"I haven't stopped walking ... I tell you. If I'm not at one end of the stadium, I'm at the other," she said.
Admitting she was getting "maxed out", Mrs Karauria (28) was looking forward to a break next week. But her idea of time out was not probably that of most people - she was hankering for a couple of days shearing.
"A day's shearing is far more relaxing than being at the show all day," she said.
She narrowly missed out on selection for the New Zealand woolhandling team for this year's world championships.
"That was sore, but anyway," she said philosophically.
It would be fair to say that Mrs Karauria was almost born with a handpiece - or a broom - in her hand, as her family is synonymous with the industry.
Her father Dion Morrell is a master shearer and world record holder, while her mother Tina Rimene is a former world champion wool-handler.
There was a strong family flavour at the championships. Mr Morrell was competing and sorted the sheep required for the event, Ms Rimene, unable to compete due to shoulder surgery, was helping manage the woolhandlers, Mrs Karauria's sister Larnie Morrell was woolhandling, as was her stepmother Gabriela Schmidt-Morrell and half-sister Charis Morrell.
While it might have appeared inevitable Mrs Karauria would follow in their footsteps, she recalled how her parents were heartbroken when she made the choice. They would have preferred that she went to university, or did something else.
"The work is extremely hard. When you first start out, it's long days, it's hard work. I understand now where they were coming from, but I love it," she said.
If you had asked her what her preference was five or six years ago, it would have been woolhandling. Now shearing was her passion.
"Everybody told me you couldn't do both disciplines, so my dream was to prove everybody wrong," she said.
Mrs Karauria, whose husband Thomas is also a shearer, is a full-time shearer. Her highest lamb tally was 389 in a day and she had shorn 300 ewes.
