“A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.” – Bo Bennett
Find out more about some of the F4L Triathlon Coaching athletes and why they joined F4L:
Kate McCombe
I’ve always enjoyed exercising regularly, but over the last few years I’ve been doing shift work with a long commute each day and have ended up tired and unmotivated, only managing sporadic bursts of activity. I’ve entered various events but failed to do anything to prepare for them, simply turning up plodding round and feeling like I’ve let myself down, or not even going at all. I recently got a new job close to home and so decided the time had come to take control of my life again! To give myself something to aim for, I entered a half ironman in June 2013.
Jason Corbett
I had a relatively good 2012 race season, but felt I left a lot of time and thereby positions out on the course. I could never quite put my finger on why I lost that time or why the body reacted as it did and I was determined to correct that. Coming to the end of the season, I played with the idea of working with a coach for 2013.
One piece of advice I received from a fellow triathlete was ‘find someone you can talk to and communicate with’, so following numerous discussions and email exchanges with online coaches, I dropped the idea of working with an overseas coach as I wasn’t impressed with the communications. However, one night while looking for the holy grail, I came across Paul and F4L Triathlon Coaching in 220 magazine. From the outset, I found Paul informative and engaging and so, the journey began…
Lindsay Turnbull
I came into Triathlon as a veteran, coming from a competative swimming background. I had completed a few random Triathlons over the years , but never really trained specifically for them. I decided to give Triathlon a real go in 2012, especially after competing in a couple of events early in the season and really enjoying them.However, I knew I needed more structure to my training…
Iain Pay
I joined F4L Triathlon Coaching as I had decided that by making my own schedules, I was getting ok results, but kept having injuries, and in hindsight was massively over-training. The latter having a negative impact on personal / social wellbeing, as always shattered.I joined F4L based on a recommendation from an athlete who has been getting great results, and marked improvements on his previous seasons form, I thought that I would give it a shot, as I felt I still had loads of room for improvement…
Melissa Hepburn
I wanted a new challenge outside of my busy job as a police officer and really fancied doing a triathlon, however I couldn’t swim! I took a few lessons and with the help of my fiancée Matt I learned the art of front crawl and completed my first triathlon The QE2 sprint Tri in 2011. I did a few more that year however I didn’t really know how to train and ended up being continually injured.I decided to go to Paul at F4L Triathlon Coaching for help…
Audrey Stewart
I joined F4L Triathlon Coaching in June 2012 after been involved in Triathlon for a number of years, and was aware of triathletes being coached by Paul and saw what they achieved, so after putting my triathlon career on hold for 3 years while my Daughter went to University I promised myself the first thing I was going to do was join F4L Coaching. I have spent many wasted hours picking Training Plans off the net which were not specific to my needs and as usual I would end up injured over trained and my training was stale and I never really competed to my full potential…
Gary Wilson
I joined F4L Triathlon Coaching early season in 2011. This was after a dull winter and early season disappointment. I went on that year (July) to win a bronze medal at the European Sprint Champs in Ponteverdra. I had known Paul through his role with British Triathlon. We met whilst I completing my level 1 Coaching course, so I already knew of his personality and approachability. From day one it was clear that Paul has clear and concisie training methods. Even within the first week I was completing new and fresh sessions which really motivated me.
David Wilson (no relation)
I joined F4L Triathlon Coaching because after several years of making improvements I had a season where I had reached a plateau. I was doing my own training and was training harder, but not seeing the results in races. This started to have a negative effect on my motivation and enjoyment of the sport.
During 2013 my target is to win a medal at the 2013 World Age Group Championships. I’ve medalled at the Europeans a couple of times but this year I want…
Richard Agan
I joined F4L Triathlon Coaching because I was new to the sport of Triathlon and although I was running regularly I had no experience with swimming and biking yet alone how I would go about training for all three sports all together. After a swim technique session with Paul he mentioned his triathletes’ training plans. He explained he could set plans to improve my swimming and biking. Over the years I have improved my swim threshold pace and built up a good basis for my biking getting stronger and stronger each year from the good intense winter training. My main target for 2013 is…
Darren Phillips
I found Paul and F4L Triathlon Coaching by mistake really as I was struggling to find anyone locally who could help me train for triathlon and more importantly Ironman Wales. In one last ditch attempted I used Google and found Paul’s details. I am based near Bath whilst Paul lives near Scotland somewhere… you may think that this is not ideal but to be honest the distance really doesn’t make a difference.From day one Paul has always been on hand…
Stef Economides
I joined F4L Triathlon Coaching because I was finding it difficult to wade through and make sense of all the information in magazines and books regarding triathlon training. My goal (before I get too old!) is to do at least one Ironman and I signed up for IM Kalmar in Sweden for August 2013 and threw in 70.3 St Polten, Austria in May 2013 as a “training race” for good measure. My triathlon training in the past has been haphazard and hasn’t involved any structure…
Matt Holt
I initially got in touch with F4L Triathlon Coaching after doing a few triathlons with my own training but was not seeing any improvement. I had hit a plateau, was bored doing the same sort of things and had no idea how to progress.Paul was really approachable and explained how the coaching would work and was keen to find out what I wanted to get out of it. The plans are simple and easy to access and follow
Anita Clark
After completing my first half iron man distance event this year, I decided that I would like to attempt a full iron man. My partner Iain has a coach and we decided that in order to get through the training with a healthy body and mind that I would embark on the same journey. In the past I have suffered with knee injuries etc due to over training and wanted to do things differently.
Paul Common
I’m about to start my third season in Triathlon. My first season was about making it over the finish line in Sprint and then Standard distance events. The year past I hoped to improve a lot and I knew I could beat my previous race times. It was during this time that I knew my training approach wasn’t optimal. There was almost no plan to my training. I did what I fancied on the day. In an attempt to improve my training I cobbled sessions together from information gleaned from magazines and the internet but have never had the confidence to know these were right from me…
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