Bayleys Mountain to Surf Marathon
I was excited to go to New Zealand for this marathon. I was going alone with just a backpack of gear and it was going to be quite an adventure! New Plymouth is a town about an hour by plane south of Auckland. We’d no sooner taken off on that flight and the crew had run through the plane throwing food at us, than it was time to land! The mountain mentioned in the title of the marathon, known as…