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My usual place RIGHT INFRONT OF THE FIRE.<\/p>\n

I don’t know about you, but I’m not the best person in winter.
\nI get cold. I moan.
\nI like to wear so many layers I don’t see my pasty skin for about 2 months. “Oh skin, I forgot about you. You’ve been hiding”.
\nI usually end up drinking far too much red wine but you know “it’s winter”. (I can see my mother shaking her head already)<\/span><\/span>So last year after another winter finding that the only conversations I was having were “what’s your source of heating”, “do you get pine or macrocarpa” (it’s a very important question) I decided I should plan my winter and all it’s delights.<\/div>\n
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There’s SO much going on here in winter that’s not just about being a dude and wearing your trousers around your undercrackers. So I’m getting right into it.Dates for you diary:
\nMay<\/span>10th Tour De Femme\u00a0<\/span><\/a>Women’s only ride-hardcore and none hardcore options. Now running from Cromwell. Get out the lycra ladies.<\/span>
\n 15th Upfront session.\u00a0Another great event from the guys at Fluid\u00a0<\/span><\/a>Communications. Ten minutes for each speaker from a range of backgrounds. Pictures, talk and\u00a0questions.\u00a0<\/span>
\n 24th Frontrunner Series\/ Active Qt<\/span><\/a> (Jacks Point) begins<\/span>
\n 5k and 10k running options. Run up some hills, throw up on your shoes, win a cupcake. It goes off.\u00a0<\/span>
\n 14th-24th Jesus Christ Superstar at the Memorial Centre<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span>
\n 31st May- Beginners Bread making at Rippon Hall<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

June<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

7th- Coronet<\/span><\/a>\u00a0Peak Ski field opens<\/span>
\n 20th Winter Festival<\/span><\/a> Begins. Parties, music, kids stuff, dogs and suitcases, men in knickers, people in the lake when they really should be drinking hot cocoa and lying by a fire.\u00a0<\/span>
\n 20th- Cardrona<\/span><\/a> Ski filed opens<\/span>
\n 21st- Remarkables <\/span><\/a>Ski field opens
\n<\/span>21st- Tedxwanaka\u00a0<\/span><\/a>Speakers, communities, food, drink and a whole lotta\u00a0cool in one room for one night. There’s only 100 tickets. Don’t be the one saying “i wish i had gone to that”.<\/span>
\n 21st- Frontrunner Golden mile. Run one mile through the streets of Queenstown\u00a0in front of tens of thousands of people all smiling and wondering what the hell you’re doing. And love it.\u00a0<\/span>
\n 27th- Treble Cone<\/span><\/a> opens<\/span>
\n 28th- Frontrunner series at Jacks Point<\/span><\/p>\n

JULY<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

5th-The Mule<\/span><\/a>. Grrrrr like a tiger and get over those monkey bars, crawl through that mud and help each other run across 10k’s\u00a0of terrain. Help!<\/span>
\n 4th-8th Wanaka Mtn film<\/span><\/a> festival<\/span>
\n 6th Queenstown Wedding fair<\/span><\/a>. Nothing to see, moving along \ud83d\ude09
\n10th-11th Queenstown mtn film<\/span><\/a> festival<\/span>
\n 19th- Frontrunner series at Jacks Point
\n26th- Peak to Peak<\/span><\/a>. Standard craziness of a race. Start at the top of Remarkables Ski field and ski, bike, run, kayak all the way to Coronet Peak. Muchos admiration to all.
\n<\/span>
\n Aug<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

30th Gay ski week<\/span><\/a> begins. Dancing, cabaret, skiing, parties and generally being fabulous. This has it all.\u00a0<\/span>
\n 30th- Frontrunner series at Jacks Point.<\/span>
\n 30th- Great Naseby Water Race. 100k, 80k or 50k running through the forests of Naseby. Bring it on!
\n<\/span>
\n Just a smattering of stuff on in the next couple of months. If none of that floats your onion, let me know of your events, going’s on and general tom-foolery that I can add here, or on any of these networks.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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