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WESTERN NEWS Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />
Tuesday <strong>October</strong> [Edition 2 datE] <strong>2018</strong> 17 3<br />
SPORTS<br />
continuing education<br />
Night classes<br />
at Papanui<br />
High School<br />
BIG MOMENT: Burnside High School cyclist Erin Downie will represent New<br />
Zealand at the Oceania track cycling championships in Adelaide next week.<br />
PHOTO: RICHARD MCBREARTY<br />
Burnside teen on<br />
track to make NZ<br />
As the weather gets warmer and the<br />
evenings get longer it is the ideal time to<br />
get out of the house and learn something<br />
new and meet some new people by taking<br />
part in one of the wide range of nightclasses<br />
on offer at Papanui High School for Term 4<br />
beginning from Tuesday 23 <strong>October</strong>.<br />
From Art to Yoga and everything in<br />
between we are sure regardless of your<br />
age or interest you will find something<br />
to tempt you. Classes at Papanui High<br />
School are held in a warm, friendly relaxed<br />
environment and our tutors are supportive<br />
and well qualified in their chosen fields.<br />
One of our new courses on offer for Term<br />
4 is an introductory course in Traditional<br />
Chinese Massage (Tui-na). Traditional<br />
Chinese Massage is part of Traditional<br />
Chinese Medicine (TCM) and this course<br />
will cover Therapeutic Acupressure<br />
Massage using Traditional Chinese<br />
Medicine and practice. You will learn the<br />
efficacy of acupuncture points, how to<br />
find the correct acupuncture points and<br />
how to use these points to relieve and treat<br />
pain along with learning different massage<br />
techniques. This course is being taught by<br />
Chuhua Gao and will be held at Papanui<br />
High School on a Tuesday night 7-8 pm for<br />
6 weeks starting on 23 <strong>October</strong> at a cost of<br />
$80.<br />
For further information and enrolment<br />
in this or any of our Term 4 courses please<br />
visit our website on www.papanui.school.<br />
nz or email rpb@papanui.school.nz or<br />
telephone our office on 3520701<br />
debut in Adelaide<br />
• By Jacob Page<br />
BURNSIDE HIGH School<br />
track cyclist Erin Downie<br />
gets by with a little help<br />
from her friends and<br />
family.<br />
The 16-year-old,<br />
who lives in Avonhead,<br />
has been named in the<br />
New Zealand track cycling<br />
team for the first time.<br />
She will compete at the<br />
Oceania track cycling<br />
championships in Adelaide<br />
from <strong>October</strong> 11-13.<br />
Erin competes in both<br />
road and track cycling<br />
events, and started her<br />
competitive journey on<br />
a $300 road bike that<br />
her mum Lee purchased<br />
second-hand.<br />
As she grew to love<br />
track cycling, her dad<br />
Chris found a bike frame<br />
and built the bike she still<br />
uses today with bits and<br />
pieces he found on auction<br />
sites.<br />
“I wouldn’t be in this<br />
position without my<br />
parents,” she said.<br />
“A lot of my time is<br />
taken up with training so a<br />
lot of the financial burden<br />
falls on them.”<br />
Erin is a former<br />
Canterbury age-group<br />
Erin Downie<br />
middle distance runner,<br />
cross-country athlete and<br />
footballer, but now her<br />
time is spent solely on the<br />
bike seat.<br />
“I tried to do all of them<br />
when I first started as an<br />
11-year-old but, as my<br />
love of cycling grew, I gave<br />
them up,” she said.<br />
“People used to look at<br />
my bike and do a doubletake<br />
because it’s not a big<br />
brand bike obviously. The<br />
whole Canterbury track<br />
cycling community has<br />
been so helpful in getting<br />
me here.<br />
“I’ve had to borrow a<br />
lot of different gear and<br />
everyone has been really<br />
accommodating.”<br />
Erin said with Hornby’s<br />
Denton Park velodrome<br />
being outdoors and “quite<br />
shaded”, it often meant she<br />
was unable to train on it<br />
during winter because it<br />
was too wet.<br />
With the best track<br />
options being in<br />
Invercargill or Cambridge,<br />
she has done a lot of her<br />
preparation on the road,<br />
or in her garage on a<br />
stationary bike.<br />
“I think I’ve done quite<br />
well to make the team<br />
considering the best<br />
option to train is eight<br />
hours away,” she said.<br />
Erin doesn’t know what<br />
events she will compete<br />
in, but is hopeful she will<br />
get a chance to race in<br />
the under-19 individual<br />
pursuit.<br />
“That will be a good<br />
level for me to test where<br />
I’m at and, if I could get<br />
a personal best, that’d be<br />
great.”<br />
Erin said she still<br />
had ambitions to ride<br />
internationally on both<br />
the track and road and did<br />
not want to commit to one<br />
discipline just yet.<br />
From Art to<br />
Yoga and<br />
everything<br />
in between