January 29, 2010

BRRRMMMMM!!!

In honour of reaching Porirua and thus the home straight of our journey, The Big Walk team decided to take the opportunity to test out the “opposites attract” theory and up the anti… IN GO KARTS!!!

Just down the road from Camp Elsdon, which is home for the evening, is North City Indoor Raceway, who specialise in speedy wee go karts and were more than happy to let us have a burn after our dinner of self caught paua.

The team lit up as we pulled off the road into the carpark and we flew out into our briefing, The boys were in the first lot to go out onto the raceway, and man were they off!! It was all throttle no brakes for the first part as they all found their feet, and with a few wipeouts the race was on! Jd roared round the track, taking out the overall title of fastest lap speed, with stiff competition from all involved.

The second group was laden with instructors who all had their competitive faces on as they helmeted up. Steve and Jamie battled it out for first place, and depending on who tells the story the 0.5 second that split them could go either way. Aside  from the competition though, the exhaust fumes got into all of our heads and we raced round the track like proper petrol heads (except for Cynthia who spent most of her time in the tyres at the side of the track getting rescued by the staff).

At the end of our time there were smiles wider than anything I can think of at the moment and we are all buzzed out on adrenaline heading to bed dreaming of go karts and exhaust fumes.

Smiles

Cynthia

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