28 June 2026 Don’t Blur Your Boundaries If we don’t make a conscious effort to separate our hard intervals from the easy, and our rest from the work, we are not making the most of our workouts….more…
6 October 2021 Planning your race season: Periodization Part 2. How does each pre-season, event, training week and day evolve to being mapped-out and put into action? Periodization. Here’s Part 2 of my advice on Periodization. I’ll use a construction…more…
29 September 2021 Planning your race season: Periodization Part 1. Don’t dive blindly into a training programme until you know how the calendar progresses, and what each Phase is for. As we tentatively get excited about Post-Lockdown events starting up…more…
5 April 2021 Start Line Anxiety The start of a triathlon somehow seems designed to cause anxiety in all those who have failed to prepare correctly. Pre-Competition Nerves are something everyone in sports has experienced: disrupted…more…
7 January 2021 Stretching. Or not. If you’ve known me for a while, you would have often heard me wax lyrical about the lack of current science behind stretching before and after exercise. First of all, a couple…more…
30 December 2020 Run Efficiency Part 3: Posture Let’s start with a little re-cap on Parts 1 and 2 before the final piece of the puzzle: Test your cadence, and increase your stroke rate to around 90 foot…more…
10 November 2020 Run Efficiency Part 2: Breathing Pretty important as a human just being. But if your breathing is all out of whack while running, you can feel uncomfortable, incompetent and demotivated. We’re not going to talk…more…
3 November 2020 Run Efficiency Part 1: Cadence Does anyone else hear that word in a French accent? If you’re a self-proclaimed nerd like me, you will get excited by the fact that this Middle English word was…more…
6 October 2020 Different types of stress. Have you ever heard one of those people who say: “I just don’t get stressed”? You may even be one yourself… About a decade ago, when my training volume increased…more…
29 September 2020 The Triangle Of Change This is a concept given a sports twist by Sir Dave Brailsford, CBE. It resonates with me on many levels, so I’m going to share it with you here. The…more…
