March 10, 2026 • 6 mins
Tom O'Brien looks at ultra sport events that have occurred around the south recently.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Tag Wrecking Time. O'Brien is based up at Garston and
up in northern South and then joins us this afternoon.
Good afternoon, Tommy. The song there is stargazing by Miles Smith.
Are we you're based at the moment. You're telling me
(00:23):
you're up in the hills here at one of the
cabins trying to fix some solace, So looking at stars
might be the issue.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Well, yeah, got a stargazing mate. Yeah, I need to
find some kind of divine inspiration to figure out how
to work out the electrical element of the soular thing.
And it's just not really in my wheelhouse mate, So yeah,
I'm a bit stumped at the moment.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
You had a pretty good in school sired egg and science,
didn't you.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Oh well, I know that light plus energy plus CO
two when you add water, so you get cororful plus
C six H twelve O six plus six O two
is the chemical equation for photosynthesis, which photosynthesis. Yes, yeah,
so you need all of that to grow grass, and
so that's probably That's probably all I learned.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
It's been a pretty hectic week as far as endurance
sports of the running variety down here in the South.
We had the Magnificent which finished off at the week
end here in Gore. But you just thought for no
reason and all you do the Moto Tappy.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Well you're pretty much yeah, but you're bang on. Actually,
a good friend of mine, Don Sca, his partner couldn't
do the Moto Tapping marathon, and about ten days out
he said, oh, look, you know, do you want to
I've got a spare ticket. Do you want to do it?
And I kind of got fomo, And I'd never done
the mototape before, so meeting me, I kind of went, oh, well, okay,
I've done a little bit of training, but nothing is specific,
(01:47):
you know, enough to do that. But anyway, it was
a cracking day. We had five hundred people on the
start line and off we went, and yeah, it was
sort of running along for a bit, and I was
worried about a little bit of an injury that I
I thought might crop up, so I was sort of
popping the voltarins and the and the jowls and all
the electrolytes and stuff. But yeah, it was a great
(02:09):
day out and in fact, I got sort of probably
to about the twenty three twenty four k mark, and
I was pacing with a woman called Marie were Sutherlands,
and I thought it was that odd because she's running
along and every now and then she would say to people, oh,
do you want some jowls or do you want some
cramp stuff? And I said, to you were doctor, and
(02:30):
she said no, I invented pure energy jowls and that's
exactly what I was having during the race. So I
pulled them out and I said, you mean these things
and she goes, yeah, yeah. So so I had a
great chat to Marie for about an hour as we
were running along, and just her story was incredible, you know.
They she was a New Zealand Olympic rower and she's
(02:53):
an elite cyclist. So we killed a bit of time
running along and she said, oh, you're going to act
as my pacer for the race. So I dutifully agreed
to that and that put a bit of pressure on me,
and yeah, we got across the finish line. I think
I got fourth in my age group and seventieth out
of five hundred, so I was kind of happy with that.
I'll take that.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Now. The magnificent race concluded, like you said, Saturday evening,
and I went down to one of the local cafes
to get a coffee first thing Saturday morning. Here's a
team of Iuzzi's there they are inside. They were absolutely
buggered for want of another word, and I was just
having you into them about the race, and this is
what they had to put up with, right, So they said, oh, no,
sleep was good for us. We got four hours a night.
(03:35):
So there you go, over the course of a week
work that one out. But they are on the water
and the one I think at one stage paddling in
the ro on direction, working off the cumbers to go
where they wanted to go. And they found out only
found out that team a team had got metavacked off
the water when they got to the dairy and Clinton
and see it on the front page of the local
rag and they're like, what the hell's going on here?
(03:57):
Luckily though, that team was back in the race pretty
much sooner and later. But then they arrived at the
finish sign. It was at eight o'clock and they're like, well,
what do we do now? So nothing was open, so
you slept on the ground for a while.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Oh goodness me. Yeah, I mean that race is very unique,
and you know it's always going to have a lot
of major challenges and drama and all the rest of it.
