Triathlon Coaching Legend, expert coach and famous author shares his knowledge of the sport over the past few years, and explores how in a sport where experience and events count for so much, how can we continue to best gather experience without racing.

Joe Friel

Joe is a life-long athlete and has a masters degree in exercise science.

He has trained and conferred with amateur and professional endurance athletes from a wide variety of sports since 1980. Based on this experience he cofounded TrainingPeaks.com in 1999 with son Dirk Friel and friend Gear Fisher. He currently coaches only a few athletes.

He mostly focuses on training emerging top-level coaches on best practices in preparing endurance athletes for competition. This regularly takes him to coaching seminars around the world. He also consults with corporations in the sports and fitness industry and with national Olympic governing bodies worldwide. His Training Bible books for road cyclists, mountain bikers, and triathletes are used by several national sports federations to train their coaches.

Friel’s philosophy and methodology for training athletes was developed over more than 40 years and is based on his strong interest in sport science research and his experience training hundreds of athletes with a wide range of abilities. His views on matters related to training for endurance sports are widely sought and have been featured in such publications as VeloNews, Bicycling, Outside, Runner’s World, Women’s Sports & Fitness, Men’s Fitness, Men’s Health, American Health, Masters Sports, The New York Times, Triathlete, 220, and many more.

Joe lives and trains in the mountains of Sedona, Arizona.

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This session pools together industry leaders from within our sport and poses the question of “ what will triathlon look like going forwards. Are there any lessons we can learn from this current situation and apply going forwards?

Join our panel of experts and hear what they have to say about the 'new normal‘.

Panel guests include;

Matt Baird - Features Editor, 220 Triathlon

Matt is an experienced sports journalist and published triathlon author with experience in writing, commissioning and editing copy, covering Triathlon events and expos around the world.

He recently completed a a half-Ironman triathlon in his Bristol garden (featuring a 2.6m paddling pool, static bike and half-marathon run) to promote keeping fit while on lockdown, while raising money for the NHS Charities Together.

Tarsh Wendt - Founder of Stomp the Pedal

Tarsh is a London based Aussie, and founder of activewear label Stomp The Pedal. She’s a podcaster, motivational speaker and multiple Ironman triathlete.

Dirk Friel - Co Founder of Training Peaks

Dirk Friel is co-founder and Chief Evangelist of TrainingPeaks and Peaksware. He has been helping age-group athletes, Olympians and World Champions track, analyze and plan their training for more than 20 years

Joanne Murphey

Joanne Murphy is the voice behind Tri Talking Sport.  An accomplished event MC, live presenter and international sports announcer working with brands and events across a wide range of sectors. She is the host of the sports podcast 'Tri Talking Sport' launched in May of this year. 

Gary Roethenbaugh

Gary has amassed extensive experience of the endurance sport industry in areas as diverse as consumer research, market quantification and strategic advice. A two-time IRONMAN finisher, he is a committed mid-pack athlete!

Gary is the founder of MultiSport Research (MSR), established in 2010 with a single mission: to be the most successful, creative and ground-breaking consulting agency for the international endurance sport industry.

Presented by Paul Kaye

Paul has been an announcer for over 30 years after starting out as a DJ at a radio station in Cape Town, South Africa, at the age of 20.

He is a two-time IRONMAN finisher and has been an announcer at IRONMAN events all over the world.

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We’ve brought together some of the top coaches in the UK in a collaborative approach to help answer your questions surrounding current training protocols, dealing with a shortened season and how to keep sharp when training facilities are limited.

Coach line up includes;

Alan Ward

Alan has a Masters Degree in Coaching Science and is a BTF Level 3 Qualified Coach, who also holds an ASA L2 Teaching Qualification.

Coaching online athletes with Tri Training Harder since 2014 Alan has worked with a wide spectrum of athletes from beginner, to youth and junior elite athletes through to Ironman Kona Finishers.

Prior to this Alan has coached within a club setting since 2007 predominantly taking swimming sessions for the clubs he has coached within. Taking many athletes from the very basics of front crawl up to competing confidently at a variety of distances in open water. Alan believes in having a flexible approach to working with athletes in order to be able to respond to the individuals needs and responsiveness to different approaches to training.

Simon Ward

Simon is the founder and co-owner of TheTriathlonCoach.com (with Jack Maitland)

He began the tri-coaching journey back in 1995 when personal training clients asked him to help them complete their first triathlon. At the time there were very few triathlon coaches and no formal coach education programme in the UK. As soon as the then BTA offered the L2 award (and subsequently L3) Simon applied, studied and qualified as one of the UK’s first L3 triathlon coaches.

