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#131 Challenge Wanaka 2021 Race report

  • by Melanie Ryding
  • Posted on 20/02/202120/02/2021
  • amputation

This was the big one. The race I entered on 2 October 2020, the day I found out I would have to lose my left leg below the knee. Here’s how it went. PS watch […]

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#130 ‘A’ race time: Challenge Wanaka the day before!

  • by Melanie Ryding
  • Posted on 19/02/202120/02/2021
  • amputation

Although this will be my third event, post surgery, it is actually the one I entered BEFORE the amputation and is the largest of all the events I am entered for so far. Until today, […]

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#128 Covid announcement: will Challenge Wanaka go ahead?

  • by Melanie Ryding
  • Posted on 17/02/202118/02/2021
  • amputation

As New Zealand is back on a knife edge today.. waiting for the government announcement on whether the restrictions will continue or be lifted.. will sporting events go ahead this weekend? How are the general […]

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#125 Instructed Rest day: so I went to the Burt Munro Street races!

  • by Melanie Ryding
  • Posted on 14/02/2021
  • amputation

I have physio tomorrow and then work, so I have been instructed to have an easy day. Do you know how hard that was for me!? So I had a wheelchair day – and went […]

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#119 Taking a prosthetic to the pool… plus what is Waitangi Day?

  • by Melanie Ryding
  • Posted on 08/02/202108/02/2021
  • amputation

I’m trying to ditch the wheelchair as much as possible, as you know. Also, for those in the rest of the world, did you know that it is Waitangi Day today… and do you know […]

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