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A Weekend Warriors Waitangi Weekend in Wanaka
As any good cook will tell you, everything’s better with bacon. And the same is true of mountain biking. Just add a helicopter…. Waitangi Weekend in Wanaka is my favourite public holiday – the weather is usually settled (which means hot & dry in Central Otago) and there’s a... Read Post
- wanaka, Mountain Biking, Lake Wanaka
- 03 Mar 2015
- Geoff Marks
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Challenge Wanaka 2015 – Dougal Allan race report
Life as an elite athlete is temporary. Success comes and goes, but it will never stay. Never have I been more aware of this than the past two editions of the Speight’s Coast to Coast. For six years in a row I competed. A win in the two day, 3x runner-up and a 3rd (and an 8th) in the one day Read Post
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Volcom True To This – Chapter 4
Join Volcom on the rock and melt into the purity that lurks within the insanity. Despite the cameras, crowds and calamity, the ride remains the drive as the Volcom team dives deeper into the heart of the True To This movement. Read Post
- Surfing, Volcom, True to This, Skating, Hawaii
- 25 Feb 2015
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Wanaka’s Torpedo7 Adventure Race Team ready to make their hometown proud in the GODZone
Home town pride for the latest edition of Godzone - The all Wanaka Torpedo7 adventure race team Read Post
- 23 Feb 2015
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Introducing Team Next Generation, Godzone 2015
Team Next Generation is a promising young adventure racing team based in the South Island of New Zealand. This year the team features four Torpedo 7 athletes Tim Farrant, Elisha Nuttall, Emily Wilson and welcomes back Hamish Fleming. The team’s first race on the calendar is the much anticipated... Read Post
- 20 Feb 2015
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Currie and Simson defend Coast to Coast titles
Wanaka athletes Braden Currie and Jess Simson defended their Speight’s Coast to Coast titles, both winning in different but equally impressive ways. Currie raced from the front, pushing the pace in the first bike leg as part of an 11 man break to then get away from the leaders in the mountain run... Read Post
- 19 Feb 2015
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Norton and Jones take lead on day one of Coast to Coast
Hannah Norton and Nathan Jones know they have to pull out their best kayaking efforts to retain their leads built after day one of the Speights Coast to Coast two day event. Jones expressed surprise to find he was the first individual competitor to cross the finish line at Klondyke corner... Read Post
- 19 Feb 2015
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Happy early Coast to Coast winner
Winning the Giant Road bike as a spot prize leading up to the Coast to Coast was great surprise for Ian Fraser from Christchurch, and it has him even more excited about the event this weekend. “There is a real buzz around the event this year with the new categories opening the event up to... Read Post
- events, coast to coast
- 11 Feb 2015
- James Mulcahy
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World Champ enters Coast to Coast for first time in 14 years
World Champion Adventure Racer Nathan Fa’avae has entered the Speight’s Coast to Coast Longest Day event for the first time in 14 years. Read Post
- 03 Feb 2015
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Wahine on Waves
A brief write up by event organiser Fiona Duncan on the recent Wahine on Waves women's surf event as part of the Gisborne Sunplash Festival Read Post
- 29 Jan 2015