Team Securify.co.nz

Sponsors (as in real ones): Eastern Suburbs Sports Trust, WildSide Travel, Marvelox/La Sportiva, Ems Power Cookies, Earth Sea Sky, Backcountry Cuisine, securify.co.nz, Fouhy Dietitians

Sponsors (not really): Jenny Cassie Barrister (aka Daves Bad Wife), ASB Revolving Credit Mortgages, Lower Hutt Hospital A&E, Susan Carter Enterprises (incorporating the Sarah Ulmer impersonation company),

Colin, Dave, Jerry and JoJo are heading off to another wild adventure - this time in the Thredbo Alpine resort which we are told is somewhere in the wilds of New South Wales.

Coming from the tropical climes of Wellington, New Zealand the team are looking forward to having a bit of fun and frolics over the projected 5-7 days we think it will take to complete. The team is a composite of 3 other teams from last years Whitsundays XPD - Cru Vin Dogs, SQLServices.com and Norsewear so we've done this race before so are au fait with living out of small black plastic boxes for days on end. Poor old Dave is the rookie this year!.

As a late arrival to the team JoJo Forbes has stepped into the mighty chasm created by Sgt Holden who had a slightly too-near miss with a tunnel while on her mountainbike. This resulted in a very popped shoulder. So JoJo has stepped up with a punishing training regime in the hilly (!) Bahamas supplemented with paddling in amongst sharks in the warm, blue, clear waters. Lucky person.

Colin has exorcised last years final stage XPD cane field demons bypretending to have broken his map board and handing nav duties over. Going round and round and round in circles for 5 hours weighs heavily on your mind - esp. when its the final leg of a race. Colin continues to be an embarrassment to the team both for his accent, his white Skins (often hard to work out whats Skins and what's skin if you see what i mean), and the fact he works in IT Security which is a really bloody interesting topic to explore for 5 days and nights ...

Dave has prepared by eating. Dave has prepared by eating more. After eating Dave prepared by eating. He then slept. Then he complained about getting up. Then he ate again. Ad infinitum.

Jerome has prepared himself by turning his self-heating unit up to 'global warming' level to melt both polar icecaps and a few kilos. He has developed a devestating sprint finish to beat his daughter in any MTB race he possibly can. As the default team navigator he is attempting to wean himself off Google Earth as his sole navigation tool.

Together we will be out there to have some fun, take the spirit of adventure to the extreme and probably annoy the absolute crap out of each other. But you know, thats what its all about :-)

Thanks to all our families, supporters, pets and local wine emporiums.

More info and updates are also available at http://www.wild-side.co.nz/events/wildathletes.aspx