Guest article on Complementarytraining.net.The aim of this workshop was to present and discuss our ideas about collecting and analysing load data. In particular, Dr Dan Weaving (@DanWeaving) presented the following framework to describe the ‘data journey’, and his experiences of the challenges involved in getting through this pathway in his role as a sport scientist at Leeds Rhinos.We then spent the rest of this session going through each of these stages one-by-one, discussing the challenges involved at each step, and presenting some ideas and tools to overcome these.