Comprehensive Athlete Questionnaire 

You journey to the finish line with your coach starts with a comprehensive athlete questionnaire, a coach/athlete meeting and an agreement on goals, ways you like to train and how we will work together. Do you like stats? Do you train to Heart Rate? Are you a Power junky? Do you like to keep it simple? Do you like to train inside on Zwift? No problem we will tailor the training to you.

Fully Bespoke Training Plan

We will write a full top level periodized plan taking from today to your A-race. This plan will cover swim, bike, run, S&C, nutrition, race planning, athlete testing, MAF, HRV and more. We will walk through this with you and you get to sign off on it. The plan will cover training, nutrition, hydration, race tips, race preparation and recovery. We can also provide off-season maintenance sessions.

Training App, Athlete Area & FB Group

You will then get FULL access to the Private Athlete site, Free Full Training Tilt App and Private FaceBook Group. The private areas have recipes, blogs, extra tips, advice, support and more. We will then distil your top level plan in to weekly drops via our App straight to your phone, tablet or PC. Each week we can review and tweak your plan based on life, family and work commitments. Your plan is always your plan. I'm also here for a chat when you need to discuss your challenges, work-life balance, goal setting, race day prep and next steps.

Race Day, Recovery & the Time In-Between

As we get closer to race day we will start to prepare your mind and body for success. Mental toughness, self talk, nutrition, hydration, packing lists and race course specific sessions. We will be there with you right up to race day - every step of the way!  After your race you will get a bespoke recovery plan.

After your recovery period you will enter your off-season which can be a challenging period. I will keep motivated and active whether it's working on areas that needs improvement, a swim, bike, run and S&C structured plan or trying something new or mastering a new skill like mountain biking, trail running, ultra racing, rowing, Swim-Run, Aquabike, Duathlon, obstacle races and more.

Karen brought me from Zero to Hero on my Ironman journey. I had never completed a triathlon and so had a lot to learn. Karen taught me and trained me with patience and motivation. She gave timely weekly plans that reflected my other commitments and enabled me to have a balance between training and work. Karen was always available for me to speak with and was able to answer questions that I had. She gave advice on nutrition, bike set up and maintenance, to name but a few. I visited Karen's training camp on a number of occasions. The facilities are great, she has an endless swimming pool that I could use as well as lots of strength and conditioning equipment. I would highly recommend Karen, she is very knowledgeable and passionate about training. She made me feel very comfortable and confident that I would achieve my goal.

Lorraine Butler, Athlete & Head Teacher

Bobby, International Teacher

I’ve been working with Karen over the last few months in the build up to the 2018 season. Karen has helped me considerably with my swim stroke through coaching sessions and training plans. I was really struggling with my breathing technique but Karen quickly fixed this and had me swimming competently after just a few sessions. The training plans and nutrition advice that she has provided have considerably improved my performance. The training plans were adjusted to my needs, feedback and goals. I liked the variety of the workouts and the intensity. I’d recommend Karen to triathletes of all levels. I hope to work with her again in the future.

Tom, UK Government, Foreign & Commonwealth Office

 I'm a new triathlete, and my experience with Karen and her training facilities over two days were fantastic. Karen was attentive, professional, and gave a good combo of encouragement and tough love. She's positive and funny and I would highly recommend working with her!

Joen, Technologist

Had a very enjoyable 5 day tri training stay at chilli tri. Karen and Sean made me feel very welcome as I was by myself, and put some preferred breakfast items in the fridge having checked what I wanted first. The room was clean and functional with a kitchen and en-suite, and the villa has excellent views and is in a very quiet area. The coaching i received from Karen during the stay was very good, particularly the swimming. She also was flexible to accommodate some changes to my schedule during the stay. The cycling through the mountains had some lovely scenery and nice descents. My only word of warning would be that Competa and the surrounding area is very hilly/steep so be prepared for that whenever going from the villa to walk, run or bike : which was good for me on a training camp! A lovely camp overall.

Phil Andrews, Finance Director

Lust finished a six week swimming course with Karen, I can highly recommended her. She helped enormously with my swimming techniques or lack of I should say. I feel now that with all of the things that she has thought me I can put into place and improve as a swimmer. I have even discussed going back to do more classes to help with both my husbands swimming and my own Thank You!

Sabrina, Business Owner