I am a family man with a wife and one son. I taught in the state secondary school sector for 38 years, including 12 years as a senior leader, leadership coach and with time out to train teachers at Oxford University. In 2014 I decided to retrain as a Personal Trainer and combine the skills I had developed as an educator with my 40 years of experience as a competitive athlete.

Whilst participating in a variety of team sports (Football, Rugby, Cricket) in my teenage years, I moved into athletics in the late 1970’s and competed as a county standard track, cross country and road runner, with a half marathon personal best of 69 minutes and 31 minute 10 km.

Over a number of years in the 1980’s I made the transition to the then new sport of triathlon and have competed on a consistent basis since then, both representing Britain as an Age group athlete (Hamburg 2007) and completing my first Ironman race in 2015 at the age of 60 in 13 hours.