast to Coast longest day winner Simone Maier who
is teaming up with All Black legend Richie McCaw, Rob Nichol
and Aaron Prince as team isport.
“We have quite the
lineup of adventure racing royalty in those two teams