Coaching is mostly
listening, then
patience and
a little craft.

I’ve coached elite and everyday athletes for twenty-four years. This is where I write, record, and think aloud about the inner game of endurance sport.

Based: Brunswick Heads, NSW
Practice: Since 2000
Accreditation: Aus Triathlon Level 3, High Performance
Athletes: Elite & everyday

§ 01 · Approach

There is no trick. Training is simple, honest work, done over many years, with attention paid to what’s going on between the ears.

The body does what it’s asked.

Progression comes from consistency, patience, and a plan that fits your life, not someone else’s. We build the engine slowly, honestly, and with enough play to make it worth the effort.

Physical Read more →

ii.

The mind decides what’s possible.

Most of the ceiling people hit isn’t fitness, it’s attention, story, and fear. We work on those the same way we work on threshold: with reps, care, and honest review.

Mental Read more →

iii.

The life carries it all.

Sleep, relationships, work, food, time alone. If the life isn’t holding up, the training won’t either. Some of our best sessions are conversations.

Everything else Read more →

“The three can’t really be separated. Train the body, starve the mind and the training stops working. Every plan I write is for all three at once.”
From a coaching notebook, 2019

§ Try one now

A minute, before you keep reading.

Four in. Hold four. Four out. Hold four. We call it box breathing; athletes I coach call it, quieting the noise. Do one round and carry on.

A long swim from the Baths, before the wind

“The athletes who last aren’t the most talented. They’re the ones who learn to enjoy being uncomfortable, and to be kind to themselves about it.” Notebook, May

§ 02 · Writings