03/12/2023
We did it! Twelve laps of the Wild Things HQ Pipeline of Pain and nearly $12,000 raised for Dementia Canterbury!
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For those interested in the stats, Saturday's twelve laps took 17:58:10 and covered 60.9 km and 5,745 m of climbing - that's the same height as Pokalde in the Himalayas or 1.5 times the height of Aoraki Mt Cook. Amazingly, we were only 13 minutes slower than November's eleven laps! I've run 78 laps of the Pipeline of Pain this year - that's 395.7 km and 37,166 m of climbing. I may not do it again for a while....
I'm not sure that it has really sunk in yet - the enormity of what we have achieved. I say "we" because I certainly couldn't have done this without the community of people that have rallied around my mad idea. Back in January, this whole thing was a bit of a pipe dream (pun intended) and I wasn't entirely sure that it was possible. But a bit of stubborn and a whole lot of support, we have totally smashed all of my goals !
Thank you so much to everyone who has helped me on my ! To those who showed up to run a lap (often in the dark or the rain), the folks who donated money to a stranger doing a mad thing, the friends, family and strangers who gave up their weekends to feed me snacks and offer moral support, the dogs that trotted around the hill, the online community who cheered me on from afar, Run Like Tanya for inspiring me to take on the challenge, Julz and the team at Further Faster for being awesome, Fiona and the crew at Team CP for getting me fit enough to pull this thing off, PURE Sports Nutrition for helping with fueling, Dirt Church Radio, The Stag Roar Podcast and Plains FM for helping get the word out, my partner Hamish for his willingness to support the madness and the mad bu**er Ken who joined me for 66 of my 78 laps(!) - thank you! This would not have been possible without you all!
Now I might go and have a nap - I need to rest up before the next mad adventure, whatever that might be.....
