Article by Natalie Gallant
I’ll come back to the beautiful Timber Trail in a jiffy. What I didn’t mention in my last blog (and I didn’t mention much to be honest - so be prepared this might be a long’un) was that yet again the postman had left me in the lurch. It didn’t take long to see the postman was actually my knight in shining armour. I was cream cracked from blitzing 46km the day prior from Pirongia Forest Park through Waitomo forest and into the back of Te Kuiti, with the last few km of energy sucking steep terrain with ankle breaking dried hoof prints, a far cry from the mud of Pirongia! So, although my body actually felt great my brain I had left somewhere in Waitomo Caves…. in addition the forecast said there’d be 23mm of rain to fall right when I’d be tackling another muddy forest. It was decided, a coffee and cake day.
I’ll come back to the beautiful Timber Trail in a jiffy. What I didn’t mention in my last blog (and I didn’t mention much to be honest - so be prepared this might be a long’un) was that yet again the postman had left me in the lurch. It didn’t take long to see the postman was actually my knight in shining armour. I was cream cracked from blitzing 46km the day prior from Pirongia Forest Park through Waitomo forest and into the back of Te Kuiti, with the last few km of energy sucking steep terrain with ankle breaking dried hoof prints, a far cry from the mud of Pirongia! So, although my body actually felt great my brain I had left somewhere in Waitomo Caves…. in addition the forecast said there’d be 23mm of rain to fall right when I’d be tackling another muddy forest. It was decided, a coffee and cake day.