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Multi sport’s rising star Braden Currie thought his career was over when he started a family.

Braden was a raw talent recording some notable performances, but just as his career looked set to take off it appeared to be all over with the arrival of his child.

However, what he thought would be the end of his sporti ng career became the driving force behind him fulfi lling his potenti al, and Braden is now touted as the next big thing in multi sport.

“I’ve always believed people should follow their passion so I was right behind him,” his wife Sally said.

“He’s such a naturally talented athlete that it would have been a waste for him not to give it

a go.”Braden entered his fi rst multi sport race at

the tender age of 14, contesti ng the high-fl ying Peak to Pub, a three-stage multi sport race from the top of Mt Hutt to the Blue Pub in Methven.

In 2006 Braden’s showed his untamed poten-ti al when the raggedy-looking schoolboy ran faster than Steve Gurney.

“To be honest I was hungover and had slept the night in my truck,” Braden said.

“I turned up in board shorts and rugby socks but ran a faster ti me than Steve Gurney.”

It was a superb performance, considering his pre-race build-up, but he didn’t give it a second thought.

In fact it was some ti me before he realised his

abiliti es and even longer before he was able to put them to work.

“I kind of knew I wasn’t too bad at long distance running at school. I wasn’t that great at track running but did okay in cross country.”

“It wasn’t unti l my fi rst Coast to Coast (in 2007) that I realised what I could do,” he said, referring to his run through the Goat Pass mountain track in which he went from 203rd to third.

“My specialty is mountain running and I’ve raced all the top guys in New Zealand and haven’t been equalled.”

Braden’s PE teacher at Mount Hutt College, James Roderick, who himself was big on multi -sport, was the major early infl uence.

“Roddy was one of the big driving factors in getti ng me running. He would pick us up to do an hour before school.

“Then doing the Outdoor Pursuits Course at Mount Hutt College got me out there more and into kayaking and mountain biking.”

Coming third in his fi rst two-day Coast to Coast in 2007 was a big moment in his sporti ng career, but the reality of his achievement didn’t sink in and was quickly overshadowed by one of the biggest moments in his life.

“Sally was pregnant and so my focus went towards family. It was always my intenti on to come back and have another shot, but my focus turned away from multi sport.

“We were running the OPC course in Methven

Methven’s BradenCurrie is touted as

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chance of winning the Coast to Coast. He is living his dream, but it was almost all over

when familycommitments took precedence over

career. Braden talked to Jonathan Leask

about juggling family, training and paying

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at the ti me, but we couldn’t do that with a baby.

“We didn’t really know what we were doing or where we were going.”

So Tarn arrived in 2007 and aft er a few months of adjusti ng to parenthood they came up with a plan.

“I was prett y nervous when we found out. I was 21 and sti ll felt prett y damn young.

“I was a nervous wreck at the ti me but we were confi dent we were making the right deci-sions and could get the job done.”

Like so many Kiwis they jumped the ditch and landed on their feet in Australia.

Sally moved over to train as a yoga instructor and Braden followed soon aft er.

In a lucky turn, Braden went for a ride on a bike tour and by the end of the ride it was his tour.

“An opportunity came up to buy a mountain bike company and it was too good to pass up.”

He now had a family and a business, leaving litt le ti me for much else.

“He thought his racing days were done,” Sally said.

“We were prett y busy with the business and Tarn that we didn’t have a lot of spare ti me.”

“But he felt something was missing so he got back into training and eventually ran a Gold Coast half ironman and did prett y well.”

If that was a small taste of what he was miss-ing, a holiday to New Zealand in 2011 reignited

his craving to compete.“We came back to New Zealand for a holiday

and he helped his brother Glen on the Coast to Coast. That was it. He wanted to get back into it.”

Braden had been out of multi sport for two-and-a-half years but came back with a bang, winning the fi rst race of the Australian Ana-conda Series and aft er two more races he was second overall to Richard Ussher.

