ECNZ 2010 – Day 8 – Wellington – Picton - Blenheim

ECNZ 2010 – Day 8 – Wellington – Picton - Blenheim

Today is a mandatory re-group day. An Epic first if I am not mistaken. We’ve got varying levels of fatigue through the camp but nobody is complaining. I actually feel pretty good, we’ll see how tomorrow goes.

Thankfully we had a smooth ferry crossing today, a 3hr trip from Wellington to Picton. Then a quick 28km ride to Blenheim, tail winds again… nice.

We often get asked what we eat at Epic. There is never a shortage of food. Here’s a run down of what I think I took in on the day 7

Pre swim

- 2 glasses Orange juice

- 3 pieces toast with plenty of peanut butter

Swim 3km

Breakfast

- About 5 scrambled eggs

- A few fried up left over potatoes

- Large bowl of Tasti cereal with plenty of yogurt, milk and strawberries

- 4 pieces of toast with peanut butter

Bike 200km with long steady spells on the front

First 65km

- about 1.5 bottles of High 5 sports drink

- 1 High 5 Isogel

- 1 Tasti nut bar

To Lunch (~130km)

- 2 bottles of High 5

- 1 Em’s Power Cookie/Bar

- 1-2 High 5 gels

Lunch

- 2 wraps with chicken, carrot, mayo, hummus, lettuce…)

- Handful of sweets

Last 70km

- 1 bottle high 5

- 1 bottle coke

- 1 High 5 Isogel

On arrival

- 1 bottle of High 5 Protein drink

- Small bag of cashews

- Handful of potato chips

- Banana

Dinner

- Restaurant meal of steak, vege’s, mixed potatoes, desert…

- A Steinlager

- Plenty of water

Whilst we finished the North Island there is a feeling in camp that we are almost done. I’m going to need to keep reminding myself that we still have around 1000km to go in the next 6 days, that’s a lot of riding. That said I am going to try pushing things a little more at times in the South Island

Summary

Bike 28km