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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Fine
from Newstalk zed B.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I want to move straight to Surf Life Saving because
it was double domination from the defending champions yesterday at
the prestigious Race one Surfcraft Mount Monster in Mount Monganuy.
Last year Open champions Jaden Murphy of Mount Monganey and
Kate McCarty lyle Bay and Wellington both produced blistering performances
to maintain their respective crowns in the country's top surf
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life saving endurance race. What they have to do a
ten k ski paddle, a five k soft sand run,
then a jump from the famous blowhole on Motoriki Island
for a one and a half k ocean swim and
they close it out with a five and a half
k board paddle to the finish. For Jaden Murphy it
extends his winning streak in this event to an incredible
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fourth Open title in a row. Jada Murphy is with us,
You've got to give everybody else a chance.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Oh, they definitely come in very competitive and there.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
You see yesterday or before the race, you wanted to
go hard from the start of the ten k ski paddle.
Why was that your strategy.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
SKA pedal is my strong my strongest leg, and I
just like getting out, getting in my own rhythm, of
my own water, and I can just focus on what
I need to do and it just helps the race
flow for me personally.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
So that's always the game plan.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Is there also a sense of wanting to, I guess,
burn off your competitors early in the in the piece.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Oh yeah, for sure, for sure, Like it's easier to
lead them to chase.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
So it worked well for you. You got out to
a to a lead. Can you talk us through the
rest of the race or talk us through the whole
thing as you reflect upon it the day after.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Yeah, Like I say, just a good, good, good first
ski leg, put a couple of minutes on everyone in
that and then ran well. And then the swim, being
my probably my second strongest leg, I just really tried to,
you know, focus on that as well and try and
drag that lead out a little bit more.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
And then I was.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Able to kind of have a relatively easy last leg
on the board and just get around the course and
finish and not get caught up with having to try
and trying to sprint anyone off at the finital one.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
So and in terms of your times, where you where
you're about, where your thought you'd be, where you wanted
to be.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Yeah, I think I paced it out pretty well. The
ski obviously was was real good. My run was I
was real happy with my run. And then yeah, after that,
everything starts falling into place. So yeahs Stoper thought I
put down.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
As you're competing in the various leagues, are you aware
of how far ahead you are?
Speaker 3 (02:49):
I ask people my old man, he's my bigges supporter.
He's always on the beach keeping track, so you know
he's saying the twa minutes behind, the minute forty whatever.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
You know, the catch you need to work you to
do this.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
So that's good because it's pretty hard to look over
your shoulder and try and engage our hosts and that
people are catching you while you're raising.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
You said before that that others are coming. You've won
this four years in a row. But is it a
fairly competitive feel that or was it yesterday that you
were up against?
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Yeah, super competitive, Like obviously I had a good, good
start and got away of my own water. But you know, second,
third and fourth all within you know, thirty seconds of
each other. And they are a couple of minutes behind me,
So it's you know, it's it's definitely super competitive and
you know it's New Zealand's premiere and Duram Time Man event,
so everyone wants to win it.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
What sort of preparation goes into achieving success like this
for you? What's your build up to a race like this?
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Like so I would train every night and every morning
Monday through to Friday. We swim an hour a half
in the pool every morning and then we're on the
water for hour hour and a half in the evenings
and as well as by a few runs in there
and Saturday quite often we'll do a full course run through,
so there for two two and a half hours, just
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really trying to get that knowledge of you know, your
body as you're working for that longer period of time.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
So there's a lot of work.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
What's the what's the soft sand run?
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Like?
Speaker 2 (04:19):
I mean, anybody who's run on saying knows it's difficult,
you know, even for a couple of hundred meters five.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
K Yeah, definitely stranger and that's really sucks it out
of your legs, but you know, you just get in
a rhythm and chuck along and once you get your
legs flowing it that's not terrible.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
How did you get into this? So you sound like
your old man's as you say your biggest supporter? Is
he the one who got you into this?
Speaker 3 (04:42):
I kind of originated around when we moved to the
beach Charla of Mount mcinery. My parents wanted me to
be safe around the water, so they got me in
a surf life saving and then it's kind of descrowned
from there. I love the club, love the culture, love
the sports. So I've just, you know, really really taken
that and I've spent a lot of time.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
Doing it overseas as well.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Loved over an Aussy and gone to Japan and Italy
and stuff with the sports.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
So it's you know, it's me, It's part of me.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
So incredible and busy time ahead for you think Eastern
Regional Champs, Nationals. You've got a couple of races in
Australia in March and April. What are your goals for
the summer ahead.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
I'd love to win another National Open title for the
Ironman event that to be. That's a massive goal as
well as you know, really try and mix it over
and Addie because you know the boys over there, they
fly off line, so we're really cool to go over
there and start making some wine finals.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
And you're part of the volunteer patrol at Mount Mong
going to be lifeguard service. While this is competitive, obviously
there's the safety aspect as well of everybody who goes
swimming across the summer. How much of this helps you
to get in shape? Now that don't I think you
need to? But how much does this help you get
in shape for December January? When I guess you're at
your busiest.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
It's pretty crucial.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Hey, you know when you're when you're a lifeguard and
you're in out of the water all the time and
you're you're trying to look after people out there, you've
got to be fit yourself and you've got to be
you know, pretty pretty onto it with getting in and
out through the surf, so is at is super crucial
and you know it just really makes you a better
like guard.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Well, congratulations on number four. You're back for I mean,
I presume you're back to defend again next year? Are you?
