24 hours at Ruapuna

So We have booked Powerbuilt Raceway at Ruapuna Park here in christchurch for 24 hours.

Sunday 25th September.

All skaters (long, short, inline, quad, derby) are invited to come along and have a skate.

Solo, team, 10km or 100. Cruising or setting a record. We have the track for 24hours so let's make good use of it.

Still in the early stages of planning.

Sponsors are needed. Water, useful foods, skate kit that can be raffled, spot prizes for fancy dress or furthest travelled.

Website to come soon, but for now hit up Garden City Sessions on Facebook.

nat

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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by haggy on May 27, 2011 at 0:14

Hmmm, this sparks my interest!

Maybe time to bash out a 24-hour charity push... Or a 100k dash...

Keep us posted Nat - look forward to hearing more. Would definitely be up for coming over for this!

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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by Grits on May 27, 2011 at 8:28

Sounds like a great idea!
I will be interested in seeing how it goes.

One of the longboarders in the ville had a similar idea using part of the townsville 400 track but wasn't sure about it so never went down that path.

Great work!

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Permalink Reply by Robbo on May 27, 2011 at 8:53

Haggy's 24hrs of Hell

You could blog about it mate, get apple to sponsor you with an iphone and you could tweet the whole distance.

35min: just puked up my oporto chicken burger
54mins: Just drank my 9th bottle of poweraide, only 2 bottles left, must conserve poweraide.
76mins: Why is this phone asking me to update itunes account?
87mins: Just got call from girlfriend, need to be home by thursday night for drinks at Kuleto's or don't bother coming home.
104mins: Bung knee is starting to cave in, must maintain focus only 1336mins to go....

haggy said:

Hmmm, this sparks my interest!

Maybe time to bash out a 24-hour charity push... Or a 100k dash...

Keep us posted Nat - look forward to hearing more. Would definitely be up for coming over for this!

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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by haggy on May 27, 2011 at 9:51

156mins: Stopped to take a piss and tripped and fell over in my own pool of urine. Now my left leg and shoe are wet and stink of piss - awesome...

213mins: Girlfriend texts me to say she's having dinner with her ex, who I think she still has feelings for...feeling low.

235mins: Hop calls, tells me Jacko won a race in Eastern Europe and is partying with cute hungarian chicks. Where would I rather be...here, of course!

288: Left leg really stinks of piss now. Other skaters staying clear of me...

335mins: Have been reviewing skate memories. Like the time I ollied off some stairs and landed spread-eagled over the nose of my upright board - not fun! The area between nuts and ringer was bruised for weeks...

378mins: Just fell off...wheel caught on a nut which I swear a squirrel dropped on the road as I was coming around the corner. Squirrel turned around and looked at me as I hit the pavement, the little fucker was laughing!

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Permalink Reply by nat 'wafflesole' on May 27, 2011 at 14:59

Haggy, would be great to have you come visit.

I tell you this, i was pretty much hallucinating after the 150 miler we did in the uk. This is going to be even beter cos there will be roller derby girls skating!!

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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by haggy on May 27, 2011 at 16:29

What - 150miles! Holy lord, that's a distance all right...!

All right, time to get into some training...! derby girls definitely sound like a bonus...

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Permalink Reply by nat 'wafflesole' on May 29, 2011 at 8:39

Lots of people will just be coming along during daylight hours just to skate. some roller derby girls are talking about relaying the whole 24 hours. And some want to go as far as they can.

Current nz record is something like 132 miles.

www.ultraskater.com

nat