We have been very lucky again in our replacement for Clare as Blair Martin, who will be known to many of you from his time at King’s High School and Otago athletics where he still holds records for middle distance events, is returning with his young family to live in Dunedin in the next few weeks. Blair has had a practice in Sydney for the last 8 years serving New South Wales’ cycling, running and triathlon community. He has specialised in bike fitting, running analysis and physiotherapy for mountain bikers/runners, charity cycling and running events. His former work involved work in a clinic based within a gym, where he got great experience working with all types of injuries. He spent 6 years prior to that working in the work rehabilitation field, conditioning patients to be work fit and recover from injuries sustained whilst at play and work.
Blair graduated from Otago with a BPhys in 1996, and after working in New Zealand for 3 years headed over to Australia to further his running career under a Sydney coach, having already represented NZ in middle distance. He won the Australian Half Marathon champs, achieved various NSW titles, and has silvers in NZ 10k, 5k and cross country. He moved into triathlon, after a sacral fracture, and then to cycling, and in 2007 was the NSW Elite State Road Cycling champion. He has also assisted on, and ridden, the Tour de Cure, which raises funds for Australian cancer charities and research projects. His boyhood dream of riding the Tour of Southland was realised from 2007-2009 and it was during those years he started his “Body Mechanic” business in Sydney to assist others overcome injury, using various programmes to analyse gait, function and form to achieve optimum bike set up, running technique and recovery.
Blair arrives in Dunedin on 25 January, with Heather and their two children Ruby and Alexander, just in time for Ruby to start at St Clair School. Heather is also an elite athlete, representing and coming 4th for NZ in Triathlon at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, and only 35secs behind the winner! A very talented family! Ruby has already done a fun run with Blair, and Alex started to walk at race pace from 1yo!! Dunedin is lucky to have them. We look forward to having lots of fun working together and continuing to work hard to see all our patients return to work and play as fast as possible. Blair will be helping Geoff with Pilates classes too, which in Term 1 at least will be on Mondays/Tuesdays, as Fiona is taking 2016 off due to the arrival of her 4th child this year.
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