Derby Drop-Outs for Cystic Fibrosis

$285 donated

Given by 11 generous donors in 6 weeks

Raising money for Tauranga Cystic Fibrosis by doing the 2016 Spirited Women challenge, and helping our teammate with CF pay her entry fee.

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Our Tauranga-based team of ex-roller derby girls (women) are entering the 2016 Spirited Women challenge.

We've decided to fundraise for Tauranga Cystic Fibrosis as part of our challenge, and also to support our teammate Kristie Purton who lives with CF, by paying her entry fee for the challenge.

Our goal is to reach at least $500 - $250 for Kristie's entry fee and $250 for Tauranga Cystic Fibrosis. If we raise more than $500 we will donate everything above $250 to Tauranga CF. If we don't quite make it, we will still donate 50% of funds raised to Tauranga CF.

To clarify - the rest of our team are self-funding our own fees and don't benefit from this cause.

Look for extra opportunities on Facebook to sponsor us to do additional challenges beyond just completing the race itself - we are up for anything that helps us raise funds as long as we stay safe and injury free!

#spiritedwomen2016

#derbydropouts2016

#cysticfibrosis

www.spiritedwomen.co.nz

Image credit: Kristy Barker Photography

Derby Drop-Outs' involvement (page creator)

I'm the team captain for the Derby Drop-Outs 2016 team entering the Spirited Women challenge.

We did it! 13 April 2016

Ok, here were the stats:

Team name: ?#?derbydropouts?

Course: Veteran Short Course

Support crew: 2 amazing family members who gave up their day for us

Weather: persistent rain, with occasional downpours and thunderstorms

Estimated time to complete according to organisers: 3-6 hours

Actual time to complete: 13.75 hours

Number of trainings the team managed to do all together: 0, we trained in part groups most of the time!

Navigation skills going into challenge: not many, if any...

Times any member of the team had done an adventure race before: 0

Number of checkpoints (CPs) to collect: 27

Number of CPs we collected: 27, but discovered this morning that five we collected weren't ours! (see previous point on navigation...)

Times we cried during the course: 0

Times any member mentioned quitting: 0

Times we got lost and did unnecessary kms: more than we can count!

Number of marshalls that gave up their cold pizza and Tim Tams for us: 2

Hours spent navigating in the dark with a few bike lamps (unanticipated): 3

Team members with more than one serious medical condition: 1 amazing chick, Kristie Purton. Kristie we were so happy to have you on the team, you were amazing in your fitness and persistence, and you cracked the whip for us just as hard as Lisa!

Number of transponders lost: 1 - between the last checkpoint and the finish line, in a grass field. Number of people looking for our transponder with us - about 6.

Time taken to locate transponder - at least 45 minutes, but it was finally found and we crossed the finish line with smiles on our faces.

Exhausted, but elated, and still quite sore team members: 4, who are all looking forward to next year!

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