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GODZone Chapter Five sees 61 Pure and ten Pursuit teams heading into the Nelson/Tasman area for seven days of adventure racing. Among them are people from as far afield as the UK, Japan and South Korea, as well as competitors from NZ. Of the 61 Pure teams taking part, 34 are made up of purely New Zealanders, 15 are purely international and 12 are mixed teams.

International competitors have travelled from Australia, Japan, South Korea, Sweden, Denmark, the UK, Ireland, America and Canada to take part.

Most of the Pursuit competitors hail from New Zealand; the two exceptions, from America and Australia, both live in NZ.

All teams in the Pure event have to include at least one female. This year three teams have gone one further and are entering all-female teams.

Mar

7th

21:03

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

Mar

6th

22:03

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