Craig's Random Outdoor Ramblings

My post-Taupo thinking, now that have the full collection of helmet caps is toward not only finishing but being competitive. I am certainly ...

  I recently returned home from my annual pilgrimage to Taupo for the Lake Taupo Challenge . I've Now completed 7 challenges, and 18 L...

This past weekend I completed the second weekend of a Snowcraft course with the Wellington Tramping & Mountaineering Club . On Saturday ...

  Why? Lake Taupo Cycle Challenge 1280km Extreme Enduro 2011 ...

Often referred to as a pond by cyclists that have been ridden around it many times, Lake Taupo is New Zealand’s largest lake with a surface ...

I was in Ohakune for the Ruapehu Classic which I cycled yesterday . Earlier in the week at work when I was looking at the weather maps and ...

After a gorgeous night sky sleeping under the stars near Ohakune I was amped up for the Ruapehu Classic . It was a cracker of day. My only c...

I knew I was going to be struggling to pull out an always sought after PB around the Lake this year. Not only were my times in the lead-in e...

I had intended to ride in an event around Taranaki two weeks earlier which I missed due suffering from bronchitis. It was touch and go as...