They finished third at last year's world championships in Perth and won the International 470 Spring Cup and Sail for Gold regatta in Weymouth where the Olympic sailing competition will be held.
Aleh will still jump on a bike during competition ("I still have to get to the yacht club," she said) but will make sure she wears a helmet now for even the smallest journeys.
It's just another thing Aleh and Powrie will tick off on their checklist.
The pair consider themselves one of the more organised crews in world sailing in the hope of minimising effects from the unexpected. It's one of the learnings Aleh took from the Beijing Olympics, where she finished seventh in the Laser Radial after leading at the halfway point of the regatta.
London will be the first Olympics for the 24-year-old Powrie.
"My last Olympics didn't go well for me," Aleh said. "I pretty much stuffed it up big time. It was really good learning.
"One of the biggest things I learned was the importance of planning. This time around, we have tried to do a lot more paper work on the campaign. First time, it was wing it, see how it goes. You don't learn to plan until you haven't and it goes wrong."
It has seen Aleh and Powrie spend considerable time in Weymouth. It's a venue that will suit the New Zealand crews because the conditions are similar to this country - usually a moderate to strong breeze but with the potential to go flat.
It's the one variable they can do nothing about and it will challenge crews to make the right decisions on the race course.
Aleh and Powrie are usually on a similar wave length but have worked with a sports psychologist about how to make decisions when they disagree on tactics.
About seven crews have the ability to win gold in the women's 470 class - named because boats are 470 centimetres long - with Team Jolly among them. As long as they don't fall off their bikes.
