Thursday 18th November 2010

• Visit Kay's page at WaikatoDHB

This morning we discovered that Kay did not make it. Now she will never see the roses we collected for her.

Though Kay is no stranger to us, the following lines by James K Baxter, seem to have many different shades of relevance at a time like this:

Upon the upland road,
Ride easy stranger.

Surrender to the sky
Your heart of anger.

But Kay, how we will all miss you.
Jeff saw you recently when you stepped out of the van, smiling as usual, at the K2 ride in the Coromandel. He gave you a hug. That is now a precious memory for him.

A MEMORIAL RIDE has been organised by Morrinsville Wheelers to commemorate Willie Muller , Mark Fergusson, and now Kay Wolfe. The ride is scheduled for Tuesday evening, 23 November, meeting at Hangawera Rd (off the Morrinsville /Tahuna Rd, just out of town on the left) at 6pm and riding 6.30pm. This is a neutralised ride and members of all cycling clubs are most welcome.
Full details of the ride are available here on the Morrinsville Wheelers website:

Monday 15th November 2010

This page is for our friend Kay Wolfe who is in hospital today, critically injured after a car ploughed into the bunch she was riding with yesterday.

I have been growing roses for few years now, though not showing much aptitude. I always dreamed of being able to go out into my garden and bring in a huge armful of various kinds of roses. This morning I was just about to go out and pick the usual rose or two I like to have beside my computer as I work each day, when I received an email from my cycling friend Dell Raynes telling me that Kay was the one who was injured in yesterday's horrific crash in which two of our male Waikato cyclists died.

The two who died were Wilhelm Muller (71) and Mark Fergusson (46). I do not personally know these men but they were cyclists of the Waikato so we value them as we value all our local cycling friends. We never want to hear about this happening to any of us. I'm sure I speak for every Waikato cyclist when I say, our thoughts are with the families of Wilhelm and Mark today.

I went out to get the roses anyway, thinking these roses will be for Kay. Would you believe, the bushes were dripping with roses and for the first time in all these years of rose-growing, I came in with the arms-ful I've always dreamed of. It was as though Mother Nature was saying, “For Kay, I will give you all these.” While I was gathering them, I cried for these three cyclists, the two who died and my friend Kay, who has lived to fight on.

I know there is no place for flowers in intensive care wards, so I decided to make a web page for Kay and put Kay's roses up here where all her many cycling friends can see them, and where soon she will be able to see them for herself, still looking as fresh as they look today. Please as you look at them try to dream up the heavenly smell they are sending drifting around me as I work on this "Get-well" page for her.

The photo above shows Kay as we know her so well, ready to jump on her bike and go for it, in the Taupo Day-night Thriller. Today we are all hoping she is going to pull through and get back to us the way we remember her, though from what I hear, things are not looking good for her right now.

She is a good friend, a great team-member, an expert rider, a wonderful mother and a friendly warm-hearted lady who is much loved and valued, by all her dozens of close cycling friends in the Waikato. Fight hard Kay. This could be your hardest ride, and I'm sure that superb fitness and strength you work so hard to maintain, will help to get you through.

The photo below show the roses I picked this morning whose smell is even more beautiful than their colours.

Tui Allen, on behalf of Kay's team-members,
Rachel Algar and Annetta Tegel and all other Waikato cyclists

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