Coach

	1984 – Starts running at 10 years old. First competitive road race in 198c4, age 14. It was the Huncote Half Marathon, Leicester.
	1987 – Began training under Paul Blissett at Leicester Coritanians, coach to distance running legends Craig Mochrie and Phil Makepeace.
	1996 – First international vest, 4th place in the Inter-Counties XC, and a debut half-marathon of 64 minutes in Bristol.
	1997 – Working with enigmatic coach Renato Canova in Italy leads to further improvements in road and track P.B.s from 3,000m to half marathon.
	1998 – Moves to Chamonix, France. First season of training and racing in the mountains.
	1999 – Completed a final and fairly successful track-racing season working with renowned distance running coach Arthur Lydiard.
	2001 – Working in the field of exercise physiology research and coaching middle- and long-distance at the English Academy of Sport, University of Bath.
	2002 – Now a professional mountain runner, wins second World Cup. Also finishes 3rd at Sierre-Zinal and 4th in the World Mountain Running Championships.
	2005 – First mountain marathon – Graubuenden in Lenzerheide, Switzerland. And first ultra-marathon – The Kepler in Te Anau, New Zealand.
	2008 – A career highlight – second place in the Jungfrau Marathon.
	2009 – First year as a veteran. Wins Inter-counties Fell Running Championships, runs first road marathon in 2 hrs 27 minutes, and branches out into the extreme sport of Snowshoe Racing.
	2014 – Time to call it a day as a pro mountain runner. Starts a new chapter as a full-time coach with the creation of VO2max Coaching.
	2019 – Iten, Kenya. Living and training with, and learning from, the greatest distance runners on the planet.
	2022 – Aged 52. Looking ahead to ultra-marathon racing on the road and in the mountains, including Comrades and Western States!