It’s not easy juggling work, family and training. It’s a real art, and something that all of us age-group (AG) athlete strive to find the right balance with. And I’m not even fortunate to have children thrown into the mix too! Most of the battle as an AG athlete is finding the right balance and maximizing everything we do (training, racing, nutrition) to make the most out of the hours in the days and weeks. This is just a short blog post on regarding some of my thoughts on ef

Over the past month, two gruelling Iron-distance races took place in New Zealand – Challenge Wanaka and Taupo Ironman New Zealand. For this blog post, we’re fortunate to share an analysis of the daily morning heart rate variability (HRV) readings from two champions – one from each race. The overall male winner of Challenge Wanaka, Dougal Allan, was generous to share his HRV data with us, alongside the overall age-group champion for Ironman New Zealand (10th overall) our very