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Triathlete back on track with treadmill Travis Paterson News staff
Zipping into a black bubble, Matt Sharpe looks more like he’s about get into a time machine than on a treadmill. Thanks to the Canadian Sports Institute’s new Alter-G treadmill, an approximately $75,000 machine, the injured Saanich triathlete is already a month into rehabilitation on an injured ankle that wouldn’t have started for another two weeks. As he runs, his legs are visible through a window in the bubble. You can see the effort it takes to force a natural running motion. “It really is like running on the moon, you have to be conscious of a proper stride,” said Sharpe, as the machine filled a bubble of air around him and lifted him off the ground. “I started running at 60 per cent of my body weight, about three times a week, and gradually added weight.” The Alter-G allows Sharpe, in this case, the ability to retain the muscle memory in his ankle for running despite having tendinitis. But it can work for many leg injuries, said CSI physiotherapist Holly Murray. “It’s a pretty popular machine since we got it a couple months ago. It allows you to keep the neuro-muscular patterns from previous training.” In essence, the machine is salvaging a winter’s worth of training for Sharpe, who enjoyed success in some smaller Southern hemisphere triathlons this spring only to suffer
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Triathlete Matt Sharpe floats on a cushion of air while running on 80 per cent of his body weight in the Alter-G treadmill at the Canadian Sports Institute Pacific’s Gord Sleivert Sport Performance Lab at the Pacific Institute for Sports Excellence. the setback of an injury as race season arrived. Sharpe had a goal to represent Canada at this summer’s Pan Am Games but is now targeting a pair of World Cup races
in October. Ellen Pennock, a Victoriabased training partner of Sharpe’s, will represent Canada at the Pan Am Games. reporter@saanichnews.com
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Reynolds secondary grad Erinne Paisley has sold her paper prom dress – which went viral online earlier this month – for a closing bid of $1,150. Paisley posted the actual dress to gobid.com after photos of it earned national media attention at her Reynolds prom and graduation on May 31. The dress is made of Paisley’s recycled math homework and bears the writing, “I received my education, not every woman has. Malala.org,” in red marker. “I’m extremely happy (the dress) sold and I’m very excited to be (starting) a few projects that have arisen from this experience,” Paisley says. To this day the photo’s original post, on Spotted in Victoria’s Facebook page, carries 11,712 likes and 2,275 shares, heavy lifting for a (previously) little known high school student’s dress. Paisley originally donated $250 to Malala.org, the money she would have spent on a readymade prom dress. Once the dress caught the public’s attention she contributed a blog post about the dress on Malala.org, the site created by Pakastani women’s activist Malala Yousafzai. Paisley does not know dress’
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Erinne Paisley in the paper dress.
purchaser, Becky Moynan, but is deeply indebted to her. “This has been such an amazing experience to go through (as I exit) high school and I’m extremely grateful for it,” Paisley said. “It has taught me many, many things, including things I’m continuing to learn about, (such as) how to integrate activism into pop culture to reach a youthbased audience and create further positive change.” This month Paisley will launch her new project, popactivism. com, which is already on Facebook (Pop Activism) and Twitter @popactivism. Paisley will attend the University of Toronto in September for international relations. reporter@saanichnews.com
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