Official charity
The Spirited Women Adventure Race has formed a relationship with PINC & STEEL – Cancer Rehabilitation Trust to help raise funds for the cause. The PINC & STEEL Cancer Rehabilitation Programs provide individualized, prescribed rehabilitation to women and men diagnosed with cancer; helping them heal as well as possible, and function at optimal levels through every stage of their treatment and recovery. They are specifically designed to help maximize recovery, regain physical and emotional strength, improve body confidence and control. Click here to see how easy it is for your team to fund-raise and be in to win.
Official coaches
Dr. James Kuegler (Chiropractor) has come on board to offer his coaching expertise to Spirited Women in the lead-up to the event.
Rachel Smith of Navigation North will be running some skills based navigation and adventure racing clinics ahead of the 2019 Whaiora Spirited Women – All Women’s Adventure Race.
Official nutritionist
Dr. Stacy Sims, MSC, PhD, is an Environmental Exercise Physiologist and Nutrition Scientist working as a Senior Research Fellow at Waikato University’s Adams High Performance Centre. Her research delves into understanding sex differences of heat and/or altitude stress, recovery, genetics, and nutrition to moderate adaptive responses for performance. She is also the author of ROAR, a comprehensive, physiology-based nutrition and training guide specifically designed for women. “Women are not small men” says Sims. She encourages women to “Stop eating and training like one.”
Sims is an athlete herself. Her research stems from her own difficulties with gastrointestinal distress while competing as an Ironman triathlete and elite road racer. In the lead up to Whaiora Spirited Women 2019, Stacy will be sharing her wealth of experience and knowledge about optimum hydration and nutrition during sport to support competitors toward the best possible performance on race day.
Official adventure motivator
Senka Radonich aka nzadventuregirl
After losing her mum to pneumonia suddenly, Senka woke up to the fact that life can be taken away at any moment, so why waste it. Setting out to make her life one giant adventure doing stuff she freaking loves she established Adventure Girls which is all about getting women out to do cool sh*t. Whether it’s getting you out adventuring and stretching yourself in trying new things or working with you one on one in the personal coaching space, Senka will be all over it like white on rice.
Adventure Girls – Kick ass adventures for women
Have ever wanted to try surfing, mountain biking, or 4 wheel driving? What about dirt biking, snowboarding or rock climbing? How about stand up paddling, gun shooting or tree adventures? Join a bunch of super rad women, like you, who are up for getting out and trying new adventures for the first time.
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