Run Form: The First Thing To Fix
Run form is where runners lose speed and pick up injuries. Why I fix it before shoes or gadgets: cadence first, then the foot and calf strength to hold it.
The Horsepower blog
Thoughts from the road, the pool and the coaching desk
Race reports, training philosophy and the odd rant, written by me over the years. The same voice you get when I coach you.
Ironman Wales 2027: What I Saw In Tenby
Four honest observations from Ironman Wales 2026 for anyone racing Tenby in 2027: gearing that suits you rather than the pros, riding to a real plan, rehearsing your fuelling for months, and respecting the recovery.
Ironman Wales - How To Beat The Dragon
A full breakdown of how to race Ironman Wales, discipline by discipline: sighting the reversed swim, the zig zags out of North Beach, gearing and composure on the bike, Heartbreak Hill, and holding rhythm across four laps of the run.
Female First, Not Female Adapted
Why I coach the female athlete as the default rather than a scaled-down version of a male plan, what the menstrual-cycle science actually says, and how I coach it honestly.
Make the Plan, Then Have the Discipline to Hold It
Why athletes blow up ignoring their own pacing plan, how wind, heat and fuelling change the numbers, and the psychology of holding back in the first hour of a race.
Don't Get Fancy Before You're Fancy
Why nailing consistency, specificity and your biggest limiter beats chasing marginal gains, and how to tell the low-hanging fruit from the clever stuff you haven't earned yet.
Why Most of Your Training Should Be Easier Than You Think
The case for sub-threshold aerobic work as the backbone of an endurance plan, why age-groupers ride too hard on easy days and too easy on hard days, and when intensity actually earns its place.
First Ironman - Into The Unknown
So after years of putting it off I finally got a job that paid enough for me to justify blowing what felt like a fortune on a race entry, my ticket to Ironman Nice 2016 was booked. I was 29 and with 30 rapidly approachin...
My Triathlon Top Tips
So since Covid-19 is trying to derail any hopes of a long race season in 2021, I thought it was worth sharing a few of my top 10 triathlon mistakes to make sure you hit the ground running when you can toe the start line.
How Not to Coach - The Art of Listening
Listening is a wonderful thing. If you do it right you can learn things, become aware of opportunities, avoid problems... the list goes on.
Plastic Plastic Plastic - A Story About Sport & Plastic Pollution
The knock at the door...
Once, Twice, Three Times an Ironman
It's 4 days since Ironman Wales and the whole weekend is beginning to sink in.
Tits Up - How to Deal with Failure
How to deal with failure... The story of the race that never was...
Everesting - Climbing The Mountain
Late one evening I got a text from a good mate... it read "do you fancy Everesting with me next year?"... Without really understanding what Everesting was I immediately replied "yeh sure thing".
Origins - A Little Bit of History
After a solid bump back down to earth at the Alpe d’Huez triathlon last week I thought putting my thoughts into words might provide me with some means of processing it all and you with some comedy plus maybe a guide to h...
Ironman Wales - Enter The Dragon
So it's 11 days until Ironman Wales and the nerves and anticipation are starting to stir...
2017 Season Wrapup - Calm After The Storm
Bar a few cross country runs, my triathlon season is all but over.
Psychology - Use Your Head
So we're 4 days until Ironman Wales... the tension, excitement and anxiety are building and at this late stage in the game there is a quiet calmness because you know nothing more can be done to improve your physical perf...