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Godzone Pure 2021
How do you capture 128 hours of virtually non-stop racing into a few paragraphs without making it boring or arduous to read? The obvious answer

2021 Coast to Coast
I have often remarked to myself and my athletes: “You either succeed, or you learn”. What I have probably failed to acknowledge, is that on

Covid, controllables and continuing
Training and racing in endurance sport for the past 13 years has taught me countless lessons. But one of the biggest ones is that success

Forbidden fruit during Covid 19
About 10 years ago I sat down with my coach Val and explained I wanted to move to Nelson, at the top of NZ’s South

Leave the race wheels for race week
The idea of this blog is to explain why race wheels are a serious advantage on race day, but why they can also be a

Mixing It Up
With the level of uncertainty and general fear in the world right now I feel very fortunate to have been able to compete in two