Training, Performance & Human Factors - Articles for Endurance Athletes

February is always a nice month. January feels like a year in its own right, then we’re graced with a 28 day month to skip us straight into Spring. The weather also turns, generally, as we move away from the consistent rainy days and find some breaks with some sun. But February hasn’t been all sunshine and rainbows in my world. My almost one year old has been having an amazing time at nursery, so much so that he’s decided to collect every illness possible and share with us at

The crossover between sport and professional performance is one that I hold at the core of my coaching philosophy. It’s why I train athletes and professionals with a similar approach. Lessons identified in one area can be related across and applied to enhance performance. Let me prove it to you... In mid-May, I packed my bike onto the back of my car, loaded up my wetsuit and running shoes and made my way to Burghley House in Stamford. The whole way my stomach was churning wit

Technology is used in today’s society as both a help and a hinderance. We utilise it in all aspects of our lives, and sleep is no different! A 2021 study into the use of electronic devices before bedtime highlighted the impact this has upon sleep quality. So, we should be avoiding screens before bed, but how can we use other forms of technology to monitor and potentially improve our sleep?   Wearable sleep trackers have gained a lot of traction in recent years. Most devices

Everywhere you look, there is a lot more focus on sleep than there has been over the past decade. Previously people would wear the badge of ‘don’t mind me, I’m just operating on 3 hours sleep’ with pride, but the narrative has now changed. It is now widely accepted that between 7 and 9 hours of sleep is what most adults need. But where has this research come from, what is the benefit of getting sleep and (most importantly) what can a lack of sleep look like in our day to day

When flying frontline operations, I frequently found myself working varying hours. Set shifts were certainly not a thing. One day we would be needed on task at 5pm, two days later we were wanted at 3am. The biggest difficulty I found in the cumulating fatigue was not necessarily tiredness , but alertness . I was going from needing to be asleep in the late morning to rest for a night sortie, to needing to be switched on at midday to be planning for a sortie I was about to fly.