Then came another curve ball.“We sold the bike company which kind of

came out of the blue,” Braden said.“A guy from Sydney contacted us keen to get

his hands on it and the off er was worth accept-ing.

“It worked out well for us because we sti ll had the cycle tour company, which we can run from anywhere, and so back we came.”

He returned to New Zealand last year and kept up his good form, taking out the Wanaka Half Ironman, a training exercise for his long-awaited return to the Coast to Coast, coming third in his fi rst att empt in the longest day – covering the 243km from the West Coast to the East Coast in one day.

It was a performance that again showed his potenti al, and it wasn’t missed by fi ve ti me winner Ussher, the post-Gurney godfather of multi sport, who was looking to fi ll a vacancy.

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6 YOU cover story“There were a few of us vying for a spot on his

team. Dougal Allan and a few other guys includ-ing myself.

“Dougal beat me in the Coast to Coast so I thought it would be him but Rich off ered me a spot.”

Braden’s tenacity and determinati on caught the eye of Ussher, and Braden’s career took off .

“Rich just liked the way I raced because I put it all out there. Whenever we were racing and I came across him I would never sit on his feet, I’d try to take the lead rather than tuck in behind him and he liked that.

“To be asked to race alongside him is like the golden ti cket. If he chooses you, you have to be up there.”

The Ussher off er was the golden ti cket of racing that got him onto the world stage, but the supporti ve Sally had given him the more important golden ti cket.

Aft er watching his brother come third in the Coast To Coast, the desire to race was back and it meant sacrifi ce, but it came in the unlikely manner.

“We worked out a full-on plan that he could work and train but it would have been chaos and really hard on him,” Sally said.

“So I just told him to not worry about work and put all his focus on giving it a go.

“We live right on the line but we are happy. It’s the perfect ti me for us to do it now and we can always get jobs and do the regular family thing later.”

So while Braden is off gallivanti ng around the world, Sally’s running the business, but the decision that allowed Braden the freedom to train and compete also gave him more ti me to be a dad.

“I don’t work I just train and take care of Tarn,” he said.

“We don’t make that much money but it’s enough to survive and the odd winner’s cheque helps.

“I’m prett y lucky and I wouldn’t have it any other way. I get to train and not feel like I’m neglecti ng ti me with him to do it.

“I drop him off at day care, go training for a few hours then pick him up.

“I don’t know how some guys do it. They work a 40 hour week but fi nd the ti me to train for a multi sport race and be a parent. That would have been me.”

Tarn is now four and is becoming more like his father every day.

“He’s amazing. A prett y relaxed kid that doesn’t get too stressed out about much.”

“We’re not trying to push him but he’s already into his sports and is prett y handy on a bike. He goes burning around dropping down stairs. He’s

crazier than I am.”Braden has plenty of ti me to spend with his

son because he “maximises” his training ti me.“I’m a bit on the lazy side when it comes to

training.“I fi nd it’s all about fi nding what’s right for you

and what works.“I like short high intensity training rather than

training for a long ti me. Probably because I have a short att enti on span.

“Any week I would do 20-30 hours of actual solid training but some do over 40 hours.”

Whatever he’s doing, it works.His racing became all-encompassing but he

sti ll found ti me between training and racing for

family, including making it offi cial, marrying Sally in October.

“We had a nice wee wedding up at Awa Awa Rata reserve and a good party aft erwards. The next day I was on the plane to China for a race, a bit worse for wear on the plane over.

“Married life isn’t that much diff erent for us. Life didn’t change at all, it just became perma-nent.”

Braden is preparing for his next big challenge, the Coast to Coast, the couple are also prepar-ing for their next challenge.

“In 10 weeks we’ll have number two which is prett y exciti ng, but I think that will be the end of it for us. Job done.”

With another baby on the way, the plan is a return to Australia.

“We are looking to go back to Australia for three months aft er the baby arrives because it’s just easier over there.

“It’s warm for one but it’s easier for me to get work that pays well so we can get sorted before we head to Europe.”