You just mentioned that they went on the lake and
they were paddling the wrong way. I wonder if they
took into account, you know, the two norths, because there's
there's more than one north, you'll notice, and there's a
(04:29):
pole of North and then there's what's called magnetic Norse.
So you have to adjust your compass twenty one degrees
in order to be able to get true north in
terms of where you're going, and the difference between twenty
degrees of magnetic north and pure north and being over
a long distance and send you in the completely well
(04:49):
not completely, but definitely in the wrong direction. So maybe
there was an issue with that, who knows, But yeah,
either way, big challenges. But you know, these people who
step up and do these things, you've really got to
take your head off and then absolutely yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Yeah. Hey, lastly, ground conditions up at Garston's Dry and
certain parts of northern Southland. How are you coping?
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Oh? Well, look, I mean the pea harvest is happening
as we speak, so everything's going with that. At the moment.
Ground conditions are pretty good. You know, we haven't really
dried off it all up here. You know, everything's very
very green for this time of year, more so than
probably what we've ever had. Although and saying that, you know,
talking to Brandon of the gardens of Welcome Rock Gardens
with all the salad, greens and vegete production, he's had
(05:32):
an awful year. Yeah, just you know, we just haven't
had those regular hot days that we need because he
also irrogates, so he really wants those days. So the
yields have been back in certain types of crops, but
as far as grass cover and all that sort of
stuff going, I'd say that we're still doing okay up
here for the time of year.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Good on you, Tommy, you always appreciate your time.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Aw Some cheers made Laugh Out Loud with ag Proud
because life on the land can be a laughing matter.
Brought to us by Well Data Working to help the
Livestock Farmer.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
A special edition of Laugh Out Loud Today. Right THEO
men bora world map. He gave your dart door's wife
and said, wherever you throw the start on the map,
I'll take you there.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Turns out it was three weeks one the fridge love cool.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Good ef at THEO. We'll leave it there for the afternoon.
I'm Andy Mueller. This has been the master thanks to
Page Genelis podcast is going up shortly. Enjoy this beautiful
afternoon in the Deep South. Truly is God's own. See
you tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Clothes, don't leave me go
Tag Wrecking Time. O'Brien is based up at Garston and
up in northern South and then joins us this afternoon.
Good afternoon, Tommy. The song there is stargazing by Miles Smith.
Are we you're based at the moment. You're telling me
(00:23):
you're up in the hills here at one of the
cabins trying to fix some solace, So looking at stars
might be the issue.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Well, yeah, got a stargazing mate. Yeah, I need to
find some kind of divine inspiration to figure out how
to work out the electrical element of the soular thing.
And it's just not really in my wheelhouse mate, So yeah,
I'm a bit stumped at the moment.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
You had a pretty good in school sired egg and science,
didn't you.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Oh well, I know that light plus energy plus CO
two when you add water, so you get cororful plus
C six H twelve O six plus six O two
is the chemical equation for photosynthesis, which photosynthesis. Yes, yeah,
so you need all of that to grow grass, and
so that's probably That's probably all I learned.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
It's been a pretty hectic week as far as endurance
sports of the running variety down here in the South.
We had the Magnificent which finished off at the week
end here in Gore. But you just thought for no
reason and all you do the Moto Tappy.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Well you're pretty much yeah, but you're bang on. Actually,
a good friend of mine, Don Sca, his partner couldn't
do the Moto Tapping marathon, and about ten days out
he said, oh, look, you know, do you want to
I've got a spare ticket. Do you want to do it?
And I kind of got fomo, And I'd never done
the mototape before, so meeting me, I kind of went, oh, well, okay,
I've done a little bit of training, but nothing is specific,
(01:47):
you know, enough to do that. But anyway, it was
a cracking day. We had five hundred people on the
start line and off we went, and yeah, it was
sort of running along for a bit, and I was
worried about a little bit of an injury that I
I thought might crop up, so I was sort of
popping the voltarins and the and the jowls and all
the electrolytes and stuff. But yeah, it was a great
(02:09):
day out and in fact, I got sort of probably
to about the twenty three twenty four k mark, and
I was pacing with a woman called Marie were Sutherlands,
and I thought it was that odd because she's running
along and every now and then she would say to people, oh,
do you want some jowls or do you want some
cramp stuff? And I said, to you were doctor, and
(02:30):
she said no, I invented pure energy jowls and that's
exactly what I was having during the race. So I
pulled them out and I said, you mean these things
and she goes, yeah, yeah. So so I had a
great chat to Marie for about an hour as we
were running along, and just her story was incredible, you know.
