Category: Coaches
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James Turner
James has been running competitively and competing in triathlons for a number of years. He believes that flexible progressive training programmes, allied to regular two-way feedback between coach and athlete, can help people significantly improve their running. His programmes are based on scientific principles from the likes of “Build Your Running Body” by Pete Magill…
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Michael Wray
Michael, a masters runner has discovered the older he gets the faster he runs – something he knows biology will reverse at some stage. Michael has won numerous regional, national and Oceania titles in distances of 800m to the marathon covering the disciplines of road, cross country, track and mountain running. Michael uses a training…
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Rowan Hooper
Rowan was regarded as a keen but rather slow 800m runner in his teenage years. He subsequently found the longer distances more to his liking going on to win both the Christchurch and Auckland city marathons, whilst retaining enough speed to run a decent 5km (14:10). Like most endurance-focused athletes his coaching approach is based…
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Emma Bassett
Emma Bassett is an enthusiast and runner across various distances, different types of events, and a multitude of terrains. Over 10+ years this has built into longer and hillier events with ultramarathons featuring as a favourite. She focuses on the kinship and enjoyment first – but this is followed quickly by practical conversations, evidence based…
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Chandima Kulathilake
Chand is based in Wellington, New Zealand and coaches a variety of runners who are competitive and aiming for a podium finish to runners who are aiming to complete their first events. Regardless of ability if your aim is to do well and be prepared for your next goal event then get in touch to…
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Jonathan Harper
Jonathan coaches a small but successful group of primary school cross country and track athletes, and takes care of our J Team. He coached his daughter Ariana for a number of years. She has won several national titles as a junior woman. Jonathon is also a trained and experienced schoolteacher, adult education tutor, social worker…
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Todd Stevens
Todd Stevens uses his own experiences from 25 years of competitive running, 15 years as captain of the club’s senior men’s A team and from winning the Rotorua and NZ Marathon Championship to formulate his coaching programmes. His approach to coaching is based on the Lydiard system and he believes in building a strong aerobic…
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Matt Dravitski
Matt Dravitzki has been running and experimenting on himself for nearly 30 years. He won a couple of NZ champs and ran a 2.13 marathon. He coaches a small group of athletes – a couple of whom have also won NZ titles. He believes that results in distance running come from sustained periods of consistent…