Te Araroa tramper Stella Pegram staying hydrated on the Tararua Range. Photo: Shaun Barnett/Black Robin Photography

You need much more water than you think

August 2023

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Drinking enough water is crucial to your performance in the outdoors. But how much and how often – and how have attitudes to hydration changed?

Wellington’s Te Kopahou Reserve is a place of steep hills, scrubby coastal headlands and numerous tracks. A few years ago I ran from my home, around the south coast, grinding up the 400m Tip Track climb almost to the observatory at Hawkins Hill, then down to Red Rocks and along the coast back home. Twenty […]
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