Success Stories

Having secured a charity place in the 2023 London Marathon, Melanie attended an online workshop I co-hosted and was seeking some guidance. Having run a virtual marathon in 5:02 back in 2019, this would be Melanie’s first official marathon. We had 16 weeks to get ready, factoring in weekly hockey training and several Saturday matches…

I was recommended to Matt by friends and clients from my old running club. He’d just run the Manchester marathon, achieving a very respectable 3:28:13, and wanted to improve this in Berlin. When it came to initial testing, Matt’s strength was still the shorter distances around 5k despite his recent marathon training. The slight imbalance…

6 months before London, we began with a 12 week training plan focusing on speed. Throughout this time, Kim improved her 10k from 56:59 all the way to 52:42. This brought her projected marathon time down from 4:21 to 4:04.  With a marathon PB of 4:59 from Amsterdam in 2019, Kim was on for a…

I’d known Kevin for 4 years before I began coaching him, and in this time he’d had a series of injuries that had stopped him reaching the heights he was capable of. Through a Runner’s MOT, we identified adjustments to avoid the issues whilst still allowing for effective training. Having started with an initial 10…

Kate had run a marathon personal best of 3:43:58 in October, but felt she needed more structure to reach her marathon goals. When we started working together in December, we set sub 3:30 and sub 3:35 as her goals. Kate needed more speed over shorter distances, so we focused on 10k work, before moving on…

Jon was kindly pointed in my direction by client of mine who’s also a running coach and had helped Jon progress before. A huge part of Jon’s motivation is his late-wife Rachel who sadly passed away in 2018, his two girls, his very supportive partner Joanne and Breast Cancer Now, the charity he was raising money for. We…

Jason was pointed in my direction by his brother-in-law, a friend who coaches at Wymondham AC. Having trained for triathlons, Jason was used to a lot of training. We kept weekly swim sessions, and worked on his cadence, identified as an area for improvement from Garmin data and his Runner’s MOT. Jason was hard working and…

Jamie and I initially met through a Runner’s MOT initially, following on from a string of injuries which physiotherapy had helped but not fully resolved. Jamie then got a place for the London marathon the following year, raising funds for the Mental Health Foundation. Since it would be Jamie’s first marathon, and he had a…

James stopped by my studio in June, after his Manchester marathon of 3:36:34 in April. We started working together in August but training had reduced due to work demands, so we set a target of 3:36 for New York in November since a PB was unlikely. We started with a Runner’s MOT to look at…

Jack had run a fantastic 2:47:07 in the 2022 London Marathon, but was looking to crack 2:45:00, for his return in Spring 2023, so he got in touch for a 12-week training plan. We started with a Runner’s MOT and set up drills, mobility and strength training to compliment the running sessions we’d be setting….

I met Hilary through the running club we were members at. She’d run her first marathon in 2019 in 4 hours and 1 minute, so when we began in August 2020, she was looking to run faster for her next race which didn’t have a set date due to Covid-19. Nevertheless we tested Hilary’s current…

I met Dan a few years ago when he bought a kettlebell from me, and he then booked in for a Runner’s MOT. From his MOT progress, he wanted some more targeted training together, and then moved into training for the Manchester marathon. Dan had done two previous marathons, but with a busy career and…

Craig got in touch after friends from his running club pointed him in my direction to help prepare for the London Marathon. Although we initially looked at a training plan, after the consultation we agreed that the online coaching package would be more appropriate due to Craig traveling for work at times, and a previous…

Clive and I met at the Norfolk Gazelles, just before I stepped down from the Head Coach role. Soon after, Clive got in touch to see if I had space to help him towards the UK Boston marathon. As an experienced marathon runner, with an already solid 3:24:52 PB last year at the Prague marathon,…

Switching her focus from ultra marathon running in mid-2022, to achieving a marathon PB in 2023, Claire and I set about two 12-week training blocks. The first focused on speed, seeing Claire improve her 10k time improve from 47:04 to a 43:31 PB, and then an astonishing 1:35:02 half marathon, improving her PB by 12 minutes. During Claire’s…

Before coaching, and after just a year of training, Ashley was running 1 hour 22 for a half marathon and had his sights on running under 3 hours for his first marathon. Ashley trained hard, but had several viruses which hampered training, a result of having had pneumonia years ago and his daughter starting nursery this year….

Andrew had been referred to me by several friends from his running club, as he embarked on the build up to his first marathon. In our initial conversation, Andrew said he was confident in his ability to keep going and finish the marathon no matter what, but was unsure of how to prepare in order…

Amy worked hard during her training plan, but was hampered by a couple of viruses, an occupational hazard of Amy’s work with children in an outdoor nursery. This meant the longest run Amy was able to do was 17 miles, 3 weeks out from the London Marathon. Amy run/walks, so in training we looked at finding the right…