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 all over the world always...

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

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

Coming to Svalbard was my dream for a long time and the timing of its yearly marathon could not be better; 1 June 2024...

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

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

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

Massive thank you Jane for sharing this great adventure. I am relatively new to running but not that new to endurance sport, racing and challenges....

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

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

I’m a ball player. Not an athlete. And certainly not an endurance athlete. So, at 45 years old and well into middle-age, how did...

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

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 lady called Vanessa. Vanessa was...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

LOVE BIKE PACKING? HOW ABOUT TAKING ON A TWO WEEK, 2500 KM ADVENTURE ACROSS THE UK? Having spent much of lockdown run-training for events that...

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

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 was not 100% sure when...

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

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

Last week I did a podcast on endurance, adventure and working as a coach in this industry. I was not sure what to expect...

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

Working with and training with dangerous environment athletes has shown me how important the psychology training we do is. Not only must I get...

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 the many other amazing blogs.

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

“How do I get through an endurance event mentally?” is a question that regularly comes up in conversations or on forum chats, with the...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

As cyclists, a good bike position for comfort and performance is essential, adapting it to our riding preferences, whether we’re racing short events, multi...

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

We start each day with a mountain to climb and for many of us, the start of a mountain is the hardest part. Why? The...

I read somewhere once that, “success is firstly finding your happy place and secondly, getting paid to go there...” I don’t think there’s a better...

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

These words are banded around a lot in the mountain culture and have made their way into all the various sports that I regularly...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

WEMBO European 24hr MTB Championships – Penafiel, Portugal September 2019 Flying to Portugal for European 24hr Championships brought many new experiences including flying with a...

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

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

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