Lynn "Red" Paterson - Paddling around New Zealand

The Endurance Asia Podcast

Lynn Paterson, aka “Red”, is the first person to kayak around the circumference of New Zealand in a single expedition. It took her more than 400 days and she covered just shy of 6000 kilometres!

You can find out more, follow the journey as it unfolded and buy Red’s book, at her website: https://www.redznzjourney.com/. Lynn is also on Instagram at www.instagram.com/redznzjourney/?hl=en

In our chat with Lynn about her incredible journey, we talk about a variety of people, including ocean rowers Paul Caffyn, Tim Taylor and Scott Donaldson, and discuss various places along her route including:

• Stewart Island/Rakirua

• The Coramandel coastline

• Heaphy Track

• Cook Strait

Lynn also mentions a bike route from the north to south of New Zealand: it’s the Tour Aotearoa.

Scott mentions Matt Fitzgerald’s book ’How Bad Do You Want It?’

Podcast hosted by Ultra Endurance enthusiasts Scott Pugh and Ric Stockfis.