Now her main project is looking at developing an artery heterograft for humans from animals (that's a tissue graft from one species to another). She did her PhD looking at the structure of collagen in a range of tissues and natural materials, and won two international awards. Most of the time she works from home with her research, but she sometimes flies down to Palmerston North to spend time in the laboratories. Wells works four days a week for Massey's School of Engineering and Advanced Technology. "And work pays the bills when triathlon doesn't." "I can't lie, it's not the easiest to try and do. But she's still determined to make her two careers work. The fatiguing load of trying to balance her ground-breaking research work and competing in professional sport around the globe may well have contributed to her illness. Hannah Wells on a training rider in Wanaka. Winning the half Ironman on the Sunshine Coast has earned her an early ticket to the next world championships, in November 2020, which will be raced on her home soil, in Taupō. So she had to take a different path.īut she's unperturbed. Instead, she watched it on TV.Ī nasty lurgy had laid her out for six weeks, right in the middle of her training regime for the worlds. You see, Wells should have been in France, racing in the Ironman 70.3 world championships in Nice that very same day she won in Australia. The victory brought some welcome light to a particularly dark winter. Wells was happy and a tad tired - having just won the Ironman 70.3 Sunshine Coast title in Mooloolaba.
She's spending the next six weeks training with, and learning from, one of the world's best Ironwomen, American Jocelyn McCauley. When LockerRoom spoke to her this week, she was in Brisbane, on her way to Boise, Idaho. Wells is 28, lives in Tauranga, and works for Massey University. Hannah Wells crosse the finish line on the Sunshine Coast in Australia, Photo: Tim Bardsley-Smith
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