Sportive and Long-Distance Cycling Coaching

Structured remote programming designed around your career to build endurance, manage your training volume, and ensure you finish your century ride with pride.

Preparing for a challenging sportive or a 100-mile century ride requires considerable time in the saddle. However, when you are balancing a demanding career and family commitments, finding the space for consistent training is exceptionally difficult. Choosing to manage your own training often leads to a specific type of frustration: squeezing in unstructured weekend miles when you are already exhausted, guessing your pacing zones, and wondering if your mid-week rides are building real stamina or simply causing deep fatigue.

With over 14 years of endurance coaching experience, I understand the unique challenge of preparing for major cycling events around a busy professional life. You do not need random, exhausting miles that leave you drained for the working week; you need physiologically sound, structured programming that respects your recovery time and fits into your calendar.

Through a structured remote partnership, I take the planning burden off your mind so you can clip in for every ride with a clear plan and complete belief in your preparation.

Why Your ambition might be stunting your progression

Trying to build the endurance needed for a major long-distance ride on your own often leads to common training errors. Without an experienced coach to keep your total training volume in perspective, your preparation can quickly lead to:

Logistical Friction: Waking up on a Saturday morning unsure how to fit a four-hour endurance ride around family commitments, or constantly trying to play catch-up by cramming missed mid-week sessions into consecutive days.
Hitting the Wall Early: Spending months riding hard only to suffer from severe fatigue, cramping, or a complete drop in power during the final 30 miles of your target event. This happens because your solo training lacked the specific pacing discipline and structured nutrition strategies required for the final hours of a long day out.
Knee and Back Strain from Panic Volume: Pushing through early signs of knee discomfort or lower back stiffness because you feel you must hit a specific weekly mileage to survive the climbs. This unchecked loading often leads to a forced lay-off just as you should be starting your taper.
The Mental Echo Chamber: Over-analysing your average speeds and Garmin data entirely on your own. Without an objective coach to validate your development, it is easy to worry that you haven’t done enough climbing or volume, leaving you anxious about your capability before you even reach the start line.

Stuart - 1:1 Coached Athlete

“Chris has trained me ‘remotely’ (I live in southern Germany) for the past few months now. During that time, under his guidance, I’ve achieved significant (cycling) gains: Notably PBs in two on my target events for 2026 (Wõrthersee: UCI World Series Gravel Race & Rando Imperator).

The training program he has produced for me is progressive & effective, but flexible enough to adjust to ‚life‘ when required. Chris has always been available for training feedback & motivational support; in my case by text and video-call. Many thanks for the support thus far.”

Training Built Around You

Efficient Endurance combines structured, science-informed programming with your actual weekly availability and who you are as a person.

We remove the uncertainty from long-distance cycling preparation by aligning your training intensity with your career and lifestyle constraints. Through our coaching partnership, we manage your progression and recovery as a team, ensuring you build the endurance, climbing stamina, and pacing discipline needed to arrive at the start line healthy, prepared, and confident.

No rigid templates. Just a collaborative, hands-on partnership.

How We Work Together

Strategic Phase Planning: We reverse-engineer your target sportive or cycling challenge to break the months ahead into distinct training blocks. We transition methodically from building a robust aerobic base to executing event-specific climbing preparation and long-distance pacing strategies, ensuring your preparation remains entirely realistic around your professional commitments.
Precision Programming: Your rides are mapped out in TrainingPeaks based exactly on your available training windows, whether outdoors on the road or on an indoor trainer mid-week. I establish clear power, heart rate, and effort zones tailored to sustained endurance and threshold development, adjusting your target intensities based on how your body is adapting and recovering.
Dynamic Load Management: We manage your training load side-by-side through regular WhatsApp contact and formal weekly reviews. When professional travel or family schedules shift, we adapt the sessions together so you never have to guess how to safely modify a critical weekend endurance ride or a structured mid-week turbo session on your own.
Collaborative Progress Reviews: We look far beyond the numbers and power graphs on your screen. Our check-ins focus on how you actually felt during a long ride, how your neck and lower back are holding up under increased saddle time, your energy levels around a busy working week, and your overall well-being. Having a dedicated coach to talk through your training notes provides an objective, reassuring partner, helping you stay clear-headed and confident as you progress toward your event.

2 Week Free Trial and Unlimited Coach Contact As Standard

Trust takes time and we understand that. It’s why we offer everyone 2 weeks free coaching before any payment.

We also offer unlimited Coach Contact as standard. Why should you be limited to only having a discussion once a week?

EXECUTE ON RACE DAY

The ultimate goal of our partnership is to remove the pressure and isolation that often comes with training solo for a target sportive, century ride, or long-distance cycling challenge. Working together means you have an experienced coach in your corner to listen, understand your weekly routines, and guide you through the real-world challenges of your build-up. Whether you need a trusted sounding board after a demanding week at work, reassurance when balancing cumulative fatigue, or guidance to keep your pacing in perspective during a hard mid-week turbo session or a demanding hill effort, I am here to support you.

When you have consistent, one-to-one contact with a coach who genuinely understands your lifestyle and career constraints, the anxiety around your preparation disappears. Sharing this progression side-by-side ensures you clip into your pedals at the start line feeling calm, supported, and completely ready to execute your pacing and nutrition strategy, knowing every block of training has been tailored to you as an individual.

If you are ready to see how a personal, relationship-led coaching approach can support your goals, the next step is a brief introductory call.

£ 120 per month

Personalised training plan
Regular feedback & accountability
Message your coach anytime
Free in-person sessions (e.g. Flexibility, Nutrition and more based on community needs)
20% off for multiple family members