Rasmus Henning recently won the Abu Dhabi International Triathlon but it's been a roller coaster ride over the last 18 months for the Dane. He had a great career as a short course ITU racer winning five World Cup events, represented Denmark at two Olympic Games where he came seventh in Athens and eighth in Beijing and won the Hy Vee event twice netting himself $200,000 for each. Following this he turned his attention back to long course racing having won the ITU Long Distance World Championships in 2001. His long distance career started well with a win at Ironman China, a fifth place finish at the Ironman World Championships despite a broken hand and went on to win Challenge Roth in 2010 in a time of 7:52:36 Things were looking good but a string of poor performances and issues with cramping led to many writing him off. At times he was thinking the same. Change was needed and this was when he approached purplepatch coach Matt Dixon, who takes us through the journey so far.