All things going well for number five?
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Have to on the home beach, got to go to five?
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Love it, Jaden congratulations mate, all the best for the
summer a head. Thanks for bringing out to us.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Thank you appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Now I appreciate you joining us. Jaden and Jaden Murphy
men's winner of the race one surf Craft mount Monster.
What a name for an event. Now, I'm not going
to be yesterday. Let's bring in women's champion Kate McCarty
from the Loell Bay Club in Wellington. Kate, congratulations to
you on going back to back talk us through the
race yesterday. Were you happy with how it went?
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (06:47):
I was super happy to put out a good race
and to have my family and friends there to support
me and do what's really special to me.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
It seems to be a lot of moving parts to
this whole thing, a lot of different different things that
you've got to get your head around. How do you
go about planning, you know, the perfect race in a
situation like this.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
I mean a race is never going to be perfect,
but just trying to put together each league as best
as I can and piece it together. I guess working
to my strengths as well, which is probably the run
and swim, just to make up ground and kind of
get a lead and then yeah, work through as as
much as I.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Can, so talk us through each of the different legs.
When did you, I mean, were you werehead on the
ski pedal for example, when did you sort of take
the lead and think to yourself, right, I'm in a
pretty good position here.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
I came up fourth out of the first leg, fast
ski leg, maybe a minute or so behind, and then
I did the run and I think I was maybe
two or three minutes ahead, and just extended that into
the swim and the board, which was yeah, which was good.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
So it was on the on the on the run
that you that you kind of kind of asserted a
bit of dominance. That sounds hard man running five k
on soft sand.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
Yeah it was hard, but yeah, definitely definitely challenging, but
they're all challenging, I guess, depending on what your strengths are.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Now, you were only seventeen when you won it last year,
youngest ever female winner. Eighteen. Now presumably did you feel
like you had a target on your back yesterday?
Speaker 5 (08:17):
I mean, I guess so obviously winning it last year,
there's always going to be some pressure, but so many
amazing women out there competing for the titles, So people
come in and out of competing it and doing it
each year, so it's always a different field. So yeah,
you didn't really know who's going to be up to
it on the day.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
How did you get into the sport?
Speaker 5 (08:39):
It was my dad when I was maybe eleven or twelve.
He just wanted me to feel confident and comfortable in
the water. So yeah, I did stef life stay to
make sure I just had a success skills, I guess,
and then fell in love with it. Got into the
sports side through Lile based f Lifesaving Club, so I
was really lucky to have a great group there run
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by Craig Jones, So really thankful for my family.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
And then how did you get so good so quickly?
Speaker 5 (09:09):
Oh definitely wasn't so good so differently started them, you know,
not bad when I was young, but coming from Wellington
is challenging competing against all the people slut north. But yeah,
just I guess time on the water, time practicing. I've
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definitely got better as I've gotten older.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Yeah, the beaches are welling tonight quite the same as
the mounds are.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
They not quite the same differences either.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
You did, right, So have you got other events coming
up over the over the months ahead? The summer that
you're that you're going to be competing in.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
Yeah, I'm heading over to Ossie in January to do
some events and I'm doing university over there as well,
so just working universities the more and then I'll come
back over here for nationals next year. So yeah, a
few comps which will be nice.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
It seems as our Australia has got a huge surf
life saving culture. Are you looking forward to immersing yourself
on that.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
Yes, definitely. I've been over there for quite a bit
of this year as well, doing my first year university
and training the Norse Cluff, so I'm very lucky for
them as well. But yeah, it's crazy over there, so
much competition and the level was just a level above here,
so it's great to kind of dip my foot in
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there and get a taste of what it's like.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
And do you also volunteer over the summer months just
in surf life saving? You know you mentioned before about
how it was something your dad got into to make
sure you were safe in the water. Do you now
volunteer to make sure others are safe?
Speaker 5 (10:50):
Yeah, so as part of our sport, we have to
volunteer twenty four hours so everyone who competes, we do
patrol shifts in the weekend, just keeping the beaches safe,
I guess, and volunteering which is really nice. Nice to
have not only competing, but something to give back to
as well, which is really special.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
So you're back next year to try and make.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
It three in a row at the Mount, Yes, hopefully.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Well, I can tell you I know you're still there.
It's actually a beautiful day in Wellington today. That might
come as a surprise. Really yeah, it is actually okay
here today. I know you've probably seen some terrible days
here as I have, but it's actually your right today.
So I'm not sure when you're coming back, but hopefully
hopefully it holds. He congratulations on your win yesterday, Kate.
All the best for the summer ahead. It sounds like
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an exciting.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Time for you cool.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
Thank you so much, Jason, No.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Thank you for joining us, Kate. Kate McCarty there from
the live Blake Lile Bay Surf Club and Wellington Women's
winner of the race one surf Craft Mount Monster in
Mount Monganui yesterday. Good stuff.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
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