The Magnificent Race Chapter 3 - Dec 2026 Race - Chat 1 Welcome everyone, or welcome back if you joined us earlier this year for Chapter 2, or last year for chapter 1. Wait...we're already talking chapter 3?!? Amazing how that time ticks by when you are doing big things. We're pretty jazzed to kick off the journey to the third edition of the Magnificent Adventure Race with our first official newsletter. Edition 2 was less than three days old, and we were hard at work on

The Magnificent Race 2026 - Chat #4 With one week to go until we see all of you, we imagine many of you are busy traveling and doing the last bit of your packing. We ourselves are busy tying up all of our loose ends and getting everything we can dialed in for all of you. While short, this chat does have some important information, so please be sure to share it with your teammates. Ka Tipu the Kiwi is excited to meet you all EMBARGO PLEASE consider this an official request t

It's go time (for us here on the Magnificent crew) and the final month of prep time for all of you brave racers. Jason and Chelsey have arrived in country, and our head of Media will arrive before month's end. And February will be 100% MAGNIficent for us as we put the last year's worth of work and planning into a nice, beautiful and brutal package for you. So dig into this third chat and feel the tingles of excitement (or is that fear?!?) that come with each new day that p

In 2021, Covid changed the world. It also changed expedition adventure racing in NZ. GODzone, the country’s iconic expedition race, was delayed. When it was finally held in Rotorua, it changed to a supported format to minimize person to person contact and fall in-line with the country's response to the virus. According to local lore, the RD’s found that relying on each team to provide a support crew to manage all of their own gear transport between TAs (as opposed to the RD