Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Donations donations donations

Donations for my cause can be made here
http://www.fundraiseonline.co.nz/KatrinWalbert/

This money will go directly to Mark Inglis' limbs4all and I promise, not to the Kat is addicted to coffee fund :-)

Thanks for your help!

Kat

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Ryders is on board!!!


Woooooaaaahoooooo

Thanks to Julie, our persistence and Brent Martin we've got some sponsorship from Ryders Eyewear towards the race! Wiiiiiiiiicked. More on those guys soon, check out the webpage for cool sunnies....www.ryderseyewear.com
We're on the hunt for more support, watch this space, but in the meantime, cher bro to Ryders for giving us their support!!!


Saturday, February 14, 2009

Team Mullet races the Whitestar Intrigue

So, we survived the big weekend of training and after an easy week and lot's of sleeping it was time to hit the road for a trip up the the Coromandel for the Whitestar Intrigue Weekend. Dave 'Thumbs up' G, Sarah 'the machine' P-C and Kat 'you talk to much when racing' W hit the road on Friday for a whole weekend of MTBing - on Saturday's menu was a Points race (Timetrial, Crit, Hill Climb and Downhill), followed by the main course of a 60km MTB race over the hills of Coromandel on Sunday.

The highlight of the trip was Sarah wondering out loud if we would be able to use someone's mullet to get our tentpegs into the ground...the picture of a headbanging mullet over a tentpeg did not leave us for the rest of the next two days...
Fortunatley the camping ground was soft enough for us not asking anyone for their mullet and we got our tents up just before dark, so that we could sit back in our chairs with a beer and watch other late arrivers struggling to put their tents up in the dark. Ah the joy of Schadenfreude...

Saturday was a day full of different activities - you could choose between a 3h or a 6h Orienteerieng event or the Points Series. I'm a pro elite in getting lost, so the Points Series it was. We had to do a 6km Timetrial, a 10km Criteriumrace and in the afternoon we were off to a hill climb and a downhill race. Wicked concept, hang out time with other people and lots of cowshit action on the timetrial...the machine had a wicked day out and won two of the races and Dave won the best cornering action with thumbs up! After pricegiving it was gametime - a rather interesting mix of games between some of the teams, the banging one (pic) went on for quite some time, I think they really enjoyed it...

Day two was again full of options, we chose the 60km version of sightseeing the Coromandel. Again, a wicked day in the saddle. The machine powered away but her i-drive broke, so she had to pull out and doddle home, and the Thumb and I played tag team for some time until he managed to to break away...ah the testosterone...
All in all a great weekend and highly recommended - two great days of racing and playing on your bike, thumbs up!!