• Official Kms: unknown as it’s a detour.
• Garmin kms: 32.93km. Accidentally went off track for about 500 metres of it.
• Total time: 8.14
• Calories burnt: 4025
• Body battery: 7/10 I’m feeling a little tired today.
• Accommodation: tent at Broadwood campsite.
• Tent nights = 3!

This morning we awoke at 5am, this gives us lots of time to get ready & have showers etc. I’m also eating left over KFC for breakfast. Big day today as we expect it to be over 30km.

I watched a video of Jon and Carolines this morning it was their day three video and it made me realise how much I miss my wife right now 😥

The plan is to meet the 4 girls & Kevin out the front at 7am & start walking with them.

Around the 9km mark I caught up to Nikki & Felix & we managed to pump out the 1st 14km in 3 hours before deciding to stop for our 1st break.

We had another break at the 19km then Nikki & I took off & proceeded to walk the rest of the 14km from that point together. We had to climb up to close to the 400m elevation mark over a saddle on an old 4wd track & drop down the other side with off & on heavy rain spells.

A couple of kms down the other side there is a river that you need to cross & with a bit of rain this is known to be difficult, however we were lucky & it was still quite low!

We got to Broadwood dairy at just after 3.30pm just before their closing time of 4pm & bought an ice cream each. A 2.25 of coke & a bottle of bubbles to celebrate with the crew when they arrive, the big day that we just did!

It has been a great day as I’m feeling fitter & faster & my body is coping well! Looking forward to bed tonight.

Tomorrow we are only walking the 20km to Mangamuka & my mum is picking the 4 of us up to go spend the night with my sister & family. I’m really Looking forward to catching up & seeing them all!

1st 6 days on the trail video here: