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Help get Xan to the international speed skating competition in Li Shui City, China

  • Counting down - 5 sleeps!

      12 August 2015

    Counting down to leaving! Flights are booked and I leave Tuesday 18th August. I'll leave Nelson and fly down to Christchurch to meet up with the rest of the team, then we fly to Guangzhou, then another flight on to Wenzhou, then we have a bus ride to Li Shui. Mum and some of my friends will be coming to the airport to see me off. I'm feeling excited!

    I've finished most of my thank you video's and they are all over on my Facebook page. Thank you all so much! I just have a couple more to do, but I will get them done before I go!

    Keep an eye on my FB page and I'll post photos when I'm in China!

    Check out this video of one of our training sessions. We're using each other to hold us back as we practice our sprints.

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  • Check out this awesome video!

      26 July 2015

    Check out this awesome video filmed today at the rink where I train by Sam Collins from Eye Cloud aerial photography. He used a camera on a radio controlled drone that got some really cool shots! Thanks Sam!

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  • Yay! Target reached!

      26 July 2015

    Thank you all so much! You've helped me reach my target. Thanks to you all I'll be off to China next month and I couldn't have done it without you. Special shout out to Jay and Jilly and a big thank you to my amazing aunty Helen and uncles John and Pete who helped with the last big push!

    The fundraising continues and will finish in three weeks. Any money donated from now until the end of the campaign will all go to the Nelson Speed Skating club to help me and other families with travel to future events. Nelson is sending a team to Areas in Timaru and to the Nationals in Wanganui later this year.

    I have a busy week coming up. I'm doing more endurance training this week. I'm also being filmed today and interviewed tomorrow for a local news program. For those of you who donated $100+, I'll be producing your videos and I hope to have them out to you later this week.

    Thank you!

    Xan xxx

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  • Thank You!

      23 July 2015

    Two thirds of the way to my goal, in four days!

    Thank you so so so much to everyone that has donated money, its really humbling to look on the page and see the number keep going up ??.

    I would especially like to thank Nic and Manu xxx, Tanya and Trish, Zak and Harry, Andrea and Wurzel, Flightcell, Blue sky solutions (thanks mum), and the mystery guest donor that donated an amazing $1500??

    Whoever you are, I can't even explain how thankful I am for that. You have definitely made a huge difference.

    Keep an eye out on my Facebook page for your thank you videos coming soon.

    The training today: we did a 10 minute warm up, then worked on posture, starts and runs. After that we skated 10k with sprint laps. Tomorrow I'm going out with a friend who will be chasing me on a bike and we're going to do 15k. I'll be doing some filming for the videos too.

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