Having a good lead at the lunch break is always handy
Forget about Dances with Wolves,
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Last Sunday, the Musselman turned 15 years old and though it's always
flown under the radar, this no-hype, fun event still creates its share of
legends from its attendees.
Arguably the South Island's best
kayaker,great selection and expert advice you can trust on womenssandals. Dan Busch led the
field from the Picton foreshore to Momorangi Bay, setting a new kayak course
record of 41 minutes, six minutes ahead of a pack containing Wayne Jones, Brent
Edwards, Danial Bremner, Craig Jones and Dave Ayre.
The leading women's
paddler was Helen Chittenden in team R&R Sport Ladies. The paddle highlight
was the dolphins that followed them some of the way. Even they couldn't keep up
with Dan.
From Momorangi Bay, it was a 42 kilometre bike ride to Pelorus
Bridge for a lunch stop.
Leading the arrivals into Pelorus Bridge were
Dan Busch's team-mate, Nick Crocker, with a pack of Bremner, Ollie Radford and
Edwards having reduced the six-minutes kayak lead to three minutes. Missing in
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Having a good lead at the lunch break is always handy. But as history
shows, it's a race of two halves and past races have been often won or lost on
the pending mountainbike stage.
The mountainbike leg starts in two
waves, 30 minutes apart, and follows the old stage coach route up the Pelorus
Valley and over the Maungatapu Track into Nelson. It's a tough ride with an
eye-watering descent into the Maitai Valley to the Maitai motor camp.
At
the camp, the competitors swap their mountainbikes for running shoes for the 7km
dash for the finish line at the Verdict Ale House in downtown Nelson.
Teams Triple F and R&R Sport Ladies were first over the track,
having gone in the first wave. Next to arrive was individual Ash Whitehead, who
led the second wave and who had been seven minutes behind at Pelorus.
Edwards arrived almost eight minutes back, with Ayre and Josh Findlay a
further four minutes behind and three minutes ahead of the leading team at
Pelorus, of Busch and Crocker, while Bremner was nowhere to be seen.
Bremner punctured on this route last year, so went tubeless this time,
only to slice a tyre.
Whitehead had made up time on the run, although
first to break the tape was Helen Chittenden of R&R Sport Ladies, having run
down team Triple F.
However a minute later, Whitehead arrived, sealing
his victory and setting a new course record of 4hr 7min 50sec. Edwards was
second from defending champ Ayre in third.
Naomi and Ash Whitehead made
it a family occasion, repeating what race sponsors Trevor and Rachael Voyce had
done in the past by winning both the men's and ladies' event on the same day.
Quickest men's team was Dan and Nick, leaving the rest in their wake and
also setting a new team record of 4hr 16min 3sec for this course. The R&R
Sport Ladies team of Ingrid Richter and Chittenden created a new course record
of 4hr 48min 15sec.