Angus Bradshaw (61), of Gibbston, shows off his battle
scars midway through the Motatapu 50km high country
mountain bike race at the weekend. Mr Bradshaw finished in
3hr 51min 40sec despite falling from his bike. Photo by
Laurie Martin.
Arrowtown book buyer Miranda Spary continues her
regular column about her recommendations for a good read and
life as she sees it...
It was so lovely being at Millbrook on Sunday morning
watching a beautiful girl poledancing, and a muscley guy
lying on a bed being acupunctured.
And the Zumba class on the putting green ... the bit where
they all do that trembling thing with their bums was quite,
quite extraordinary.
No wonder organiser Frith Grimmond had such a huge smile on
her face - everyone was having a ball at the first Life
Synergy Expo.
There were hundreds of people looking around wondering
whether to get their tongues mapped or their fortunes told.
There were lectures on organic vegetable gardening,
opportunities to sponsor battery hens, demonstrations on
cooking all sorts of deliciousness - thanks for organising
such a great event.
Among all the startling things to see and do, the biggest
shock to many was seeing my darling join the yoga class on
the putting green.
He and Dardy Wallace have heard the rumours about what yoga
does for your golf and came along to give it a go.
They did brilliantly, but I am still not sure what prompted
my darling to come along. I promise that no instruments of
torture were used. Unless just being married to me counts.
A lot of the athletes and non-athletes finishing the Motutapu
on Saturday looked as if they had experienced their own bit
of torture.
It was really exciting being down at the finish line watching
them all come in.
We were waiting for Willy Roberts and Baz Smith, who we
thought might win the much tougher version of the already
brutal 42km Motutapu race.
It seems their new improved training programme, which had
included a two-day bender at Josie's 50th, wasn't as
successful as they might have liked, and got them a fifth
place.
I felt quite sporty hanging around all that sweat and lycra
and hoped people might think I was an athlete as well. I
didn't fool anyone.
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