Patrick has been involved in endurance sport since he was a teenager.  Self coached he has won several age group titles at a National, Oceania and World level in Triathlon and Xterra as a teenager and as a masters athlete.

With his back ground in software development, Patrick is the numbers man of the ESP coaching team.  He is a certified Training Peaks Power Coach and was an early adopter in using power metrics in developing training programs.

Both Patrick and Tammy applied their personal experience and knowledge with their children as they took up endurance sport.  This grew as they then took on coaching roles in Cycling and Triathlon at Saint Kentigern College for 4 years. 

The unprecedented success at both sports at SKC was the birth of ESP as athletes realized Patrick and Tammy had a passion and thirst for knowledge , combined with an open mind to the latest approaches and methods in endurance sport.

Patrick believes one of the reasons for their success was bringing open minds, especially to cycling. “In reality we were newbies when it came to cycling, so we made it our mission to research, experiment and put into practice what we had learnt and continue learning and adapting. “.    

After moving to Wanaka, Patrick and Tammy have further fine tuned their coaching, specializing in Cyclists while still coaching triathletes and multi sporters.  Their approaches have been refined focusing on a targeting and personalised program periodised across the year while looking ahead across their athletes careers. 

Specificity is the key and they have been proven time and time again that’s this is what drives the success of their athletes.