Flexible Online Coaching
Know your why
We explore your why. Your why will shape your running journey, it is very powerful, When the going gets tough you ask yourself ‘Why am I here’, ‘why am I doing this’, and that gets you your results.
How can a run coach be valuable to you?
Why pay for a coach when there’s so much free information out there on the web?
You go to Mr Google and downloaded a free PDF plan for your next race. Ask yourself; is it best approach FOR YOU?
- Does it take into consideration your lifestyle; job, family, mental health, physical health and if you are female; your menstrual cycle?
- Does it consider where you are now as a runner, (new runner, a runner coming back from injury, demotivated COVID runner, potential Olympic runner?)
- Does it help you train wisely, setting the right sessions at the right time? In particular, if you are FEMALE can it harness your monthly hormonal changes to get the best out of your body.
- Does that plan you downloaded, review and analyse your workouts or are you just looking for Strava Kudos?
- Does it help you reach YOUR objectives efficiently and strategically?
- Does that PDF give you support? Does it mentor you, guide you, interact with you, hold you accountable and provide you with guidance and motivation?
- Does it make you think and helps you own the process?
- Does that bit of paper keep up with all COVID updates? Does, it help you when your race gets postponed or cancelled?
What I can do for you
- I help you get the best experiences possible in YOUR running journey, guiding you, keeping you accountable, and on track. I look out for you, providing balance and specific motivation when needed.
- I make sure that your schedule is appropriate for YOUR skill level.
- I sift through the useless and keep the effective to make sure you experience a journey to suit YOU and not everyone else - taking the thinking out of how much you should run, at what intensity and what frequency, and for how long? You will do lots of the right sessions and none of the wrong sessions.
- If you are female, I structure your journey around your menstrual cycle so you can get the best out of your body at the right time of the month.
- I help you avoid mistakes of overtraining, fatigue, injury, burning, loss of motivation, and make sure that you have fun at the same time.
- You don't know what you don't know. I will be a sounding board for your questions and here for support when things aren’t going the way you had hoped. A mentor, a guide, a support system, and a friend.
- I question, probe and you may find yourself asking questions you would not even know to ask.
- I build YOUR programme to form your individualised journey for sustained success.
- I am the objective voice and help guide you when it is needed or not feel guilty when you miss one session.
- I track your progress and support you throughout your journey; providing a week or two weeks of sessions at once to see how you absorb and adapt, we then use that information to shape the next block of workouts.
WE communicate with each other, WE are a team and we create a journey together, one that follows you not one that you follow.
We are in a world of uncertainty, I don’t need to tell you that. But don’t let COVID get the better of you – you can be the runner you want to be even in these difficult times. We adapt and develop a growth mindset TOGETHER.
The best training plan isn’t the one that you follow, it’s the one that follows you.
I can’t…
…Do the work for you
…but I help guide you in the right way for you so that every step in the journey is the best possible for you.
I am not an expert in everything, for example; I can not provide qualified information on nutrition and I am not a qualified strength coach but I can certainly signpost you in the right direction if I don’t know the answers. From years of experience of racing various distances in all sorts of conditions, I’ve tried lots of things in both training and racing some that work some that don’t. I can therefore help you avoid making the same mistakes.
And now the small issue of cost
You’ve got trainers, socks, tees, shorts, race entries, and travel to glamorous or not so glamous destinations to tow the start line, the price tag even for running can all add up, and of course, don’t forget that extra pair of £100 (or £240) pair of trainers. Coaching is so worth the investment to ensure that all those other expenses don’t end up wasted in an unsatisfying race experience.
I do not have a set price because one persons’ needs are different from the next. The pricing structure depends on so many different factors. Get in touch to find out more.