Since that time he has gone on to become the leading tutor for British Triathlon, writing and delivering much of the current L3 course.

Lucy Hurn

Lucy is a level 3 triathlon coach, personal trainer, sports massage therapist and endurance athlete, and is passionate about helping others achieve their goals, from doing their first 5k run, up to Ironman and beyond.

She strongly believes that it's not just about your time over the finish line, but how you got there.

Robert Griffiths

Rob is a performance psychologist who works as an executive coach and facilitator for business leaders. He also works with professional and age group athletes. 

Since playing professional squash in his teens and early twenty’s, Rob has been fascinated with an individual’s abilities to improve their performance, develop talent and tap into potential.

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We’re going to take a ‘look under the hood’ with some of the best in the industry, and find out how both mind and body are being impacted by the global pandemic.

Our panel of experts will take a look at the medical advice on COVID-19, the physical impact on your body and how you can make sure you are ready to restart proper training again without increasing the risk of injury.

We’ll delve into how external stresses may mean you need to adjust your load as well as discover how we can learn to cope through a better understanding of ourselves, through the lock down.

Guests include;

Gordon Bosworth - Clinical Director, Physiotherapist & Consultant

Gordon spent his formative years in the Royal Air Force (1976–1992) as a member of the Physical Education Branch.

He has been the Senior Governing Body Physiotherapist to the British Bobsleigh and Bob-Skeleton Team (1996–2006, including four years as Performance Director) and was a member of the Great Britain teams at the Winter Olympic Games in Nagano, Japan (1998), Salt Lake City, USA (2002), and Torino, Italy (2006).

Gordon was Medical Lead for the Canadian Speed Skating Team at the Vancouver Olympic Games (2010) and Chief Physiotherapist to UK Athletics/British Athletics at the London Olympic Games (2012).

Gordon has been a Consultant to several professional football teams, including Bolton Wanderers, Liverpool, Wigan Athletic, Derby County, QPR and Sunderland.

Gordon currently acts as a Consultant to London Irish RFC, as well as to several track and field athletes

Dr. Mark Bellamy PhD, Cpsychol, AFBPsS - Performance Psychologist.

Mark has worked in sports for over thirty years, initially as an exercise physiologist, strength and conditioning and coaching squash, and for the previous eighteen years as a performance psychologist.

After initially completing a BSc in Psychology at Birmingham University in the 1980’s, his work took him into more physical aspects of sport. However after being involved in a serious car accident in my late 20’s, I was no longer able to follow this line of work and decided to continue my studies and work more within Sport and Performance Psychology.

Mark completed a PhD at Manchester Metropolitan University and during that time also qualified as a Sport Psychologist. I have worked in that area now for many years as well as maintaining my links with physical performance through advising in this area and through the development of equipment linked to the transfer of training into performance, working with athletes from many sports from development though to elite performers and Olympic medallists and world champions.

Doctor Nicola Keay BA, MA (Cantab), MB, BChir, MRCP - Sports and Dance Endocrinologist

Nicky was awarded a BA in Medical Tripos and medical qualifications MB, BChir from Cambridge University and after passing post graduate medical examinations to become a Member of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP), she gained extensive clinical and research experience in Endocrinology and Sport/Dance and Exercise Medicine involving elite athletes, professional ballet dancers and young aspiring athletes.

As a Research Fellow at St Thomas’ Hospital she was part of the international medical team working to develop a test to detect athletes doping with growth hormone, supported by the International Olympic Committee.

My other research studies investigated the effects of training and nutrition on the Endocrine system, body composition and bone mineral density, supported by medical research awards.

Simon Wegerif - Inventor, HRV & recovery expert & MD at myithlete.com

Simon is a serial entrepreneur, inventor, and HRV & recovery expert.

He was previously an executive with Philips Electronics in the UK and Silicon Valley.

Simon is a competitive cyclist and has also completed a number of triathlons including Ironman distance.

He created ithlete, the leading, scientifically founded HRV app in 2009 after identifying an opportunity for using HRV in his own training. He is considered an expert on the topic, having read over 1500 papers. Simon frequently consults with health & fitness industry experts, and on biomedical and cardio-respiratory vital signs.

