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    CROSSING THE LINE

    Apr 01, 2019 5 minutes

    It would have to be called a scandal. Maybe not one that has rocked the trail running fraternity as deeply as the mainstream media coverage has suggested but certainly it has cast the sport in a less than favourable light.

    Perry Newburn, the amiable long-distance veteran, spread Christmas cheer in November last year when he broke the record for running the length of New Zealand.

    Newburn, raising money for Idea Services Charity, set out to break the near 40-year-old record set by Siggy Bauer and when he pulled into Bluff 18 days, 8 hours and 42 minutes after he left the top of the North Island, he posted on Facebook that he had been successful by 19 minutes.

    He was understandably tired. Exhausted. Frazzled, even, and perhaps that’s why he was willing to claim a record he had no

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