Endurance Sport Coaching

Hey, I’m James and I’m a kidney transplant patient who loves a big adventure. I’ve taken part in adventures...

Earlier this year I was delivered the news that my job was at risk of redundancy and that I’d...

I recently returned from a 9-day trek to Langtang Valley and Gosaidkunda. Here’s the story: In late Spring 2023, having...

Coming to Svalbard was my dream for a long time and the timing of its yearly marathon could not...

I was standing at about 1,300m, blinking up through the mist and drizzle at the small rocky outcrop that...

Iceland and Scandinavia are becoming increasingly popular for snow sports. With social media flooded with beautiful chalets,...

Jasmine Paris’ recent triumph at the Berkely Ultra has rightly caused a stir. Both the first female to ever...

Massive thank you Jane for sharing this great adventure. I am relatively new to running but not that new to...

This was it, the big one. Well, the big one before the ‘real’ big one! For some, crossing Greenland...

My running story is a relatively short one really, I started in 2021 after slipping on a patch of...

I’m a ball player. Not an athlete. And certainly not an endurance athlete. So, at 45 years old and...

I did not set out to be the first. If I'm completely honest, I only realised several months after...

Introduction I first heard about the Tour Aotearoa (TA) http://www.touraotearoa.nz/p/home.html on an Adventure Syndicate training camp in January 2020 from a...

And just like that it was over. I could not wrap my head around the fact that I was...

An unremarkable human, 1250km of unsupported adventure, a misplaced helmet, a grin and a sore bum. After a much longer...

It was great to have the opportunity to work on Anna's training for this round, given her amazing confidence...

It's been great working with Sally on her come back into some racing, E3coach have worked with Sally for...

This article is about busting the myth around social media and how we actually get to achieve these amazing...

This is my simple approach to early mornings, when I really don’t feel like getting on it, as always,...

Welcome to the golden age of endurance in adventure. Massive physical feats of over vast wild spaces and huge...

I hope by writing this to clear up some confusion between drive and motivation and how we can start...

I worry sometimes that the F word is getting lost. And whilst it’s not good for our sports, it’s...

LOVE BIKE PACKING? HOW ABOUT TAKING ON A TWO WEEK, 2500 KM ADVENTURE ACROSS THE UK? Having spent much of...

I want to discuss a common occurrence that happens when training for endurance events or adventure challenges. When I mention...

Follow the link below to listen to my interview and check out the over 40's community of adventurous people. https://legendlifeafter40.com/stories/jon-fearne/ I...

At 44 years old and 12 months out from a brain haemorrhage and subsequent surgery to remove a tumour,...

We have all heard the phrase “whatever you do don’t look down” this is often used when we are...

Last week I did a podcast on endurance, adventure and working as a coach in this industry. I was...

This article shares a training method I use with road and XC cyclists to add specific strength/muscular endurance to...

Working with and training with dangerous environment athletes has shown me how important the psychology training we do is....

A little read into 2020 as a professional endurance and adventure coach, what a crazy year. Go check out https://www.theforgeblog.co.uk/together-series plus...

There is a time and a place that the aforementioned Junk miles become a whole lot more thank Junk. We...

“How do I get through an endurance event mentally?” is a question that regularly comes up in conversations or...

Some riders swear by them, others aren’t so convinced. Oval chainrings can be a bit marmite, but are certainly...

I have always enjoyed trail running. Over the years I have ran further and faster than I once thought...

It is such an important part of anyone’s event or race yet is so overlooked and gets lost behind...

As a coach, I spend so much time debunking crazily complicated training models and ideas that athletes bring to...

More so than ever working as a coach is not about goals, results or events, it’s about caring for...

I wanted to address this topic again, as in the current climate many athletes are losing sight of training...

1.       Different surfaces mean very different things to a tyre: It’s difficult to describe the joy gained from seeing...

Purpose, belonging, teamwork, camaraderie – this is what the British Army gave me.  I spent over a decade of...

In February 2018, a few months of feeling unwell, my life was turned upside down when I was diagnosed...

As cyclists, a good bike position for comfort and performance is essential, adapting it to our riding preferences, whether...

High Power is a way of thinking with higher expectations and achieving richness in body and mind. A quest...

We start each day with a mountain to climb and for many of us, the start of a mountain is...

I read somewhere once that, “success is firstly finding your happy place and secondly, getting paid to go there...” I...

The only race I did last year was the Pembrokeshire Ultra 34 miler.  Jon coached me for it as...

These words are banded around a lot in the mountain culture and have made their way into all the...

So how was it that a complete none runner ended up here, 3 days into a 5 day ultra,...

I’m sure I can’t be alone on this one? You and your partner are looking for a short break or...

We had the option to delay when we saw the forecast mid-week. It was looking decidedly sub-optimal (and that’s...

Mountain guiding is unsurprisingly a strenuous profession, however as with anything it seems to get’s easier over time.  Being...

Failing in the outdoors is an important and necessary process in order to develop yourself. The modern ‘mountain athlete’ must...

I have learnt a few things from long distance bikepack riding, namely about bike set up and products which...

Skiing solo to the South Pole was physically hard. It was without doubt the hardest thing I’ve ever done....

Training during isolation We have been thrown into a crazy time with many people only allowed to leave their homes...

The Little Things I have found that as an athlete and coach, focusing on the little things can sometimes have...

In a world where we see on a daily (even minute to minute) the bodies of amazing athletes and...

Nowadays it’s hard not to notice all the tech surrounding the endurance and adventure sports world, every day in...

There is sometimes confusion on whether we should be using strength work in our training and what type of...

I am going to start this article with, its meant to be FUN.   Working with endurance and adventure athletes has...

This is topic is really important to riders of all levels as it can affect anyone. As a coach I...

Great friend and former E3C rider Sam Pantling was tasked with bike packing around Faroe and making a great...

Traveling to events around the world and listening to athletes talk about their training, keeps showing me a recurring...

WEMBO European 24hr MTB Championships – Penafiel, Portugal September 2019 Flying to Portugal for European 24hr Championships brought many new...

Over the last five years I have been working with Jon with the primary aim of not making a...

This all began last winter with my goal of climbing 100,000m on skis. With a dry start to the...

The next available home workout will appear here for The Beyond Recovery Project: - Welcome to all those using these...