Update from the USA - Sarah Walker
Ihave been in America for a couple of weeks already and have been making the most of the experience. We (Ken Cools - coach, Trent Woodcock and myself) started by flying to LAX with a drive down to San Diego where we joined the kiwi guys already over here (Marc Willers, Kurt James, Kurt Pickard,...
BMX in Denmark - Sarah Walker
Arrivedinto Denmark on Monday to cold weather. We had one rental car between 11 of us (as the track was a 5minute ride away from the hotel) so everyone jumped into a couple of taxi's and the car and headed to the hotel. When we arrived, we just got settled in and headed down to dinner. The...
Italy Update - Sarah Walker
Wellwe got to Italy after a successful trip to the Chula Vista (American Supercross) track and arrived to beautiful weather. The sun was shining and the sky was blue and it just had a feel good atmosphere. This was after arriving after midnight to the hotel as we had a bit of confusion with the...
USA Update from BMXer Sarah Walker
Sothe first part of our overseas journey went really well. We were originally meant to head to Holland to train with the Dutch team but due to the Volcano Eruption in Iceland, we had to stay put in New Zealand for a few extra days. Ended up heading to America to train in the sun and get a couple...
2010 BMX NZ Nationals - Sarah Walker
Well,Nationals are over for another year and it was a weekend to be enjoyed by pretty much everyone! The weather was perfect, the track was fast and the atmosphere was awesome with racing being so exciting to watch. Friday practice went really well. I got the track dialed in and had my first go at...
Pre Easter Update from Sarah Walker
Beentraining hard, getting faster and jumping some big jumps lately. Been doing personal bests in the gym and jumping guys pro sections. Looking forward to going overseas to test out the international competition! Also, jumped out of a plane, went white water rafting, swung off the top of the...
Where's New Zealand's Sarah Walker been?
SarahWalker, Elite Women's BMXer from New Zealand ended up a DOUBLE WORLD CHAMPION at the 2009 UCI BMX World Championships in Adelaide, Australia, and then due to bad injury to her hand at the South Africa round of the UCI SX World Cup missed the end of the UCI BMX Supercross season, in which she...
Double World Champion - Sarah Walker
Worlds: Build Up Training leading up for the Worlds went really well with the small exception of a flu a few weeks out. After racing in Europe for a month, I got back to New Zealand and got some really good track sessions in at Rotorua and also improved a lot in the gym over the two months leading...
Sarah goes on 'What Now'
It's been a while since my last update but here are the last few. I was on What Now this morning and had heaps of fun. 'What Now' - 21st June What a huge morning! Up at 5.30am to head down to the studio for hair and make up quickly followed by having the mic and ear piece on. As that was...
Sarah Walker Reports on the Supercross from Denmark
Well the weather hasn't been great but it was nice to us all and the rain held off this afternoon for scheduled practice. The Men's A Group was first with Marc, Matt and Kurt. By the looks of how they were flowing through the track, it was going to be good. As girls practice rolled around, we were...
