Adventure for Dementia

We did it! Twelve laps of the Pipeline of Pain and nearly $12,000 raised for Dementia Canterbury!

Saturday's twelve laps took 17:58:10 and covered 60.9 km and 5,745 m of climbing - that's 1.5 times the height of Aoraki Mt Cook. I've run 78 laps of the Pipeline of Pain this year - that's 395.7 km and 37,166 m of climbing. I may not do it again for a while....

I'm not sure that it has really sunk in yet - the enormity of what we have achieved. I say "we" because I certainly couldn't have done this without the community of people that have rallied around my mad idea. Back in January, this whole thing was a bit of a pipe dream (pun intended) and I wasn't entirely sure that it was possible. But with a bit of stubborn and a whole lot of support, we have totally smashed all of my goals!

Thank you so much to everyone who helped me on my Adventure for Dementia! To those who showed up to run a lap or two, the folks who donated money to a stranger doing a mad thing, the friends, family and strangers who gave up their weekends to feed me snacks and offer moral support, the online community who cheered me on from afar, local businesses Further Faster, Team CP & Pure Sports Nutrition for their support, my partner Hamish for facilitating the madness and the mad bugger Ken who joined me for 66 of my 78 laps(!) - thank you! This would not have been possible without you all!

Now I might go and have a nap - I need to rest up before the next mad adventure, whatever that might be..