Training- Wednesday-25 mile long run, 4,900ft climbing, up to Mount Dun and back.  This long run was enjoyable as it felt good to get back to climbing up mountains.  While it wasn’t that steep, gnarly, or up a very impressive...
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Friday-Sick, no running, 50K Bike Saturday-Sick, no running, 60k Bike Sunday- 7.5 miles around camp and roads. Monday-10 Miles easy in the rain along the ocean and estuaries. Tuesday-5 miles, felt pretty poor with my cold.  60K bike with 790...
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 Maggie’s 30th B-Day Yogurt Monday- 9 Mile easy in Franz Josef.  Ran by tunnel and up river and along river bed.  Had to run without my GPS watch as I left it 25k down the road in Fox.  Someone...
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The Smiths After 142k on the Central Otago Rail Trail, we landed in Alexandra, where Vanessa Smith, who we met on the Routeburn Track, lives.  We were warmly greeted by Vanessa, Simon and their 3 kids, Sophie, Ruby and Max. ...
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We have been traveling the South Island of New Zealand for 8 weeks and have covered about 1,000 miles of paved and gravel roads and over 100 miles of rail trail.  In this post, I will talk about our favorite...
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The summer solstice has just past with the sun up at around 5am and down at 9:30pm.  The warmer weather is here and we are biking in shorts and short sleeve shirts.  We have reached the 1,000 kilometers biked point...
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See my race report for the 2012 Kepler Challenge on Irunfar.com

We have really gotten into our bike touring grove over the last week.  We have made great headway into efficiently packing (we have sent home a few things we didn’t need too), meal planning and shopping, finding “freedom camping”, aka...
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