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Godzone 2016 – Team Next Generation
Aside from our Torpedo7 Adventure Race Team, we’re stoked to support our number of our athletes as they take on the Godzone Adventure Race in a couple of weeks time. Team Next Generation is one such team and can lay claim to having the youngest combined age of any team entered in the race.... Read Post
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Athlete Blogs: Matty Graham – Tour Aotearoa 2016
It’s about the journey, not the destination. This was something I pondered long and hard over the 3000 km Tour Aotearoa course. If you were to choose a destination to travel to, Bluff would not be high on my list but it was certainly a place I was looking forward to reaching. Likewise, the... Read Post
- adventure, aotearoa, Bike, New Zealand, nz, solo, tour, unsupported
- 21 Mar 2016
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Fin & Cam’s Excellent Japanese Adventure
Finley and Campbell Melville Ives are nine year old twins from Wanaka, New Zealand. Fin is a freeskier and Cam is a snowboarder. Fin & Cam live and breathe snow and given the opportunity they would always choose a Northern Hemisphere winter above summer holidays at home. This is about their... Read Post
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Loic Bruni secures second Crankworx DH victory in New Zealand
The New Zealand fans were going wild as the Crankworx Rotorua Downhill presented by iXS unfolded Sunday afternoon with three top Kiwi riders making a play for a solid home-crowd podium, until Frenchman Loic BRUNI showed up. The victor during the inaugural Crankworx Rotorua downhill last year, Bruni... Read Post
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Trail Shoes to Chain Rings by Whitney Dagg
Trail Shoes to Chain Rings. The transition from competitive trail running to XC Mountain Bike racing. Read Post
- 11 Mar 2016
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Athlete Blogs: Kate Fluker – The Pioneer
Find stunning, find character, find welcome. What the Pioneer promised and what the Pioneer delivered. It has taken me a while to get to this write up on The Pioneer because to be honest it took a while to remember and realise what exactly we had just accomplished!! 7 days of racing, 569km, 15,273m... Read Post
- Bike, lagardere, mtb, New Zealand, pioneer, south island, stage race
- 03 Mar 2016
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Athlete Blogs: Dougal Allan – Challenge Wanaka 2016
Improvement keeps me excited. After 6x Coast to Coast races I had stopped seeing it, so it was time to move on. The plan for the 2014 summer was to chill a bit and enjoy a summer not spent training for Coast. That was when the seed was planted. Mike Jones from Clif Bar, SmartWool, […] Read Post
- athlete blog, Bike, challenge, challenge wanaka, Lake Wanaka, race, run, swim, T7 Athlete, tri
- 24 Feb 2016
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Crankworx propels Kiwi’s onto mountain biking world stage
Back for its second year, the Crankworx World Tour returns with a new event and even more opportunities for New Zealand athletes over the five action-packed days of gravity mountain biking. Both professional and amateur Kiwi athletes will have the opportunity to take their riding to the next level... Read Post
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Athlete Blogs: Danial Bremner – Journey to Coast to Coast
In August 2015 I decided it was time to get an entry in for the Coast to Coast. It would be a good excuse to do some extra training and everyone I bumped into who knew I was a Multisporter would ask me if I had done the coast. Putting the entry in for any […] Read Post
- athlete, athletes, coast to coast, multisport, race
- 22 Feb 2016
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Sam Clark grabs first Coast to Coast win
Sam Clark backed up his pre-race confidence to run away from the field to claim his first Coast to Coast men’s World Championship longest day title today. Clark, who was second behind three-time defending champion Braden Currie last year, went into the 33 kilometre mountain run with 15... Read Post
- 16 Feb 2016