Bay Harbour: September 15, 2021

Bay Harbour News Wednesday September 15 2021
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After hearing about a fellow
gym member’s experience of taking
part in the multisport event
and realising she could compete
in tandem, Hone decided to enter
in the 2022 Coast to Coast, persuading
Trevor to enter with her.
“I knew that with Trevor by
my side I could somehow get
through it,” she said.
Lucy and
Trevor are
currently
training with
two bike rides,
three runs and
one kayak a
week, following
a programme
from Team CP
endurance coach Richard Greer.
Complete “newbies,” to the
event, Lucy said they are both
feeling “exhausted and rather
bewildered” with their training
right now.
The Port Hills, Sumner beach
and Avon-Heathcote Estuary are
their training environment.
They had never white water
kayaked before, which was a
“really steep learning curve.”
“I don’t think I’ve ever been as
scared as I was that first weekend
on the white water, but we’ve
practised lots on the estuary and
each week it gets a bit better,” she
said.
Having researched resilience
for more than a decade and now
working as a resilience teacher
with the New Zealand Institute
of Wellbeing and Resilience,
Lucy said she has been looking
at the Coast to Coast challenge
through a psychological lens.
She started her research at the
University of Pennsylvania in
Philadelphia, which in 2009 was
the only place in the world where
she could study the field.
Her own resilience was tested
in the extreme in 2014 when Abi,
her best friend Ella Summerfield
and Ella’s mother Sally Summerfield
were killed instantly after a
Dutch businessman failed to stop
at an intersection and crashed
into their car near Rakaia.
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Physical training a challenge
Abi Hone
RACE BEGINNINGS: The start of the Coast to Coast
multisport race at Kumara Beach on the West Coast.
More than seven years on from
the tragedy, Lucy said, without
a doubt, her work has given
her a mental advantage when
taking on training for the Coast
to Coast, but the physical side
of training is often the bigger
challenge.
“I can overcome the mind
games. I have that self-belief . . .
but I need to put things in place
to overcome the physical side,”
she said.
“I’ve got a very busy start-up
business and my body’s not
feeling as good as it used to.
I’m tired all the time from
training and it’s a juggle to keep
progressing but allow time for
recovery too.”
More than 600 bales of
spring pea straw were sold
over the weekend during the
annual fundraiser organised
by the Ferrymead Lions
Club. As a result, more than
$2000 was raised, which
will be donated to different
causes such as Camp
Quality for children with
cancer at Living Springs,
the Diabetes Foundation
and New Zealand guide
dogs. The next pea straw
sale will be on September
25 at The Princess Margaret
Hospital and on the corner of
Ramahana Rd and Centaurus
Rd.
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