My star protégé is undoubtedly Emma Pooley: Olympic Silver medallist and World Time Trial Champion, major tour winner and multiple classic winner.

I met Emma first in October 2003 when, as a runner-turned-novice-triathlete, she first came to a Cambridge Triathlon Club turbo session (incidentally she practises the same pedalling drills on her turbo to this day).

I started coaching her formally when she started bike racing in 2005. Since then she has become one of the most accomplished, knowledgeable and self-aware athletes in the world, capable of preparing for and delivering world beating performances at major events with little or no support. She is, I believe, the ultimate vindication of my coaching philosophy.

Though I worked with Emma on every aspect of her cycling a particularly significant achievement was converting her descending from a liability into a strength – much to the amazement of her peers, her team management and everyone who follows women’s cycling.

Whilst Emma's 2008 Olympic medal and 2010 World Championship winning performances are the highlights of her career so far, her development as truly world class time triallist over recent years, enabling her to finish 3rd (2011 World Champs) and 6th (London Olympics) on flat courses has been amazing.

I also coached my wife, Heather, from novice triathlete (though she was previously a national swimming finalist) to national elite champion, GB international and professional triathlete. Heather went on to become Performance Director for British Triathlon for six years, culminating in Britain's first Olympic Triathlon medals.

I coached Will and Rosie Clarke before they left Cambridge and joined the World Class Triathlon Programme at Loughborough University. They both won national youth and junior titles and European medals. Will went on to win National Senior Elite and World U23 Championships, and compete in the Beijing Olympics.

I’ve helped a number of local cyclists gain first and elite category licenses and compete at national level.

• Following success racing in Belgium, France, Serbia and Sweden, Dave Mclean raced professionally in Italy with the Meridiana Kamen team.
• Wojciech Szlachta won British Universities (BUCS) Road and Time Trial Championships.
• Having started 2012 as a 2nd cat., Laura Massey finished 4th in the National Womens Road Race Series.

 

I’ve helped local triathletes win national, European and World age-group championships.

• Lucy Gossage followed National and European Duathlon Championship victories with a course record at Challenge Barcelona - making her one of just six British women to break 9 hours over Ironman distance.

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• Cambridge based spaniard, Esther Rodriguez, won the Triathlon England Championships.
• Georgina 'George' Schwiening won the National Junior Duathlon Championships and Silver at both European and World Junior Duathlon Champs.
• After a series of 1 to 1 cycling sessions Clare Cunningham won Silver at the 2012 World Paratriathlon Championships: "Others thought the headwind was strong but I thought the wind was ok – obviously all that training in Cambridge has made me used to it now! Thank you for all your help on the bike – it made a difference."

I currently work with a number of young triathletes through the Eastern Region Triathlon Academy. This is a long-term project. I also act as a cycling consultant and locum coach for the National Triathlon Talent Academy.