
Sam Rout
New Zealand trail and ultra runner from Whangārei (Northland), Merrell NZ performance team athlete who has raced UTA50 and the OCC at UTMB Mont-Blanc.
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Sep 29, 2026
60| Tekapo Race Reports from Sam Rout, Frances Redmond and Max Yanzick
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23:35DwayneHOST
Well,

Sam RoutGUEST
But then it like, if it, you know, say if we go down as a family, like all of us, you know, like mates and stuff, anyone can race distances.

Sam RoutGUEST
12k okay and i did the 16 and it was like different times so we could like one race finish look after the kid so it like works sometimes it could work like that where yeah that's very appealing you know like the longer distances started earlier and then the half started quite a bit later and that kind of just all obviously worked together which yes a lot of logistics but
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33:53MalHOST
what was the race like for you with Luke because obviously I think you were leading when I saw the videos yeah it wasn't

Sam RoutGUEST
really there wasn't any racing in the picture until the finish shoot pretty much like yeah I took a wrong turn maybe 4k to go and then I kind of looked back and he was we're kind of chatting we're at a distance where he could chat and he kind of said he'll Let me go, like, let me have the same gap again.
53| Sam Rout is off to race OCC at UTMB. and Mal's America update
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18:29DwayneHOST
What have you been doing generally week, week to week? Has your, your training

Sam RoutGUEST
uh mondays or rest days i've always had pretty much rest days on a monday um Tuesdays we probably get, with the boys, we normally get rolling hills, or like a double day.

Sam RoutGUEST
This week I did a double day, did rolling hills on morning, and then I got 40 minutes on the afternoon, so pretty easy double day.

Sam RoutGUEST
Wednesday, it's just, it'd either be a bike session or more time on feet, nothing too serious, like an hour or something.

Sam RoutGUEST
and yeah thursday yesterday i just had a bike easy spin and then this morning got nothing too serious i've got 45 minutes do like a nine and one so still do like a run walk system every week yeah just to it's just mainly with those easy days just to keep them easy to stop your pace going from 4.30s, which have been pretty easy to roll up to fours and then you get carried away, you know?
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28:13DwayneHOST
winterless north yeah is not not used to this kind of winter yeah um do you have a a fueling plan for the for the race

Sam RoutGUEST
uh not so much yet yeah i've been kind of thinking about it well i have been trialing knack for a little while now yeah knack's on course so um there's has been you know what there's got me some knack and yeah i've been down in this the drink mix for a good month or two now so yeah yeah we're practicing with that um i'll probably use that out on course rather than having flasks and empties and stuff like that yeah i'll probably just go from aid station aid station as as soon as i can and And just use that.

Sam RoutGUEST
And gels, I'll probably just put them in the flask, I think, and try to carry one the whole way.