Hi my name is Maria Cleland, I am married to Graeme and we have two children Rebecca aged 12 and Jeremy aged 10.   I have lived here in Glenmassey for the past 15 years.   I was born in England and came to New Zealand 23 years ago to find the most beautiful country I had ever seen and then was blessed to settle in one of these places.

Graeme has lived here all his life and enjoys the great outdoors farming this sheep and beef farm.   He used to love down hill bike racing before it was invented, but then discovered when you put an engine on it you didn’t have to push it to the top of the hill again!!!!   Seeing the technology of the bikes available now he may have to revisit his push biking days.

Over the past eleven years we have had many friends come and mountain bike on our farm and enjoy the special place we live.    We have always wanted to share with others our beautiful spot but due to our farming operation this has made it difficult. 

We believe we have found a way to achieve this by creating the Black Stump Adventure Ride/The Killer and now Hard-n Up 6/12hr.   Our goal is to create a few different events that will cause minimal disturbance to the farming operation.  

This event was created for this winter 2010, but due to the extreme wet conditions, we have had to postpone until next April 2011.  We hope you can all make it and hope that you have a great time and look forward to all your comments.