\u201cIt was race on right from the beginning for me and I raced hard,\u201d Lund said.<\/p>\n
She said the challenge rotated between the disciplines. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s lots of transitions and complications, it\u2019s crazy really, but it\u2019s a neat atmosphere.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lund has completed the challenge a total of six times and also placed second in 2024.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought I would just do one and be done, but unfortunately, I got the bug.\u201d<\/p>\n
She said her favourite part was the run, while her least favourite was the kayak. <\/p>\n
\u201cI love trail running, mountain running, running is a bit of a loose term, you are literally running up a river bed, over a pass … most of it is boulders and river.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hannah Lund said the challenge rotated between running, biking and kayaking. Photo \/ Chris Skelton <\/p>\n
Lund now lives in Methven, but credits her love for multisport events to the \u0100kitio Challenge in her childhood.<\/p>\n
She said this started at the Dannevirke Rugby Club, with athletes making their way out to Weber and then to \u0100kitio.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a kid, that was my intro into multisport, watching Mum and Dad and Mum and Dad\u2019s friends compete in that, and then getting big enough to take part.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s what planted the seed for me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dannevirke High School acknowledged Lund\u2019s achievement on social media.<\/p>\n
\u201cAmazing result from ex-DHS head student Hannah Lund, who placed second in the women\u2019s individual event at the Kathmandu Coast to Coast.<\/p>\n
\u201cWell done Hannah, we\u2019re so proud of you.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lund, who works as a vet, said her dedication to training meant she only worked a four-day work week before the event, using the extra day to train.<\/p>\n
She said she trained for eight months and in the last three months trained 15 to 20 hours a week.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a nice way to switch off at the end of the day, and go from vet mode to athlete mode.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe journey is what makes it, it\u2019s really nice having this other goal on the side rather than just career, mortgage and life.\u201d<\/p>\n
In preparation for the kayak, Lund said she paddled upstream, rather than down, as done in the challenge.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a good way to still be on moving water, but get more training done in less time.\u201d<\/p>\n
As for future challenges and aiming for first place, Lund said she wasn\u2019t sure just yet.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will see, it\u2019s too soon to say.\u201d<\/p>\n
Michaela Gower joined Hawke\u2019s Bay Today in 2023 and is based out of the Hastings newsroom. She covers Dannevirke and Hawke\u2019s Bay news and loves sharing stories about farming and rural communities. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt was race on right from the beginning for me and I raced hard,\u201d Lund said. She said…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1975,6636,651,11586,37251,33092,528,2740,6868,22137,106,2959,36168,161757,111,139,69,22399,4062,8466,213,61],"class_list":["post-292123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-at","tag-challenge","tag-close","tag-coast","tag-dannevirke","tag-deputy","tag-far","tag-former","tag-girl","tag-hannah","tag-head","tag-high","tag-kathmandu","tag-lund","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-places","tag-school","tag-second","tag-sports","tag-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292123","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=292123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}