On the Hunt for Top Town Team

The Top Town show is making a return to New Zealand TV in December this year. It involves 15 teams from different towns around New Zealand competing in a range of fun challenges. Teams must have 12 members including a mix of male and female in different weight categories. I am a member of the Timaru team and this week there will be trials to determine the other members. Yesterday Timaru mayor Janie Annear and I had the pleasure of tipping cold buckets of water over Steve Kotua for a photo for the Timaru Herald. You can view the article online "On the Hunt for Top Town Team" here.

Latitude Magazine

This month I am featured on the front cover of Latitude Magazine's 2008 Spring Issue. There is a three page spread with a great article and plenty of pictures.

NZ Speedskater Second in World Series

The Timaru Herald has an article "NZ Speedskater Second in World Series" which can be viewed here online. It talks about the last WIC race in Berlin and my accomplishments this year.

I will be flying out of Switzerland today and heading back home to Timaru. I have around 24 hours worth of flying to get back to the land of the long white cloud.

Season Finale

They say the best is saved till last, well that certainly was the case with the final World Inline Cup race for the 2008 season. The Berlin WIC marathon was spectacular. With good weather this year there were spectators lining the streets of Berlin to see thousands upon thousands of skaters zoom or in some cases roll by. There was actually live coverage on a Berlin TV station which could be viewed by those awaiting the skaters at the finish line. There was atmosphere, crowds, thousands of skaters and press.


The Bont Wheels Team finished off a successful season with Cecilia winning in Berlin, myself 5th, Alexandra 6th and Tamara 15th.


The team also took out the top 3 in the World Inline Cup Individual Overall Ranking. Cecilia the overall WIC Champion, myself 2nd and Alexandra 3rd. Tamara who sacrifices herself in a lot of the races by doing the initial long lead out finished in the top 10 ending up 7th overall.

Individual WIC Overall
Photo - Niki Neck

To top off the season we also won the World Inline Cup Overall Team Ranking with over 1500 points to spare.

Overall WIC Team, Bont Wheels

Photo - Niki Neck


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Photo thanks to Niki Neck