Nor'West News: February 07, 2017
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NOR’WEST NEWS Tuesday <strong>February</strong> 7 <strong>2017</strong> 5<br />
ews<br />
From Super Rugby to City2Surf<br />
ashion<br />
Gardening<br />
otoring<br />
asty Bites<br />
• By Gordon Findlater<br />
AT THIS time of the year former<br />
Super Rugby player Ged Robinson<br />
is normally getting towards peak<br />
fitness ahead of a busy season.<br />
This year he’s all about keeping<br />
Christchurch well fed with what<br />
he calls a Kiwi take on Italian style<br />
pizza.<br />
Fed by Ged will be one of many<br />
tasty and nutritious options<br />
available for those needing refuelling<br />
following The Star City2Surf. The<br />
former Crusader, whose mobile<br />
wood fire pizza oven is regularly<br />
based outside<br />
Il Magro<br />
espresso bar<br />
in Papanui,<br />
will be<br />
awaiting<br />
runners at the<br />
finish area of<br />
next month’s<br />
event.<br />
Outside<br />
of rugby<br />
Robinson<br />
has always had a love for food. After<br />
recently hanging up the boots he’s<br />
now had more time to concentrate<br />
on that love.<br />
“I’m a front rower so I love food.<br />
I moved to Melbourne and played<br />
over there for three years. My wife<br />
and I spent a lot of time checking out<br />
the city and enjoying the food, that<br />
probably fired up the taste buds even<br />
more,” said Robinson.<br />
His first experiments with pizza<br />
came during his time while playing<br />
for the Melbourne Rebels, regularly<br />
feeding teammates on his own<br />
creations. His passion for fuelling a<br />
squad has grown ever since.<br />
After spending a decade as a<br />
professional rugby player Robinson<br />
knows all about nutrition, something<br />
he’s taken to the oven.<br />
“Italian style pizza has really high<br />
quality meat and really low in sugar<br />
and salt. I do make brown flour<br />
pizza dough as well as the traditional<br />
white. It’s all really good quality,<br />
non-processed food,” said Robinson.<br />
Robinson is continually working<br />
on new creations and by the time<br />
March 19 rolls around he may just<br />
have a new recipe to unveil.<br />
The Star City2Surf with<br />
Mike Pero<br />
Sunday, March 19<br />
14km or 6km option<br />
walk, jog or run<br />
$25 entries available at<br />
Pak’NSave, New World, The<br />
Athletes Foot, YMCA and<br />
online www.city2surf.co.nz<br />
oney<br />
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