Interview: Rob and Marian Heffernan are totally in sync

She won’t be there today. While her husband Rob powers it out this morning around the southern Slovakian spa town of Dudince in a time that should qualify him for next year’s Rio Olympics, Marian Heffernan will be at home in Douglas with the kids and expecting another one.

She’s only six weeks out now. She couldn’t risk the flight. But the rest of his journey the last 10 years or so, she’s been there virtually every step of the way.

The past two and a bit, she’s been his coach.