WHY?
As a Kiwi lost in the land of OZ, I needed to re unite myself
with the land of the long white cloud, Aotearoa, New Zealand that is. I knew
about the Tour Aotearoa and it intrigued me but at the time it was apparently
full. This was a bit disappointing to find out but I have a little thing that I
tell myself “if you don’t ask you won’t get” so I emailed Jonathan Kennett and
after a carbon Offsetting for my flight to get to the event and a donation to
the New Zealand Kidney Foundation I was in. That was back in June of this year
so much has happened in the meantime which I will detail in the upcoming
posts. Once the event has started with the first wave on the 21st of February 2016, the second wave on the 22nd and the third and final Ave on the 24th ( I'm in this one) you can follow all the riders here http://touraotearoa201516.maprogress.com/
You can also find out more at
http://www.touraotearoa.nz/ or
https://www.facebook.com/groups/touraotearoa2016/
https://www.facebook.com/TourAotearoa/?fref=ts
The reason I started this blog was to document the shenanigans
and obsessing over gear and bike leading up to Tour, the solitude and sense of
adventure during the Tour and the relief of reaching Bluff after 3000kms on the bike. Maybe some of you out there are interested in doing something
like this, maybe just need a laugh or are just really bored and have nothing
else better to do than to read what I have to say. I will be doing my best to post something albeit small every evening after a long day in the saddle.