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When I first came into the world of Triathlon, I knew I’d found my “home”.
And while I really enjoy competing as a Great Britain Age Group Athlete, I’m happiest when I’m coaching other people to reach and exceed their own goals.
There really is no feeling like helping someone push through barriers they thought they never could and achieve things they never thought they would.
Having been a Trisutto athlete since 2015, I understand that the real key to success lies in understanding and working WITH my clients.
I endeavour to ensure that my clients have training plans that not only get results, but that they can stick to without burning themselves out.
Afterall, the trick to being a successful triathlete is being able to stay the course, and that means steady, sustainable progress. Because you can’t train if you go off too hard and end up injured can you?
Equally, I know that you can’t commit to training for 6 hours a day 7 days a week – You’ve got a life to live.
So my philosophy centres around not only making you fitter, better and stronger, but I’ll also work closely with you to come up with a schedule that fits around your, already busy, life.
So get in touch today to find out how I can help you achieve your goals and more!
2015 (age 51!) after watching Oliver become so addicted, I decided I must give it a go myself!
The empathetic skills that consider the whole athlete as a person, we take into account their lifestyle, mental health, if they’ve had a bad day or are not feeling great, we can spot these things and act accordingly.
We spend so much time on deck working with people and observing them and it means that we we can take that into our online coaching because we will know what athletes are talking about without really even having to see them.
There’s much that we have seen in real life that there isn’t anything that we can’t fix!
We are so experienced that we are able to work with complete beginners right through to top of their game athletes, and everyone in between! We are straight talking and will not try and bombard people with technical language they do not understand! We are normal people who have busy. lives ourselves outside of triathlon, so completely understand that people should have a life as well as well as taking part in this amazing sport!
Even though you’d think that my favourite triathlon memory would be competing for Great Britain, strangely enough, it’s not! It is actually the first time we did the World Championship course in 2013 in Hyde Park, where the Brownlee brothers had won the year before and they were competing the day after we did ours.
Running on that carpet for the very first time doing an amazing bike and an amazing run, I absolutely loved it and I will never forget it!
I coached a middle-aged lady who became silver medalist in the World Championship Olympic distance event
Representing Great Britain in a European age group duathlon, a 48-minute 10k
British Triathlon Level 2 qualified, Iron Man U qualified, Trisutto Certified and Training Peaks accredited
ACL reconstruction, rheumatoid arthritis, collitis – and I am still going!
I really like running!
What annoys us in general about triathlon is the obsession that is people teach swimming for swimming, cycling for cycling and running for running, but it’s none of those things. Triathlon is triathlon, it’s all one sport.
You can’t separate them because what you do in swimming affects what you do on the bike. What you do on the swim in the bike effects what you do on the run. You can’t teach somebody a technique that marathon runners use for running because they just run a marathon – they don’t ride for 150 miles before or swim 3 miles before that!
And that’s why we look beyond what you’re taught in textbooks and look at what actually happens and put triathlon together as one sport so that we have a way of doing things that fits together.
It’s no exaggeration to say that sport is my main passion in life.
However… It became apparent early on, that getting my arms and legs to do what my brain wanted wasn’t always straightforward!
But this turned out to be a good thing, because it made me work harder, and really study the “how” and the “why” of the sports I liked, until I could master them.
Which gave me a deep understanding of sport and stood me in good stead to become a coach.
Back in 2012 I started competing in Triathlons, and it soon became clear that while I love competing for myself, my real love is coaching other people.
So that’s what I did, in 2013 I started training people, and since then I’ve worked my way through various qualifications, culminating in becoming Trisutto certified, and being mentored by the man himself – Brett Sutton.
I’ve also worked as a litigation lawyer, which isn’t as scary as it sounds!
But it has given me a good eye for detail and the ability to really hear what people are saying to me.
In turn, this enables me to structure your training in a way that isn’t just some generic cookie cutter approach, but truly meets you where you are now, and helps you get to be where, ultimately, you want to be,
So get in touch today to find out how I can help you achieve your goals and more!
2012, aged 24. I had seen triathlon on the Olympics and decided I must give it a go!
As coaches we’re particularly good at knowing what to say and when to say it. Some people just want to learn new stuff all the time so they can pick it up like a Magpie but that’s not coaching because you’re just giving them information that they can’t assimilate quickly enough and so they end up in a mess.
You’ve got to be able to see what you know what you want to see to coach them but know when to tell them when they’re ready for it and when they’re not ready for it.
We work well with most people, as long as they buy into what we do and believe in us.
We do have a questionnaire and have a Zoom meeting before taking on new clients to make sure we are a good fit for each other.
My favourite triathlon memory is the first time I did a half Ironman event called Steel Man in 2016. It was the longest event I had ever competed in and other people at the club I was at underestimated how good I was going to be. I thrashed everybody at the club, I was about half an hour faster than them all and I was so chuffed with how I had done and how they’d all completely underestimated me!
In terms of events I have performed well at – I I have won my age group, I completed a 5 hour 5 minute Half Ironman, a 2 hour 20 minute standard distance triathlon and a 1 hour 40 minute half marathon, I am proud of those achievements.
British Triathlon Level 2 qualified, Iron Man U qualified, Trisutto Certified and Training Peaks accredited
But what we have done beyond this is far more important! We have travelled the world studying the best triathlon coaches and their methods, I used to spend my lunch breaks watching Jessica Ennis-Hill being coached in Sheffield. I study their methods and apply a combination of everything I have learned to get amazing results!
Internal organ sepsis in 2018 and a RED-S diagnosis
Triathlon ****heads, people who take themselves too seriously and people that try and split out the disciplines as separate sports!
Triathlon is one sport!
I also don’t believe that triathlon should be focussed on the most expensive bike/watch whatever other gadget is popular. It shouldn’t be about that stuff.
“You don’t have to be the horse to be the jockey!” (Arrigo Sacchi).
This is so apt because you often find that event winners do not necessarily make the best coaches! We have won events, but get far more out of coaching others to achieve their goals.
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