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The GODZONE buzz returns to Fiordland this month

First Aussie GZ entices global competitors

Vodafone's new brand One New Zealand takes title

GZ heads to Aussie

The rewards keep coming

Premier apparel partnership

A World First for GODZONE

Fiordland welcomes back GODZONE

In all its glory!

A chat with Nathan

Well done!

Here come those final teams

They keep coming home

Whoop for these legends!

When the adrenaline kicks in!

When the tough get going!

Take that!

They be running

Slash and burn in Pursuit event

What a performance!

Put your hands up!

Pop those bubbles

Traversing coast to coast

No worries mate we have this covered

Central Otago was the focus today

Team Avaya churning through stages 7 & 8

Simone Maier says team are sticking together

Epic back country ride through heritage sites

Staying power & getting back into it

Epic high country experience for teams today

Eyre Mountains playground not all play

Featuring Race Director Warren Bates & Ritchie

BTS with Warren and Adam

Maps, headlamps, huts and night moves

Stage 3 will go down in GZ history

Around Lake Wakatipu

Racing 24 / 7

Everywhere you look another amazing landscape

Not your everyday walk in the park

Tough day at the office

She's big country out on stage 3

How to tame the GODZone course on day three

Day three moves

Day two wrap at GODZone

All the way up and all the way down

Where are the teams?

Making it to the GZ start-line is half the battle

No turning back now for Chapter 10

And the Pursuits are off!

Where exactly will teams be heading on Chapter 10

Teams register and feel the GZ vibe

710km of adventure kicking off tomorrow

GODZone Race Patron addresses teams

Top teams ready to challenge Avaya

Former NZ All Black Champion is back at GZ

Intrepid Coast to Coast traverse to mark 10 years

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

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

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

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

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 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

The weather has turned, the sun is out and the last team – Unfinished Addiction (37) – at the back of the field, is slowly moving forward! Day eight of GODZone has a super positive vibe wherever you are on course. The finish line is humming, the music is playing and the Cargo brews and

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

Day seven at GODZone and teams at the back of the field are taking the brunt of Chapter 9. With cold, wet weather socking in over the Kaimanawa ranges its been a very long 24 – 48 hours for some who are struggling to make and find their way across the 88km trek and down

Former All Black Captain Richie McCaw has leveled up his performance at GODZone today to take out a second-place alongside his isport teammates, Coast to Coast champions Dougal Allan and Simone Maier, along with Theo Wordsworth. “I have to say it’s nice to get to the finish line – I was concerned that during that

Event Director Warren Bates Wraps Day Six

Nathan Fa’avae, Chris Forne, Sophie Hart, and Stu Lynch of team Avaya clocked up their fifth win of the world’s largest expedition adventure race this morning when they pedalled across the GODZone finish line. The foursome arrived at Waipa Hub in the Redwoods forest south of Rotorua at am, after five days of adventure

Team Avaya is heading for the Redwoods and not too far from the GODZone Chapter 9 finish with some world-class MTB trails in the iconic forest; a fitting way to finish off GODZone Chapter 9. The team has been all action since starting the race nearly five days ago, and while it may come as

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

The pain & the

RE: from high to low

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

RE; back country rapids and race strategy

RE: Listen to Richard Anderson talk strategy

RE: from the Mohaka River to the mountain tops

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

RE: push and pull

RE: food for racers

RE; he is one tough cookie

RE: Rogaine pain

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

RE: the adventure's getting real

For all those dot watching junkies out

RE: what he really thinks

RE; setting the pace

A fun, fast day to kick things

Some showmanship from the top teams

Where are teams

Thats a rego wrap

RE: Richie ready to rumble

Welcome everyone to GODZone Chapter 9 in Rotorua. All competitors please see below an official welcome to the region from Rotorua Mayor Stevie Chadwick, the competitor briefing with Race Director Adam Fairmaid, the safety briefing with Wayne Allen, a general briefing with competitor liaison Keren McSkimming and a GODZone race patron Steve Gurney. Mayor Stevie

RE: The latest news

Almost time for another Chapter. North Island awaits.

Who will be the placegetters at Chapter 9

It's gonna be an epic in Rotorua

Richie McCaw announces he's Chapter 9

How long do you think the Chapter 9 course is?

NZ's iconic adventure race pivots to new format