Twitting. The final (or at least most current) web fronteir.

So I tweet now on twitter, god that sounds pathetic. Any way I through it up under my design name rather than my gamer tag or this. http://twitter.com/makipae

Out of the blue

Yeah it seems that way when I havent updated this for so long. I'm still training. Trying to get into a rutine of jogging one a night now to and on a new diet of mostly tinned fish. Theres some good flavours out there like sealords terriaki tune.

Now we havent yet decided weather or not to tie our walk in with a charity but due to a recent devalopment in my life if we do I think I found the perfect one. Myalgic Encephalopathy or
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or more simply M.E. Its a rather horrible condition that is more common than people would think and it really needs better awearness. Heres the link for the NZ branch: www.anzmes.org.nz/. Please read up on it, and be understanding to those who have it.

Now I've never been good at keeping this updated but but I was thinking of starting a twitter, much easier to remember to do and a friend linked me to a desktop app to do it with out the need for browsers so always a bonus. Sure I'll still update this and the twitter will have mindless junk from the rest of my life to, but hey, at least it will be more fequent junk.

I'm off to Taranaki in two weeks, yay, get to see someone. Nothing training related (well shes that recent devalopment) but I just wanted to shear the good news of my short trip.

Its been to long since my last update. I've started a new course in the hopes of getting more qualifications to get a job and its left me tired as hell. Still, I'm hoping to get a part time job as a stock boy nights and weekends to help pay for this trip. Training still going good but I have to glue my inner soles in place as they keep sliding back on me. I managed to track down Andrew McNeur on face book, hes agreed to over me advice and such so I will be emailing him soon. Should be good to talk to someone whos already done it.

Here in no particular order are some of the places we will be passing through:

This is the Wainuiomata round about where our trip will be starting, then up and over the hill, what a way to start.
http://maps.google.co.nz/maps/mpl?ie=UTF8&moduleurl=http:%2F%2Fmaps.google.co.nz%2Fintl%2Fen_nz%2Fhelp%2Fmaps%2Fholidays%2Fmapplet.html&mapclient=google&ll=-41.254597,174.929842&spn=0,359.996567&z=18&layer=c&cbll=-41.254654,174.929918&panoid=IUI-0ly-jDxVyXXbWfeF_Q&cbp=12,303.3669322131958,,0,-1.9605965262126614

These is a view of the mountian ranges in the middle of the island we will be passing by.
http://maps.google.co.nz/maps/mpl?ie=UTF8&moduleurl=http:%2F%2Fmaps.google.co.nz%2Fintl%2Fen_nz%2Fhelp%2Fmaps%2Fholidays%2Fmapplet.html&mapclient=google&ll=-39.183304,175.429688&spn=0,359.121094&z=10&layer=c&cbll=-39.17901,175.456283&panoid=5u1EvSXl1Nuw6C99_nGIjw&cbp=12,161.30225965439843,,0,2.834481080733838

This is the strech of road that runs from Miranda to Cleverdon, near Auckland and the part I'm looking forward to most, well other than a brief visit to Waihiki after all I've heard of it.
http://maps.google.co.nz/maps/mpl?ie=UTF8&moduleurl=http:%2F%2Fmaps.google.co.nz%2Fintl%2Fen_nz%2Fhelp%2Fmaps%2Fholidays%2Fmapplet.html&mapclient=google&ll=-37.033255,175.280685&spn=0,359.299622&z=11&layer=c&cbll=-37.008881,175.290266&panoid=Cl_tcP8TtY4BUv5knVpHew&cbp=12,94.2137469855237,,0,4.89464518157828

Cape Reinga, the final road.
http://maps.google.co.nz/maps/mpl?ie=UTF8&moduleurl=http:%2F%2Fmaps.google.co.nz%2Fintl%2Fen_nz%2Fhelp%2Fmaps%2Fholidays%2Fmapplet.html&mapclient=google&ll=-34.4411,172.698425&spn=0,357.198486&z=9&layer=c&cbll=-34.4411,172.698425&panoid=WBh-mxF3Y157KfV7lDwfkw&cbp=12,299.97429281612795,,0,10.162386102664205

