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3000 kilometres on your bike, plus the training miles, burns plenty of calories. Combine this with the constraint of 'eating what's available when you can', rather than what your nutritionist prescribes - and you'll spend a lot over dosh on crap food... and still misplace a few kilos between Cape Reinga and Bluff.
Training for most TA riders involves a mixture of some long distance/multi-day training rides with a 'slow-start' strategy - gaining fitness, speed and distance as you progress down the country. Irrespective of how juiced you want to be on the start line - Ollie, Anja, Tristan and Scott outline some considerations for preparing your body to ride the length of New Zealand.
The Tour Aotearoa invites endless excuses to indulge in a new bike plus screes of hi-tech gear and clothing to enhance your tip-to-tail adventure. The pragmatic reality is that the best TA bike may well be the one you already own.
Without wanting to overthink your Tour Aotearoa too much, some 'in the beginning' navel gazing helps to resolve decisions on bike, gear, training and attitude.
'Your' TA may be as fast as 10 days, as luxurious as the thirty day maximum, or anything in between. Over the next few months we'll countdown various topics to help prepare your bike and body for the challenge.
I’m a huge fan of badly sung music - at the end of a long day with the prospect of a soggy bivy and soggier chips your only reward.
