HIGH OCTANE

The maximum heart rate for the average 34-year-old should be about 185 beats per minute. Chris Grube, however, is not your average 34-year-old. Now going to his second Olympics as crew for Luke Patience in the 470, Grube will often hit 195, even 200 beats per minute and over the course of a 45-minute race will be operating at a fearsome 170bpm. There aren’t many sports outside triathlon or cycling that demand that kind of intensity for such a duration. Consider, too, that a 470 regatta will see Grube and Patience doing three races a day, for a week. The ‘pumping-allowed’ flag goes up