A small, near unmapped strech of country road.
http://maps.google.co.nz/maps/mpl?ie=UTF8&moduleurl=http:%2F%2Fmaps.google.co.nz%2Fintl%2Fen_nz%2Fhelp%2Fmaps%2Fholidays%2Fmapplet.html&mapclient=google&ll=-39.602327,175.157128&spn=0,359.649811&z=12&layer=c&cbll=-39.602327,175.157128&panoid=y4BGxJK7JP8bcXLqsavssQ&cbp=12,284.5899038735693,,0,1.6286458105050056

This here is the only strech, or that we can help anyway, of state highway one that we will be traveling down.
http://maps.google.co.nz/maps/mpl?ie=UTF8&moduleurl=http:%2F%2Fmaps.google.co.nz%2Fintl%2Fen_nz%2Fhelp%2Fmaps%2Fholidays%2Fmapplet.html&mapclient=google&ll=-40.704977,175.220604&spn=0,359.824905&z=13&layer=c&cbll=-40.705079,175.220561&panoid=phOk2C-SPMAnGhvqP7Vi4w&cbp=12,47.22549796943753,,0,12.585546926363724


Not much to put in posts really so my one a week thing will most likly slow down, and with course even less so.

Still in training and new shoes

Sorry for missing last weeks post, got tied up. And this week will be just a brief one as I'm not in the mood for much writing.

I was going to add in those google street links but that can wait till next week insted.

I got new shoes, dynlop evolutions or such, $50 from number one shoe wharehouse. Went in to get new steelcaps and walked out with these to.

Training is going well, been walking between waterloo, naenae and lower hutt a lot but that may be changing soon, not sure.

Anyway thats all this week sorry. Hope to do better next time.

Pathways and those who came before

It should be noted first off that in planning this I'm using a three piece map of New Zealand from Jason's Travel Media (http://www.jasons.com/) Although helpful not very detailed. (I had some google street map links below but I screwed them up so I'll edit them in in a day or two.)

- Our Journey begins in the Hutt Vally in a small hill surrounded hole called Waiuniomata. From here we will pass over the hill, through the Vally and spend our first night in Upper Hutt.
- Day two will be spent souly on the windy (as curvy not to blow a gale) road of the Akatara Vally nestling us in Waikanae.
- The next four to five days will be spent mostly along the west coast darting inland every so often as we make our way to Wanganui.
- Its planed at the moment from here we will travel along the Wanganui River through such "towns" as Koriniti and Jerusalem.
- As we proceed north through the center of the island we will be taken the western roads past the mountains and Lake Taupo. Better to see the road less traveled and all that.
- The route from here becomes somewhat unknown. Off to Hamilton then north to walk the stretch between Miranda and Cleverdon. Then for now nothing is known between there and Cape Reinga.

I know we are not the first, and by no means the last people to tread the trails laid to us by the pioneers of this country. And in recognition of this I thought it would be nice to give mention of a few who have ventured this path.

- One worth noting is Andrew Mcnuer who walked both islands for Arthritis New Zealand.(http://www.dailypost.co.nz/localnews/storydisplay.cfm?storyid=3742228&thesection=localnews&thesubsection=&thesecondsubsection=)
(http://www.arthritis.org.nz/)
- I just learnt of Emma Daken while writing this and trying to find the links I had the other day. Seems shes just finishing up doing the long hall and is the youngest person in New Zealand to have done it. (http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2008/11/emma_daken.html)
- Chris Cairns the cricketer (?) done a walk for railway safety or such recently. (http://www.chriscairnsfoundation.co.nz/news.asp?NewsID=68)
- And there was a bunch of Chinese that traveled from Auckland to Wellington to see Halen Clark for another awareness run but I cant seem to find the link again.

As you'll see a few changes have been made to the site. On the right you will see a working list of the inventory for the marathon. By working I mean that I'm still working on it. Below this there is a map of New Zealand that when I mention a town you can type it in and see where its located. Another thing of worth while note is the timer at the bottom of the page. This is counting down to the time and date of the Kiwi Boots Tour. And lastly you'll notice some ads scattered about. please feel free to click on one every so often to show your support to our little endeavour. Now all I need is a new layout template and to finish designing the logo.

I finaly manage to get Nic around to do a small blog entry that he dictated out to me while removing a fish tank from the confines of my living room.

"After stuffing my face all Christmas I have come to the realisation that I could not walk continuously for 6 hours let alone for 20 days. I have decided to commit myself to to a rigourous training regime and practice the art of self control to keep my hands away from pies, lollies and other such junk food."