Europe is the next adventure for the family, with a slight change of focus.

“My preferred opti on is adventure racing and multi sport with my strong mountain running ability but it’s hard to live on a multi sport wage.

“You have to be at the top of the sport to make a comfortable living but there’s really only

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room for one in New Zealand.“So an opti on is to go into the ironman racing.

Ideally it’s not the kind of racing I would do but it pays bett er.”

Braden, who won the Wanaka Half Ironman in January, is now eyeing the lucrati ve Ironman 70.3 tour where another fellow former Meth-ven athlete, Julia Grant, competed last year in America.

“Julia and I prett y much grew up together be-ing neighbours. We both liked running and we got on really well.

“At 15 or 16 when we had our licence it meant we could pick each other up and go running.

“Eventually we went down diff erent paths so

drift ed apart for a while.“She went down the long-distance running

path and into triathlons, whereas I was kind of out of everything for a while and then came into multi sport.

“But now that I have crossed over into doing a few of the triathlon type events we started catching up a bit more oft en and the plan is hopefully I can convince her to come to Europe and compete in the 70.3 tour there.”

But before Braden’s family grows by one and he chases glory in Europe, he has some unfi n-ished multi sport business in the Coast to Coast.

It was the hard luck story of his fi rst Coast to Coast that allowed him to realise he could run

like a mountain goat.“I went in not knowing what to expect but I

knew I had a chance to go alright.“I managed to get into an early breakaway to

hit the bike and was well ahead up the front unti l 4km to go I had a puncture.

“I fi xed it and got back on, but had another blow out and had to wait for the support vehicle to bring me a new one. Meanwhile, 200 people rode past.

“I was prett y much about to give up when a guy who had helped out with getti ng energy shots came past and told me to hurry up and get moving.

“I picked myself up and just ran hard to end up

fi nishing the fi rst day in second.“I wasn’t that strong in the kayak leg so I fell

back again on the second day but managed to fi nish third.”

Aft er getti ng back on the scene last year, and using the lessons learned in the two-day race in 2007, Braden came third in his fi rst longest day last year, but is ti pped for a ti lt at the top spot.

Braden has already been marked as Ussher’s apprenti ce, and even shown up the master on occasion, coming home fi ve minutes ahead of Ussher in the Xterra World Championships (triathlon with a multi sport twist) in Hawaii.

He now hopes to claim the throne in the Coast-to-Coast next weekend.

Braden Currie (far left) fl ying alongthe highway during the Coast toCoast last year and (centre andright) covering the fi nal few metresto come third last year in the epic254km one-day race, which he isaiming to win this year. Braden was third behind the two professionalathletes – fi ve-time winner Richard Ussher and third-time runner-up Dou-gal Allan.

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It was on a long bus ride beginning at 6am that Fernando and Luana Da Silva met about 15 years ago.The pair were living in their home city of Sao

Paulo in Brazil, and were commuti ng to their respecti ve desti nati ons of mechanical prepara-ti on school and high school.

Fernando mustered up the courage to ask the prett y 14-year-old sitti ng in another seat if he could sit next to her, aft er a dare from his friends.

She said yes.“When I asked for her name she just wrote on

the window,” Mr Da Silva said.Luana recalls the reason she wrote in the

condensati on on the window of the crowded bus was because she was “a bit shy”.

It was the start of a blossoming romance and the pair sat next to each other every day from then on.

Fernando was att ending mechanical prepara-ti on school, which he would go to six days a week from 7am to 5pm each day, before att ending high school at night from 6pm to

11pm. Luana was att ending high school, which would run from 7am to about 1pm each day.

Fernando said it had been important to att end the preparati on school as well, getti ng him ready for a university course in mechanical engineering which he undertook later.

“If you don’t start when you are 13 you don’t get a good job. If you don’t go to high school you won’t even get a job picking up rubbish on the street,” he said.

