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8 Thursday <strong>November</strong> <strong>23</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />
Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />
News<br />
Canterbury retirees among most<br />
Canterbury’s retirees<br />
are some of the<br />
most active in the<br />
country, according<br />
to a new report. It<br />
also looks at what<br />
sports Cantabrians<br />
are playing. Bridget<br />
Rutherford reports<br />
EVERY WEDNESDAY morning<br />
a group of cyclists meet at <strong>The</strong><br />
Princess Margaret Hospital car<br />
park, jump on their bikes and<br />
head to Tai Tapu.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y call themselves the<br />
Magpies.<br />
Some are doctors on their day<br />
off from work, others are nurses<br />
or mums. But most are retirees.<br />
Graeme Milner and Roy<br />
Pemberton started the group<br />
about 20 years ago. It has grown<br />
to have more than 50 members.<br />
Mr Milner, a veteran cyclist<br />
who represented New Zealand<br />
in 1964, said he loved it for the<br />
fitness and the social aspect.<br />
<strong>The</strong> 87-year-old is one of the<br />
oldest in the group – but he says<br />
age is no barrier and anyone is<br />
welcome. He reckons he will<br />
FIT AS A FIDDLE: Eighty-seven-year-old Graeme Milner (left) and Jeff Greenep, 80, have been<br />
cycling with the Magpies for about 20 years.<br />
PHOTO: MARTIN HUNTER<br />
keep doing it until he is into his<br />
90s.<br />
“It’s the best exercise you can<br />
do. You just have to say it’s going<br />
to take you a wee bit longer than<br />
it used to.”<br />
Sport Canterbury’s draft<br />
Spaces and Places Report which<br />
looked at sport in the region<br />
and the facilities available, said<br />
retirees did more cycling, golf,<br />
bowls, aquarobics than the<br />
national average.<br />
Young retirees aged 65-75<br />
were more likely to take part<br />
in cycling, golf, bowls or<br />
aquarobics.<br />
Twenty-seven per cent cycled,<br />
19 per cent played golf, 10 per<br />
cent did aquarobics, while six per<br />
cent played indoor bowls.<br />
In Canterbury, the number of<br />
young retirees who cycled was<br />
eight per cent higher than the<br />
national average, golf was 11 per<br />
cent above, aquarobics was eight<br />
per cent higher and indoor bowls<br />
was four per cent above.<br />
For those aged 75 and over, the<br />
number of golfers was four per<br />
cent above the national average,<br />
outdoor bowls was five per cent<br />
higher and indoor bowls was<br />
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three per cent above.<br />
Mr Milner said he thought<br />
more retirees were getting into<br />
cycling because it was good to<br />
stay healthy. Once the group got<br />
to Tai Tapu they stopped for a<br />
coffee and a chat, he said.<br />
Jeff Greenep, 80, agreed. He<br />
cycles about four times a week.<br />
He said he has been doing it<br />
since he was a kid.<br />
Cycling was the second most<br />
popular activity for those aged 16<br />
and over. <strong>The</strong> most popular was<br />
walking, at 67 per cent.<br />
That was followed by cycling<br />
with 36 per cent and swimming<br />
at 33 per cent.<br />
Twenty-four per cent did<br />
equipment-based exercise, such<br />
as going to the gym, while 20 per<br />
cent went running.<br />
Cricket and hunting rounded<br />
out the top 20, with about six per<br />
cent taking part in both.<br />
For five to 10-year-olds who<br />
were surveyed, swimming was<br />
the most popular activity at 90<br />
per cent, followed by biking,<br />
athletics, gymnastics and cross<br />
country.<br />
In the 11-14 and 15-18 age<br />
brackets, running took top spot,<br />
followed by swimming, athletics,<br />
basketball and biking.<br />
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