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September 19, 2014
Olympic Medallist Barry Magee visits Theta
What better way to inspire staff to part with their lunch money than to invite an Olympic legend to visit the Theta office. It was a real honour for us to play host to Barry Magee and his numerous medals and trophies. He accepted our invitation and gave his time freely so that we could use the occasion to raise more funds for Cure Kids. His “Zero to Hero” talk was inspirational and much appreciated by the Theta crowd.
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May 3, 2014
2014 - The Race Day Report
Start location for our third CureKids Great Adventure Race was Tapapakanga regional park on the Firth of Thames. The start location is only known 3 day before the race and the course itself released half an hour before the race as a series of grid references. This is the most stressful part of the race, plotting the course accurately onto a map before the start gun goes.
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March 26, 2014
Counting down to race day – late March Cure Kids fundraising & training
Every week Alan Moore sets up a course involving some sort of run and/or bike often with a river crash, so we learn to get through anything thrown our way in this year’s Cure Kids adventure race. On Friday 4 April 2014, we will be running and mountain biking in a race with a dose or orienteering thrown in. So we do have to get some training in, and yes, the map reading it does test our old eyes and brains as well, but now most of all, we are all full-on completing the fundraising part for ‘the kids’. Dave Mason, trained with us last year, and has taken on the task of facilitating the internal auction bids and encouraging some adventurous fundraising action.
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March 24, 2014
Training afternoon - Open to anyone
It was with a little trepidation over my ability to keep up with the super fit adventure racers that I agreed to participate on a training afternoon. I have previously watched first hand with awe and wonder the physical abuse the team put their bodies through on race day. The level of endurance is incredible so my angst was somewhat justified. Regardless I convinced myself that the hours in the gym would help to get me through and off to the wild West Coast I went.
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March 16, 2014
Cannibal Creek
Tuesday again, this time we met at the car park at North Piha and we had another beautiful hot summer's day.
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March 9, 2014
Hunua – March 9th 2014
We know the Curekids Great Adventure Race will be in the Hunua’s somewhere, but will only find the start location in the week of the race. We decided to have a training session out in the Hunuas to check out some tracks and get Jason familiar with the terrain.
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January 29, 2014
Piha Gap – January 28th 2014
After a layoff for Christmas and January it was great to be training again. Alan, Jason, Paul, Jon & Tony met on Piha road for some track running, beach exploring and stream bashing. First up was a long gnarly rooty descent into the back of Piha. A great start for everyone except Tony who found out that the regular training sessions are at a different pace to the pre-Xmas open sessions!
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December 4, 2013
November 5th - The first training (a non runner perspective)
Well - that was something. On November the 5th 2013 our 15+ (that's not the age but count - just to be clear) group took off from work at noon and headed over to the Waitakere Ranges - down to Karekare beach area.
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October 24, 2013
First Waitakere training session for the Cure Kids Adventure Race of 2014.
First Waitakere training session has been now scheduled for the 5th of November.