One NZ GODZONE heads to Marlborough
PRESS RELEASE From: Pure Adventure Charitable Trust, Wānaka, New Zealand For Immediate Release Thursday, February 27, 2025 ONE NEW ZEALAND GODZONE ‘READY TO RACE’ IN MARLBOROUGH THIS NOVEMBER 2025 Pure Adventure Charitable Trust is pleased to announce that One New Zealand GODZONE Chapter 12 will return to the adventure racing calendar this year, hosted in Marlborough
ONE NEW ZEALAND GODZONE MAKES TRIUMPHANT RETURN
PRESS RELEASE From: Pure Adventure Charitable Trust, Wānaka, New Zealand For immediate release 7pm Monday 3 Feb 2025 ICONIC ONE NEW ZEALAND GODZONE TO MAKE TRIUMPHANT RETURN TO NEW ZEALAND’S ADVENTURE RACING SCENE A new adventure racing charitable trust led by high-profile sportsperson Richie McCaw announces the return of One NZ GODZONE, the world’s largest
Chapter 10 Sells Out in Record Time
NEWS UPDATE From: 100% Pure Racing, Queenstown, New Zealand For Immediate Release Thursday 1st July 2021 CHAPTER 10 OF GODZONE SELLS OUT IN RECORD TIME GODZone has cemented its position as the world’s largest expedition adventure race by selling out in record breaking time today. Entries to Chapter 10 of GODZone opened at 9am
GODZone Opens Entries Tomorrow at 9am
NEWS UPDATE From: 100% Pure Racing, Queenstown, New Zealand For Immediate Release Tuesday 30th June 2021 NEW ZEALAND’S PREMIERE ADVENTURE RACE TO OPEN ENTRIES TOMORROW Entries to Chapter 10 of GODZone open at 9am (NZT) tomorrow, with domestic and international teams lining up for a racing spot at the tenth anniversary of the prestigious adventure
Chapter 10 is going Coast to Coast
NEWS UPDATE From: 100% Pure Racing, Queenstown, New Zealand For Immediate Release Tuesday 1 June 2021 GODZONE CELEBRATES 10 YEARS WITH RETURN TO THE SOUTH ISLAND The South Island of New Zealand will play host to GODZone, the world’s largest expedition adventure race next year. The epic event is set to return, once again, to the
Vet, farmer and athlete
Country Wide Magazine – April 2021 Taihape vet, farmer and family man Anthony Oswald finds adventure racing takes his mind off the everyday as well as being good fun. Annabelle Latz tracked him down to find out more. Multi day adventure racing means entirely removing yourself from society. Your entire focus is about getting to
Meet Martin, the GODZone trophy guy
He loves New Zealand so much, so bugger it, he’ll draw it. Meet Martin Rogers, you’ll probably be more familiar with his work than you realise, as he’s the man you can thank for the stunning logs of wood we call the GODZone trophies. It all started way back in 2012, just before Chapter 1
The Stuff Legends Are Made Of
The Legends Trophy went to Team Swazi (19) for GODZone Chapter 9 Rotorua. For each GODZone this Trophy is awarded by the race organisers to the team that, in the twilight of their sporting careers, show how it should be done. The Legends Trophy is open to both race categories. And true legends, as the
Pushing through the puddles
Where’s Warren? Buying gumboots. Well, that’s fair. It was late afternoon of Day 7, down on the finish line at Waipa Hub. It was wet, very wet. Puddles everywhere. The rain falls hard and fast in Rotorua, all of a sudden. And then it’s gone. And then it comes back again. The rain in Rotorua is not
Tides of emotions
Emerald pool after emerald pool, trout, deer, and changing weather patterns. A scope out high over the Kaweka and Kaimanawa Ranges this morning brought into context just the magnificence of the area these GODZone Chapter 9 teams are gracing. Race Director Adam Fairmaid said it was interesting to see how spread out all the teams
All about feet and pace
GODZone Chapter 9 is not easing up, and neither is the pace nor the anticipation. In a ‘normal’ sport, one would say you could safely bet your bottom dollar that Avaya (56) will reach Waipa Hub in the Redwoods first, most probably on Wednesday morning. But as Race Director Adam Fairmaid says, adventure racing is
A sure shuffle for those chasing the leaders
Behind the current podium potentials there’s a few shifts going on. It looks like Ataraxia MACPAC (01) and Racer’s Edge – Powered by Torpedo 7 (21) are spending Monday evening and night taking turns in the fourth and fifth spots over the Te Iringa Track and Mohaka River. Both teams are very well respected by
You just have to believe
It’s at this stage of the race that doubt starts to creep in for some teams, as to whether they will make the cut off or not. Day Two has just about come to an end, with the top half of the field on the Stage 4 rogaine which takes them through the Whirinaki State
Lead teams sorting it out already
In true New Zealand style, the epic nature of the world’s biggest adventure race, GODZone, was heightened by an earthquake that decided to jump on in and shake things up. At 2.27am this morning a 7.1 magnitude earthquake, one of three in fact, hit 100 kilometres east of Te Araroa in the North Island. Even
