Time Trial Coaching For your fastest ride yet

Structured coaching designed around your career to build sustainable power, develop precise pacing, and lower your personal bests.

Preparing to lower your personal bests on the local club 10 or an open 25 requires precise pacing, sustained power, and real discipline. However, when you are balancing a demanding career and family commitments, finding the capacity for focused training is exceptionally difficult. Choosing to manage your own training often leads to a specific type of frustration: squeezing in random, high-intensity intervals on the turbo when you are already exhausted, guessing your threshold zones, and wondering if your mid-week efforts are building genuine sustainable power or simply flattening your legs for the weekend.

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

Through a structured partnership, I take the planning burden off your mind so you can step onto the start ramp with a clear strategy and complete belief in your preparation.

Why Your ambition might be stunting your progression

Trying to lift your threshold power and hold a sustained effort on your own often leads to common training errors. Without an experienced eye to keep your specific training load in perspective, your preparation can quickly lead to:

Logistical Friction: Squeezing demanding interval blocks or specific positioning practice into a busy working week. You end up rushing through arbitrary high-intensity efforts on the indoor trainer or trying to adjust your targets on the fly based on daily fatigue, meaning your sessions lack the exact focus required to lift your sustainable power.
Fading on the Return Leg: Spending months training hard only to misjudge your pacing and fade dramatically during the second half of a 10 or 25-mile event. This happens because your solo sessions lacked the precise target zones and pacing discipline required to manage your effort accurately against the headwind or changing terrain.
Neck and Lower Back Strain: Pushing through persistent lower back ache or deep neck stiffness from forcing yourself into a rigid position or riding over-geared for too long. This unchecked strain often leads to a forced lay-off or severe discomfort just as you want to be tapering and feeling sharp.
The Mental Echo Chamber: Over-analysing your power files, average speeds, and course conditions entirely on your own. Without an objective coach to review your training logs and validate your physiological progress, it is easy to worry that your performance has plateaued, leaving you anxious about your form before you even step onto the start ramp. v

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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 time trial 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 sustainable power, positioning endurance, and precise 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 events—whether you are targeting local club 10s or specific open 25-mile courses—to break the months ahead into distinct training blocks. We transition methodically from building a robust aerobic foundation to executing specific threshold intervals and race-pace simulations, ensuring your preparation remains entirely realistic around your professional commitments.
Precision Programming: Your sessions are mapped out in TrainingPeaks based exactly on your available training windows, whether you are completing key threshold sets on the indoor trainer or practising your pacing out on the road. I establish clear power, heart rate, and effort zones tailored to lactate threshold development and sustained power output, 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 threshold block, a high-intensity interval session, or a recovery ride 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 hard effort, how your neck and lower back are holding up when holding your position under fatigue, 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 the start ramp.

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 target time trials, club 10s, or open events. 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 threshold block, 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 step onto the start ramp feeling calm, supported, and completely ready to execute your pacing strategy and hold your position under fatigue, 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
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Free in-person sessions (e.g. Flexibility, Nutrition and more based on community needs)
20% off for multiple family members