Wilderness Trail Ride
On the 26th of May 2026 room Kea and five parent helpers including my dad set off on an amazing adventure from karoro school to Kumara central park.It was fun to see everybody pushing themselves and others to do their best as well as all the extraordinary sites on the way.
We started off at our school and worked ourselves down to Mill Creek just down by our school and biked along through Paroa. The track through to Paroa was full of flax but once we got through past the sheep, goats and horses we finally met the shady bush which made it much easier to bike through. Although I did love the part through the flax and grass in the sun, my favourite part was definitely when we went right under the bridge on the smooth soft track and zoomed as fast as we could going right down with just enough speed to get us back up again. The Taramakau part was a big sigh of relief with soft tracks, speedy roads and bridges all the way down to Tramline road were stopped for a snack and to excite ourselves for making it over a quarter of the way there.
Once we were off onto the next part we were energized and even more excited and ready to take on our next task. I somehow managed to make it up to the front which was a lot easier as long as everybody stuck to the left. When we were through the bush part we started off onto a long strait in the sun which was where everybody started to combine and bump into everyone and if anybody swerved or braked everybody was affected. Once we finally got our rhythm we were faced with our next challenge which was going over the bridge. Although we’ve already been over countless bridges so far this bridge was different. It was a deep, deep bottom less pit that was super fun to bike over just as long as I focused on peddling up instead of falling down. Once we were over the bridge we reached only four km to go on speed down through the gravel and right down to the reassuring Kumara park.
The way back from Kumara felt faster than it did when we were just walking to the trail. We zoomed up the hill and rewinded through the day enjoying every fun moment all over again thinking over all our challenges and strengths and building up excitement for when we finally get back to school. Some of my challenges for this ride were definitely coping with seat discomfort and managing to stay on my seat without being in complete pain. It was also very difficult to get in rhythm and keep it flowing right till the end but with 20 of us all with a different pace it was clearly impossible. Overall this ride was challenging fun and had many fun sites and activities on the way.

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