Wellbeing.nz across the motu - Kōpiko Aotearoa: East to West by Bike

On 22nd December 2023 I received the news nobody wants for Xmas - I had cancer. Having worked in human performance and health my whole life, I was determined to find out what I could do to make the journey I was now on, as positive as possible. It involved some deep, dark, and hard places, but the experience of preparing for, undergoing, and recovering from my prescribed treatment, actually resulted in finding greater wellbeing than I had ever experienced. On reflection, 2024 turned out to be one of the best years of my life and in 2025 I am making good on a promise I made to myself during treatment - Refining and sharing my wellbeing philosophy and experience with as many people as possible, to increase the number of flourishing, thriving, "Well Beings" in the world. I have started the website https://www.wellbeing.nz to begin doing this and am going to ride the Kōpiko Aotearoa route http://www.touraotearoa.nz/p/kopiko.html (approximately 1100kms & 16000m of climbing) across the widest part of the country, to launch the platform and celebrate the anniversary of completing treatment. I will use this opportunity to raise funds for an organisation that despite it's remote location and limited funds, contributes massively to the wellbeing of people that weren't as fortunate as I was to receive a curative treatment; and instead have entered the last phase of their life - Far North Hospice.