Team Donegal Oil do their bit for Relay for Life at Kathmandu Coast to Coast NZ

The five Donegal men who travelled around the world to take part in one of the most gruelling challenges for charity put in huge efforts.

Team Donegal Oil was made up of Arthur McMahon (Milford), Managing Director Donegal Oil and Founder of Donegal Oil Foundation, Boyd Robinson and Gerard Callaghan from Letterkenny, Creeslough’s Shaun Stewart and George Kelly of Downings.

Together they took part in the world’s longest running multi-sports event – the Kathmandu Coast to Coast NZ – in aid of Relay for Life Donegal. The five competitors were joined by crew members Rory Kennedy from Letterkenny and Padrag McGinty of Downings.

They took part as individuals in the event and each of them undertook a 3 kilometre run, a 55 kilometre cycle, a 30.5 kilometre mountain run, a 17 kilometre cycle, an 800 metre run (gravel), a 67 kilometre kayak in the Waimakariri River and a final 70 kilometre cycle; total 243 kilometres.

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Stewart competed in the elite category and finished in a time of 13 hours 52 minutes and five seconds, with Robinson taking 17 hours, 55 minutes and two seconds. Callaghan and McMahon made it as far as the kayak and Kelly came in on the second run and were in good spirits afterwards.

The race started on the West Coast, at Kumara beach and traverses the width of the South Island, crossing the main divide where participants will reach over 1000 metres above sea level, before dropping down into the braided Waimakariri River, onto the finish line on the East coast at Christchurch’s New Brighton beach.