Brian Anderson, co-owner of The Bike Shed in Whanganui<\/a>, signed up.<\/p>\nBrian had previously raced about 20 years ago and Zoe\u2019s brother Charlie had completed the solo challenge too, which motivated her.<\/p>\n
\u201cI sort of wanted to follow in their footsteps so I ended up racing my dad this year, but he had to pull out, he DNFed [did not finish], which was a bit of a bugger but there\u2019s always next year I suppose,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Anderson balanced out her training in the months leading up to the event.<\/p>\n
She would mountain bike once or twice a week, run 10km off-road each week and minimise kayak paddling.<\/p>\n
She indirectly got some training in at the Tikitapu Sprint Regatta 1 on December 6-7, where she impressed in multiple K4, K2 and solo races.<\/p>\n
For the Crazyman, her plan was to pace herself with the kayaking start, which she finished just three minutes behind Lynch.<\/p>\n
Anderson took the same approach to the start of the mountain bike before she reached the first, and biggest, hill.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a bit of a killer,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor the last 400m I had to push my bike because it was so steep and rocky.\u201d<\/p>\n
During the trail run, Anderson was throwing up on the side of the road and \u201cjust surviving\u201d for the last 2km before crossing the line.<\/p>\n
She will enter her final year at Cullinane College in 2026.<\/p>\n
There are several kayaking regattas she is looking forward to and she wants to start mountain biking competitively.<\/p>\n
Anderson hopes to compete at the Mountain Bike National Championships in Rotorua in March.<\/p>\n
Fin Ocheduszko Brown is a multimedia journalist based in Whanganui.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThat was probably one of the toughest races I\u2019ve ever been in but the feeling when you cross…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[50543,6726,35435,118432,8231,9787,6204,18984,118433,71,42489,111,139,69,9716,7798,5652,59353,213,5163,61,52,1883,1354,1530,56521,20734],"class_list":["post-188760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-anderson","tag-become","tag-becomes","tag-crazyman","tag-event","tag-female","tag-fine","tag-finish","tag-finisher","tag-from","tag-multisport","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-old","tag-race","tag-signs","tag-solo","tag-sports","tag-teen","tag-to","tag-wellington","tag-whanganui","tag-woman","tag-years","tag-youngest","tag-zoe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}