Endurance coaching
DA Endurance Coaches
The team at DA Endurance believe coaching is about more than just writing programs. True coaching is about fostering personal growth, skillsets and technique, specific fitness components and of course the pure enjoyment of leading an active lifestyle. Our experienced coaches blend personal experience as top-level athletes with qualifications in the sport and exercise science fields, enabling us to develop the best periodised training plans to compliment each individual athlete to suit your lifestyle and goals.
We invite you to apply for our coaching by clicking on the “athlete application” button below, places are strictly limited.
Dougal Allan
Dougal Allan brings to his coaching role an Honours degree in Physical Education and is constantly upskilling his vast range of knowledge keeping himself totally up to date.
Dougal is one of the most sought after endurance coaches in New Zealand and around the world. His combination of practical and theoretical knowledge coupled with his passion for helping prepare athletes for their own race related goals makes him the complete coaching package.

Dan Jones
The desire to help people reach their full athletic potential along with his personal approach to success all contribute to Dan’s popular coaching style.
Dan is able to bring together a depth of knowledge and experience to his coaching, from both an educational background and as a competitive athlete.
With a Masters of Business Administration, Level 4 and 5 Personal Training Certificate, as well as on-going Training Peaks University studies, Dan has gained immense knowledge around training principles and techniques for multisport, adventure racing and triathlon with a special interest in running.
Like Dougal, Dan also ‘walks the talk’ with many successful years competing in events such as Queenstown Marathon, Kepler Challenge, Coast to Coast and international team adventure races. Dan has a specialist interest in all forms of distance running after spending five years as a scholarship runner in the United States competing in the NCAA cross-country and track running scenes.
Dan and Dougal take a synergetic approach to ensure DA Endurance Coaching delivers the best outcome for their clients.
DA Endurance Coaching Options

Triathlon / Multisport Weekly: $120
The result is a training approach that is highly individualised, adaptable and constantly optimised to ensure true purpose and progress that we shape around a busy life.

Triathlon/Multisport Monthly: $380pm
If you have initiative and plenty of self-drive, we offer the monthly option to generate highly individualised training approaches that still allow a limited amount of contact with your coach en route to your goals.

Run Monthly with Dan Jones: $280pm
Dan Jones comes from a lifetime in competitive track, road and trail running. If you have meaningful running goals and want to ensure your preparation targets your best chance at success, we invite you to apply for one of Dan’s limited run coaching spots.

Cycle Monthly with Dougal Allan: $280pm
With personal success in various cycling formats for more than a decade, Dougal has amassed vast experience as well as science-driven knowledge on how to train and prepare to perform on a bike. development on a bike.
We invite you to apply for a limited spot under his cycle coaching tutelage now.

Strength Programming for Endurance Sport: $180
With 18 years combined experience (including work for High Performance Sport NZ) we are pleased to offer a unique service involving an initial consultation, strength and mobility programming/prescription and follow up consultation to deliver the plan.
This is a highly individualised product that can complement any training and lifestyle routine and can be designed to be performed at home or at the gym.

Private Consultations: $150
Why work with us?
When choosing DA Endurance Coaching, you will be entering into a powerful athlete-coach partnership. We offer personalised coaching to suit all levels that compliment individual needs.
Centred around your specific needs, schedule and goals, your training and preparation will aim to consistently optimise your time and energy available. We understand that life is a constantly changing and evolving thing, so the training needs to be reactive and able to be modified along the way to maximise the opportunities available but also to introduce recovery in an appropriate manner throughout.
You will receive a completely individualised training program, on-going and specific feedback, guidance and education to empower you through the process, regardless of which coaching option you choose.
WHO WE WORK WITH
Athletes wanting a highly personalised and adaptable coaching relationship that aims to empower you with knowledge and understanding along the way.
Athletes with busy lives who need accountability as well as the assurance that their training is always purposeful, targeted and highly time-efficient.
Anyone with a desire to maximise their time in the sport from a learning, performance and enjoyment point of view.
OUR COMMITMENT TO YOU
- Identify key goals and aspirations.
- Individualised training program via Training Peaks.
- Performance management and tracking data.
- Strength and conditioning programming.
- Guidance and feedback keeping you accountable for achieving your goals.
- Technique analysis and educational opportunities.
- Phone and email support.
- Detailed race planning and debrief processes.
- Group based training opportunities (eg. exclusive training camps) with other DA Endurance Ltd members and coaches.
- Our coaching capacity remains strictly limited to allow for us to deliver a premium service to our clients.
Please note that there is a 3 month minimum sign up and $100 start up fee for new clients. As part of our commitment to offering a premium coaching service, we keep our athlete numbers limited at all times. Due to high demand we now invite you to fill out the athlete application form and we will be in touch soon.
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