I entered the sport of running through mountain running and swiftly progressed through almost all branches of the sport - both as a competitors, coach, administrator, journalist and race director. This provides me with nearly 360 view of anything running related.

I possessed very limited talents when I entered the sport and so sought the advice of the most successful coaches - dead or alive (through books or in person) - using particularly the philosophies of Arthur Lydiard and Percy Cerutty as my base.

I have coached hundreds of runners for thousands of hours. My favourite example is Jason Kehoe, who started as a mid-pack runner with me in 2008 but went on to win several mountain running races and two Irish championships in the decade we worked together exemplifying what can be achieved with a good coach/athlete partnership.

POSITIONS

• head coach of Glendalough AC
• Team Leader of the Irish Mountain Running development team at Snowdon 2009-2010
• Former Mountain running coach for Crusaders AC in Dublin
• Former secretary of the Irish Mountain Running Association
• Featured article writer in several magazines such as Irish Runner and Athletics Illustrated

CREDENTIALS

• MsC in Systems, Organisation and IT

• National Qualification in Neuromuscular Therapy

• UKA educated L2 Fell and Mountain running coach

• AAI L1 coach

• Lydiard Foundation certified coach

• VivoBarefoot coach / Lee Saxby BTR coach

• ND in Event and Sports Massage

• Stryd Certified Coach