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title: "Running Te Araroa"
url: https://adventurouslucy.com/te-araroa/
description: "3,000km down New Zealand along the Te Araroa Trail in 66 days and 7 hours: the island reports, the training, the packing list and the food plan."
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# Running Te Araroa

On Nov 11, 2019, I set off to run the length of NZ along the Te Araroa Trail. I did it…in 66 days and 7 hrs.

The Te Araroa runs 3,000km from Cape Reinga at the very top of the North Island to Bluff at the bottom of the South. These are the entries written from and about that run – the two island reports, the training behind it, what went in the pack, what I ate, and how I held my head together when the trail got hard.

- [Packing for a 66-day run across NZ](https://adventurouslucy.com/post/packing-for-a-66-day-run-across-nz/) Mar 11, 2020
- [Food, glorious food](https://adventurouslucy.com/post/food-glorious-food/) Feb 18, 2020
- [Mental toughness](https://adventurouslucy.com/post/mental-toughness/) Jan 26, 2020
- [How the heck do you train for a 3,000km run?!](https://adventurouslucy.com/post/how-the-heck-do-you-train-for-a-3-000km-run/) Jan 23, 2020
- [Te Araroa Trail - The South Island](https://adventurouslucy.com/post/the-south-island/) Jan 20, 2020
- [Te Araroa Trail - The North Island](https://adventurouslucy.com/post/the-north-island/) Jan 19, 2020

[See the whole Te Araroa category](https://adventurouslucy.com/the-blog1/categories/te-araroa/), or read [the plan](https://adventurouslucy.com/the-plan/) that started it.