Dr. James Brown - Sports Medicine Doctor

James has worked in professional Sports since 1996. Starting out as a club Doctor in Rugby League - following his Father’s footsteps ( Ex GB International player ) - and Team Doctor for Yorkshire County Cricket with Vaughan and Gough Sidebottom and one Darren Lehmann.

He then moved codes to England Rugby Union and spent 3 seasons with them through the six nations and World Cup.

After this James concentrated on his hospital career, building up clinical technical expertise, with time in training at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital.

Finishing his Sports Medicine training in 2007 James took up a specialist post in Leeds working at Chapel Allerton Hospital increasing my skills in diagnostic ultrasound us guided procedures and spinal work.

In 2012 he joined British Triathlon and has looked after the Brownlee Brothers and a host of Olympic Triathletes ever since.

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Join former Zwift Academy Tri athlete and now full time professional, Ruth Astle as she leads this Category A ride with some other pro friends. Ruth is taking part in this ride as part of the TRIsolation Live Show, follow the action live online throughout the day.

Dial-in your shifters, because you’re going to use them a bunch during Stage 2. This rollercoaster of a route includes loads of micro-climbs and short descents!

Route: Tour for All 2020: Stage 2 Group Ride

Distance: 29km / 13.9km / 20km

Ride Leader: Former Zwift Academy Triathlete and now full time professional, Ruth Astle

Follow the instructions below and get a sweat on for this steady lunchtime loop.

1) Log into Zwift

2) Select the group ride here

3) To join, just click the ride - “12.00 Stage 2 ride for all – Special Guest”

Catch up with the pros and find out how they have been coping with the vast changes to the race season due to COVID-19 and how their training and race approach may differ to that of the age groupers in this Pro lock-down panel, featuring;

Ruth Astle

Having achieved her goal of first Age Grouper overall in Kona 2019, Ruth is excited to embark on a new journey to pursue triathlon professionally.

Having juggled triathlon alongside a very intense job for the last 4 years, she’s looking forward to going down to working one day a week to give more time for training and sleeping!

Nikki Bartlett

Nikki was born and raised in Cheltenham, where she spent her school years at Cheltenham Bournside School and Sixth Form Centre.

She filled all her my spare time doing every sport possible, mainly concentrating in Athletics and Hockey. ​

Nikki graduated from the University of Birmingham, gaining a First Classification with Hons, in 2008. This is where she fell in love with rowing, gaining multiple GB University Medals. 

In 2009 she tested on the Girls For Gold Initiative by UK Sport (to find future Olympians), and from here was selected onto the GB Rowing World Class Start system. A successful career ended in multiple rib-stress fractures and she fell into Triathlon through a friend suggesting a Half Ironman, then a full (IM Bolton in 2011) for charity.

Quickly gaining the 'tri bug' Nikki switched sports in 2012. Going 'Pro' was always the aim, and in 2015 after winning the European AG Championships and coming 2nd overall (as an Ager at IM Wimbleball 70.3) in 2014, she made the jump into Pro life.

George Peasgood

George represented ParalympicsGB at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games and was due to compete in Toykyo later this year. He is based at the Loughborough Triathlon Performance Centre.

George has won two GBR Paratriathlon National Championships (2015, 2019) as well as competing at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games in which he placed 7th. George has recorded several ITU and ETU medal winning performances, including bronze at the Tokyo 2020 Test Event and gold at both the Lausanne and Yokohama ITU Paratriathlon World Cup (2018).

George first started triathlon in 2009 following a leg lengthening operation. Two years later, in 2011, he was classified as a Paratriathlete at a British Triathlon Talent ID day. In 2013, he won his first major medal, a bronze at the ITU World Championships in London - at 17 years old - that made him one of the youngest paratriathlon medallists. George went on to his first Paralympic Games as the youngest member of the paratriathlon team in Rio 2016. He was first out of the water and led during the bike section. He was overtaken during the run, his weakest discipline due to his impairment, and finished seventh.

Most athletes in his classification have arm, rather than leg impairments. This means that George usually gains a lead during the swim section of races, but he is at a disadvantage during the run due to his leg impairments. This makes his classification particularly exciting to watch as the faster runners come through in the latter stages.

Will Munday

Sport has always been a huge part of Will's life - Growing up he played rugby, cricket and is akeen skier.

As a child he competed in a handful of kids races but he didn't really get into triathlon until the summer of 2013, after his final season of playing rugby.

