29 APRIL 2023 – NORTH CANTERBURY, NEW ZEALAND: Rolling into the last aid station, one of the support crew yelled out, “Looking good, guys!”, to which Henry responded with cat-like reflexes, “Damn straight, bet you haven’t seen three better looking fellas run past here all day!”
His response leaves the aid station volunteers in hysterics, and even manages to elicit a few muffled chuckles from the young farmhands leaning on the back of a ute.
This pretty much sums up the good-natured vibe of Aotearoa’s newest trail event, Skedaddle – a trail run for nature.
Henry was a young guy I teamed up with at the Bush Hut aid station for the last 10km of the 42.2km Two Tunner event. Having both decided we weren’t