Letty is right into her endurance races. She has completed a variety of different running and mountain biking events. A few that stand out to her is the Hawea Epic which she has completed twice (160km mountain bike endurance race). Also last year and the year before she did a 2 day mountain biking trip on the old ghost road and she will do that again this christmas. It is a 115km mountain biking course.
Letty is part of my original boot camp crew and it has been great to see how she has improved over the years and had the courage and confidence to join in on all these endurance races. She also loves her Crossfit mainly because as she puts it “It’s probably one of the only sports where guys don’t see a girl as lesser, they see you as equals, it’s about effort rather than gender”.
Letty is a teacher at Taieri College and last year they went to Africa with World Challenge. They went to Kenya and Tanzania for a month. It included a massive tramp through some fantastic countryside and they helped build a school. Make sure to ask Letty about this amazing trip when you see her again:)
Letty’s big goal is competing in the Coast to Coast 2018 so there is no doubt you will be seeing her training hard.
Christian
Friday 30/09/16
WOD: 12 min Time cap
Complete 5 rounds of:
15 STOH 40/30kg
12 Alt pistols
9 TTB
Max Muscle Ups in remainder of the time
Finisher: 3 sets of
30m Walking Lunges
100m KB Overhead Carry (50m left/50m right)
Letty has been my team mate for many events too – namely The Great New Zealand Adventure Race – where we slogged our guts out to summit Mt Mole on the Southern Alps, mountain biked 100s of kms in the dark, at minus 5 degrees with injuries, carried and shoved our bikes up waterfalls , over rocks, cut to threads by spear grass and succeeded. Spring Challenge x 3, 100km Oxfam Race and Motatapu – always relentless, never gives up and always a smile on her face, always up for a challenge. Her lovely English upbringing comes thru and keeps us on our toes…but I have heard a few “words” under the breath when times were tough and there have been a few of those times. A great friend and am looking forward to racing with her again one day soon.