Auckland Trail Totara Park 2025 (aka XTerra)
10 August 2025
21.38km, 556m, 1:50:30
Race Day
A brrr cold morning out at Totara Park, with frosty ground but also little wind and beautiful sunshine!
I took Me, Ed, Nev and a late-joining Will out. Juliette was injured and Michal made his own way so that he could do extra miles for his upcoming Sydney marathon!
Michal, Nev and I started together and pretty much ran together for the first few kilometers, with Michal leading and me bringing up the rear. Mr B shot off the front and we never saw him again, as he used his (increasingly amazing) speed to try to keep up with the first woman (Grace), and ending up coming 8th overall!
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| Stay focussed, Nev! |
We 3 kept up a good pace, and by the end of the first lap we were running well with no-one really visible in front or behind us for quite a long time. At about the 8km mark, we descended the steep stairs, and Nev made his move... smashing down the steps at extreme pace and overtaking Michal. I followed Nev past Michal (somewhat more slowly!) but caught up to Nev as we started uphill again and at about the 12km mark I felt him slowing and I eased past him and continued to gap him.
Rather uneventfully I ran strongly and finished about 90 seconds before Nev with a couple of minutes further back to Michal, albeit 6.5 minutes behind Will!
The rest of the Run Like Crazy team did great, helping us keep our precarious first place in the Teams event. My position as second in the 50+ category is secure, although my chances of first place took a nasty gut punch today due to Will's antics at the front of the field!!
Wrap
I broke in my new Tecton X white shoes, which were great. (due to the dry conditions, road shoes would have been ok today). I had no fluid, but one gel before and one during.
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