2014 saw his first proper season of racing, where he predominantly raced sprint distances along side a couple of standard distance triathlons. Now he has taken the leap into the age-group elite and finished as the fastest British age-grouper at the IRONMAN 70.3 World Championships in 2019.

Presented by TTH Coach, Diogo Custodio

Triathlon Coaching started for Diogo in 2010 when he was invited by Sporting Lisbon to start coaching the Triathlon School. Realising that coaching with only the level 2 wasn’t enough, Diogo decided complete his degree in Physical Education and Sports. While at University, Diogo started to coach at some training camps in the South of Portugal and was soon an integrated part of the coaching team for the Junior Portuguese National Team at both events and camps.

After completing his degree, Diogo was invited to join the Portuguese Triathlon Federation as the Coaching Development Director, organising several Coaching Courses and CPD’s. At the same time, Diogo has been joined several High Performance athletes through World and European Triathlon Cups and Championships. In 2017 he did his Level 3 coaching qualification in Madrid, Spain giving him an impressive insight to the world of high performance sport and how to find the extra edge. The experience gained at many levels of triathlon gave him a very understanding on how the triathlon world works as well as how to get the very best out of all athletes, from beginner to the very top level elite athletes.

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Our Nutrition panel will explore how we can improve our fuelling habits during this time of lock-down, in order to become a better, more refined athlete when we come out the other side.

Find out what can you do to boost your immunity, and how can hydration can keep you healthy as well as how to prepare for the next training session or race in an indoor setting with our panel of guests;

Asker Jeukendrup - Leading Exercise Physiologist and Sports Nutritionist

Following an MSc in Human Movement Sciences at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, Asker completed his PHD in 1997 exploring the “Aspects of carbohydrate and fat metabolism during exercise”. Over the years he developed experience in measuring metabolism using stable isotopic tracer techniques and mass spectrometer. His research focused on the interaction between nutrition and exercise.

He started as a lecturer at the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences at Birmingham University in 1998 and became a Professor in Exercise Metabolism in 2005. He was the academic Director of the Human Performance Laboratory and Director of Research for the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences.

 In 2011 Asker became the Global Senior Director of Exercise Physiology in PepsiCo. In this role he headed up the Gatorade Sports Science Institute based in Illinois, USA directing a global operation with labs in the USA, UK and Mexico.

 Asker is currently a visiting Professor at Loughborough University and the Director of mysportscience.

Helen Money - Nutritionist

Helen has over 10 years experience as a nutritionist and holds a BSc (Hons) in Human Nutrition from the University of Westminster and a PG cert in Applied Sports Nutrition from St Mary’s University, Twickenham.

Formerly a fund manager, she worked in the City for 16 years and knows the stresses that work can put on health. A good diet is essential to sustaining energy levels, stamina and to performing well.

She provides advice and diet plans to support clients in a range of areas including weight loss, stress, cognitive function, fatigue, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, health maintenance and sports nutrition. Helen also has experience of working with athletes competing at world championship level in a range of sports through to enthusiastic amateurs, many with podium finishes.

Helen practices from The Bosworth Clinic a leading clinic in sport rehabilitation, and is nutritionist to the Oxford University Blues sports teams as well as Tri Training Harder and TLA Fitness.

She has previously worked for the Nutrition Society and is also a consultant to Cambridge University Press working on The British Journal of Nutrition, Public Health Nutrition and the Journal of Nutritional Science.

Andrew Blow - Sports Scientist and Founder of Precision Hydration

Andy is a Sports Scientist with a degree in Sports and Exercise Science from the University of Bath. An expert in sweat, dehydration and cramping, Andy previously worked as the Team Sports Scientist for the Benetton and Renault Formula 1 teams, and remains an adviser to the Porsche Human Performance Centre.

An elite level triathlete in his younger days, Andy has finished in the top-10 of Ironman and IM 70.3 races, as well as winning an Xterra World title.

It was Andy's own struggles with cramp and hydration that led to him specialising in electrolyte replenishment and founding Precision Hydration. 

Andy is a leading figure in the world of sports hydration and has worked alongside Dr Raj Jutley, as well as other top sports scientists, to co-author a number of studies and books.

Presented by Jay Luke

Jay is best know for his work announcing the Australian triathlon race series and the IRONMAN UK races including Ireland, Wales and Weymouth.

Jay usually spends the summer over in the UK but this year we may have to wait a little longer before we see him we are delighted to have him in the conference.

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