My hands sliced through the pristine surging currents after making it through the most challenging part of my adventure: a hairpin bend with fast-flowing rapids, a steep and imposing rock…
Making the turn towards the town of Murchinson, the Buller River came into view for the first time in about nine months. The previous April, I’d just finished mountain biking…
First published by Tansy Boggon March 3 2020, Joyful Eating Nutrition It was a whirlwind of a week supporting my husband, Rob, as he swam the 256 km length of…
A Deleted Chapter from my Upcoming Book - Downriver Nomad: A Triathlete's Adventures and Adversity Into the Rapids Akaroa Harbour Swim Akaroa Harbour Swim After coming home from an adventure…
The frost was still on the ground when I stepped out of the van at the far end of glacial Lake Coleridge. A few days after Christmas 2020, one of…
I’ve now read the incredible book, “The Art of Resilience” by Ross Edgely. For those unfamiliar with him, in 2018, he spent 2018 days at sea and became the first…
The Buller River was a swim that I'd unconsciously brushed off as a 'training' swim for what I was considering my summer main event, a multi day swim down the…
Gazing out the window of a shuttle van was when the inspiration hit me to have yet another amazing Kiwi adventure that one could argue was a little outside the…
With about two kilometres to go, the magnitude of what I had accomplished over the last four and a half days dawned on me. I’d come 256 kilometres from a…