They she was a New Zealand Olympic rower and she's
(02:53):
an elite cyclist. So we killed a bit of time
running along and she said, oh, you're going to act
as my pacer for the race. So I dutifully agreed
to that and that put a bit of pressure on me,
and yeah, we got across the finish line. I think
I got fourth in my age group and seventieth out
of five hundred, so I was kind of happy with that.
I'll take that.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Now. The magnificent race concluded, like you said, Saturday evening,
and I went down to one of the local cafes
to get a coffee first thing Saturday morning. Here's a
team of Iuzzi's there they are inside. They were absolutely
buggered for want of another word, and I was just
having you into them about the race, and this is
what they had to put up with, right, So they said, oh, no,
sleep was good for us. We got four hours a night.
(03:35):
So there you go, over the course of a week
work that one out. But they are on the water
and the one I think at one stage paddling in
the ro on direction, working off the cumbers to go
where they wanted to go. And they found out only
found out that team a team had got metavacked off
the water when they got to the dairy and Clinton
and see it on the front page of the local
rag and they're like, what the hell's going on here?
(03:57):
Luckily though, that team was back in the race pretty
much sooner and later. But then they arrived at the
finish sign. It was at eight o'clock and they're like, well,
what do we do now? So nothing was open, so
you slept on the ground for a while.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Oh goodness me. Yeah, I mean that race is very unique,
and you know it's always going to have a lot
of major challenges and drama and all the rest of it.
You just mentioned that they went on the lake and
they were paddling the wrong way. I wonder if they
took into account, you know, the two norths, because there's
there's more than one north, you'll notice, and there's a
(04:29):
pole of North and then there's what's called magnetic Norse.
So you have to adjust your compass twenty one degrees
in order to be able to get true north in
terms of where you're going, and the difference between twenty
degrees of magnetic north and pure north and being over
a long distance and send you in the completely well
(04:49):
not completely, but definitely in the wrong direction. So maybe
there was an issue with that, who knows, But yeah,
either way, big challenges. But you know, these people who
step up and do these things, you've really got to
take your head off and then absolutely yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Yeah. Hey, lastly, ground conditions up at Garston's Dry and
certain parts of northern Southland. How are you coping?
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Oh? Well, look, I mean the pea harvest is happening
as we speak, so everything's going with that. At the moment.
Ground conditions are pretty good. You know, we haven't really
dried off it all up here. You know, everything's very
very green for this time of year, more so than
probably what we've ever had. Although and saying that, you know,
talking to Brandon of the gardens of Welcome Rock Gardens
with all the salad, greens and vegete production, he's had
(05:32):
an awful year. Yeah, just you know, we just haven't
had those regular hot days that we need because he
also irrogates, so he really wants those days. So the
yields have been back in certain types of crops, but
as far as grass cover and all that sort of
stuff going, I'd say that we're still doing okay up
here for the time of year.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Good on you, Tommy, you always appreciate your time.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Aw Some cheers made Laugh Out Loud with ag Proud
because life on the land can be a laughing matter.
Brought to us by Well Data Working to help the
Livestock Farmer.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
A special edition of Laugh Out Loud Today. Right THEO
men bora world map. He gave your dart door's wife
and said, wherever you throw the start on the map,
I'll take you there.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Turns out it was three weeks one the fridge love cool.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Good ef at THEO. We'll leave it there for the afternoon.
I'm Andy Mueller. This has been the master thanks to
Page Genelis podcast is going up shortly. Enjoy this beautiful
afternoon in the Deep South. Truly is God's own. See
you tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Clothes, don't leave me go
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