Swim Run Trips

In early 2018 I casually mentioned to my friend John Hancock that I’d love to run the length of the Abel Tasman track over a Summer weekend. John is a well known Swim Run enthusiast (as featured on this IM Talk podcast interview), and what happened next is a group Swim Run weekend was created.

We swam and ran our way along the coast from Totaranui to Marahau over a 1.5 days with glamping in the middle, and had so much fun it sparked an annual event.

Waiheke island

In March 2019 I organised an reunion of the Abel Tasman gang, this time destination Waiheke Island, which I knew from my previous trail running trip would be great destination for Swim Run - warm water and beautiful trails. I hired a bach at Onetangi beach in the middle of the island and over a long weekend eight of us ran and swam around some fabulous trails, headlands and bays using the Te Ara Hura trail network as our base.