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Are there any NZDF (NZ Defence Force) folks out there who use GurneyGoo?

I need a little help….

Give your race the best shot…. don’t let preventable chafing and blisters slow or stop you!

Once chafing and blisters irritate you, they don’t improve, in fact they always get worse, and your race performance will only decrease. I know it personally from 30 years of racing this incredible event. They’re totally preventable problems.

How a 309km walk across the UK countryside in 13 days ignited a passion.

“Pack the Gurney Goo for chaffing and blisters. Worked like a dream.”

Kiwi father and son arrived in England in mid-July to begin a 13-day walk across the width of the country. The Coast to Coast is a long-distance footpath from St Bees in Cumbria to Robin Hood's Bay in North Yorkshire. It’s said that the route’s planner, Alfred Wainwright, liked long walks as a way to avoid his wife.

Congrats for making the effort to come to the Kathmandu Coast to Coast info sessions. It’s usually the first step to gather information that’s the hardest step, so well done; you’re over the “hump”.

The last weekend of August is a well anticipated date in the New Zealand Ultra and Trail Running calendar. Not only does it herald the imminent onset of spring, but almost more importantly, it is the weekend of the well loved Great Naseby Water Race.

We’d considered George Sound a true adventure….Well the adventure is actually getting to George Sound carrying a kayak! (and back again!)

It’s one of a multitude of Sounds, Fiords and inlets in the famous Fiordland, and is about halfway between Milford and Doubtful sounds.

Fiordland adventures involve notoriously and continuously wet feet, along the major threat of  blisters and trench foot.  A threat that we simply and elegantly solved by using GurneyGoo.

Over half of the teams in the race had to pull out due to foot problems caused by the persistent and sometimes torrential rain. It was an 11 day race in the jungles and deserts of Forteleza, Brasil.