Stephanie Rattray
Paul Odlin • May 30, 2021
Representing New Zealand
The Athletes Goals and Aspirations
Stephanie has two massive goals - to represent New Zealand at the Paralympic Games; and to be able to continue road cycling all her life.
The training plan
- Stephanie meets with CoachPaul on a fortnightly basis to review and plan her training in detail; as well as set short & medium term goals.
- Stephanie also joins OCC ZoomZwift on a twice weekly basis as part of her training programme.
The Result
Two Personal Best performances during the 2020/21 Canterbury Time Trial Season, reducing her 16 k time by over a minute from the previous year.
Paul – thanks for the coaching and dragging me up from C grade! I had confirmation that I will start this Sunday’s Benchmark race (round 4 – Tour of Selwyn – 2010)
Glenn Quantock | Builder, Woodsman, Landlord, Dad
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