Fernando, today aged 30, and Luana, 29, were married and had a child by the ti me Fernando came to New Zealand in 2004 to

learn English. He was leaving a good job as a mechanical engineer at a commercial passen-ger aircraft constructi on company employing 16,000 people.

He moved from Auckland to Ashburton in 2006 to work for Rainer Irrigati on aft er deciding New Zealand could be a good place to stay and bring up his family. Luana and son Guilherme, today 11, followed soon aft er.

As much as Fernando loved his work at Rainer, he and Luana longed to start their own business, and the couple opened F & L House Cleaning Soluti ons in 2011.

It is a business that has taken off and will oft en see them clean seven or eight homes in one day, some days not fi nishing unti l 9pm. They also clean some offi ces and may take on more offi ces in future and begin to employ staff next year.

“We don’t chase work any more, people ring,” Fernando said.

One of the att racti ons for New Zealand was its reputati on as an adventure sports desti na-ti on, and Fernando has tried skydiving, kayak-ing, snowboarding and skiing.

“We don’t have snow back home so it was a big surprise when I saw it for the fi rst ti me,” Fernando said.

The couple miss family as they strive to create a new life in New Zealand for themselves and their son. Luana has a shortened version of her son’s name tatt ooed on her forearm, and also the name of her mother Claudett e, whom she talks to every day on Skype.

They have not been back to Brazil for a couple of years “but hopefully next year we will be there for the World Cup”, Fernando said.

Left – High school sweethearts: Fernando and Luana Da Silva of Ashburton met many years ago in their home country of Brazil.

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By Sam Morton

Sitti ng in the garden as the sun beams down in Ashburton, Andrew Czerski feels a long way from home.

But where’s home for Andrew, his wife Alice and their 14-month-old daughter Mia?

England, Australia, Poland or New Zealand? Well, technically it could be any one of them.Andrew, a teacher at Ashburton Interme-

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So moving to Ashburton from East London in July was a no brainer and proved to be a homecoming for Alice – who he met teaching at the same school in England.

Wide open space and a ti dy two-bedroom house on Cameron Street in Ashburton is a far cry from his one-bedroom fl at in London with a paving slab for a garden and terrace brick houses for his breakfast table view.

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Yes there were riots, but he describes them as an unfortunate example of London rather than the norm.

In fact, he learned a bucket-load and enjoyed the cultural diversity of the East London com-munity.

“I was very fortunate to work with some infl uenti al key leaders over there and I learned a lot, which I hope I can bring into my teaching here at the Intermediate.

“The educati on systems diff er from place to place, but to be honest the expectati ons re-main high and are fairly consistent in demand wherever you go,” he said.

Andrew, who plays for the Coldstream Crick-et team, believes the New Zealand educati on sector has had a rough ti me in the past year, but feels strongly the Government is aiming in the right directi on to improve.

“You’ve got to aim high for every child, you can’t just say four out of fi ve achieving is fi ne. Only fi ve out of fi ve will do and to do that you have to give every child equal rights and meet the needs of diff erent children,” he said.

“I think this year everyone will be working to achieve that.”

Growing up in Australia from the age of fi ve, Andrew has one or two other stories to tell.

“My mother moved us from Poland during the Polish communism and we were refugees for a short ti me in Austria. Then we moved to Sydney and for me looking back, that must have been a big decision for my parents to make ... a lot of risk associated with doing so.

“But that’s another story for another day. It all worked out and I wouldn’t change anything for the world, everything has panned out. I have a beauti ful wife, a gorgeous daughter and a great job in a great town – it’s fair to say I’m really enjoying life,” he said.

And aft er a year that was packed full with a wedding, a new house, a new job and a baby daughter – you can’t blame Andrew and Alice for hoping 2013 is a litt le less hecti c.

Family looking forward to a relaxed pace

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Ashburton Intermediate teacher Andrew Czerski and his wife Alice moved to New Zealand last year with their daughter Mia. They are both really enjoying the small-town spirit and are hoping for a more relaxed year.

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