North Canterbury News: February 20, 2020
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AMURI A&P SHOW, MARCH 7<br />
30 <strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong> <strong>News</strong>, <strong>February</strong> <strong>20</strong>, <strong>20</strong><strong>20</strong><br />
Adventurers tell their stories<br />
By DAVID HILL<br />
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Fancy an adventure awayfrom the daily<br />
grind? Adventure sports are set to be a<br />
topic of conversation at the Amuri A&P<br />
Show.<br />
Local multisports athletes and<br />
adventurers willspeak about their<br />
experiences in the CoasttoCoastmultisport<br />
event,the Godzone adventure race,<br />
mountainbiking around the world, and<br />
the Mongol Rally.<br />
Theywill undertake their<br />
presentations in the president’s feature<br />
tentfrom 2pm at the annual showon<br />
Saturday,March 7.<br />
CopresidentTrishMcIntosh says<br />
there will be four presentations of 15<br />
minutes each,which is sure to create<br />
someinterest and discussion among<br />
local sports enthusiasts.<br />
Culverden’s Elise John willbe<br />
speaking abouther experiences of<br />
tackling the twoday individual challenge<br />
in the annual Coast to Coastmultisport<br />
event, in which competitors weave their<br />
way from Kumara Beach on the West<br />
Coast to New Brighton each <strong>February</strong> by<br />
foot, bike and kayak.<br />
Local farmersJames and Belinda<br />
McCone, Duncan Rutherford and Sara<br />
O’Neillwill speak about their<br />
experiences of competing in the<br />
gruelling GodzoneAdventure race.<br />
Godzone is amultiday, nonstop,<br />
expeditionstyleadventure raceheld in<br />
New Zealand each year.Itattracts<br />
competitors from all round the world.<br />
Graham Frith, of Hanmer Springs,has<br />
travelledaround the worldonhis<br />
mountainbike to raise awarenessof, and<br />
funds for, prostate cancer and Canteen.<br />
He will provide an account of his<br />
adventures.<br />
Another local adventurerisAngus<br />
Ormond, of Culverden, who joined the<br />
Gruelling undertaking ... LocalfarmersJames and BelindaMcCone, will be amongthose<br />
speakingabout theirexperiences of competing in the gruellingGodzone Adventure race. PHOTO:FILE<br />
Mongol Rallyin<strong>20</strong>18 withhis team,<br />
dubbed the ‘‘Wakachangi Express’’.<br />
The Mongol Rallyisa16,000km(10,000<br />
mile) epic journeyfrom London across<br />
mountains, desert and steppe on roads<br />
rangingfrom bad to nonexistent in atiny<br />
1000cc car ‘‘bought from ascrap yard for<br />
£4.60’’, according to the MongolRally<br />
website. What could go wrong?<br />
‘‘There’s no backup.There’snoset<br />
route. There’s no guarantee you’ll make<br />
it to the end. It’sjust you, your rolling<br />
turd and aplanetEarthsized bucketof<br />
adventure,’’the website says<br />
Participants are requiredtoraiseat<br />
least £1000 to ‘‘savethe world’’, with £500<br />
pounds(around $NZ900)going to Cool<br />
Earth,which buys back rainforest, and<br />
the balance to the charity of their choice.<br />
The WakachangiExpress supported the<br />
<strong>Canterbury</strong> WestCoastAir Rescue Trust.<br />
Pop along to the president’s feature<br />
tent to hear how these intrepid, local<br />
adventurers boldly went abouttheir<br />
journeys, survived, and camehome to tell<br />
theirstories.<br />
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Global adventure ... The Wakachangi Express team journeys through Iran.<br />
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