Bespoke Coaching Package
My Bespoke Coaching package provides the premium level of personal coaching support to ensure you get the challenge, enjoyment and results from your running that your hard work and commitment deserves.
What is main benefit of the Bespoke Package?
The key difference is the personal touch. Communication is the most fundamental part of any successful coaching relationship.
We keep in touch with weekly video or telephone calls in addition to daily feedback on every run and workout.
This exceptional level of communication ensures that I know what is going on for you. And you know you are doing the right training at the right time supported by my elite coaching knowledge and experience.
How do I get my Bespoke Training Plan?
Your Bespoke training plan will be on Training Peaks. The app is easy and convenient for you to see your training each day with clear explanatory notes to make sure you know what you are doing and why.
Training Peaks will download each structured workout directly on your watch or fitness device.
How do you know how I am getting on?
In addition to our regular weekly catch up calls, I can see all of the data from each run on Training Peaks and it’s easy for you to add some comments and feedback to each run via the Training Peaks app too.
By reviewing your feedback and your runs and workouts as you do them I can ensure your plan is responsive and adaptable. Which means we cut back when we need and push on when the time is right.
What if I have work, family or other commitments?
Your fully personalised training programme is tailored to fit around your work, family and other commitments to make the most of your time whether you can run every day, once a week or it varies from week to week.
You will get your training for the next two to three weeks in advance. We can discuss what amendments you might need in our weekly catch up calls.
What’s more if something comes up at short notice you can drop me a message and I will make the changes you need.
How do we get started?
We start by getting to know each other with a detailed initial assessment which can either be face to face (subject to geographical location) or via video call and look in depth at your training, fitness, running goals, running technique, movement skills, basic strength and conditioning.
The first two weeks of your plan will enable me to establish what level of training is right for you. And for you to get used to my feedback and coaching.
Will I get support with Strength and Conditioning?
As an experienced coach and elite athlete I know it’s not just about running. I will provide you with a programme to focus on running-specific strength and conditioning exercises and drills to develop your strength, improve your technique, support your running and minimise injury. This will be individually tailored to address any weaknesses and injury history.
However, poor technique (especially in heavy lifts) can be harmful so you must ensure that you have access to good quality, experienced and qualified face to face support to periodically monitor your technique in all strength work as this cannot be safely provided online.
Will I get support with nutrition?
Effective energy balance is fundamentally important for all endurance runners. This means ensuring your nutrition is sufficient and effectively planned to fuel all of the training you do. Alongside your busy life and regular day to day activities (which so many runners forget when planning nutrition).
Timing of nutrition before and after sessions and avoiding long periods of fasting is especially important for effective energy balance. You will get basic nutrition advice to support training but Running Jo does not provide detailed individual nutrition plans or advice.
Can you help me with marathon race fuelling?
This is where my experience and knowledge excel. Mid-race fuelling is key especially in the marathon to maximise your potential. But all too many runners underestimate the practice, training and planning required to get this right.
I will give you advice on different fuelling strategies and how to work out what is best for you. Then build practice fuelling in training over a sustained period of time. So that on the day you are confident in what, when and how to get the best from yourself when it counts.
Will I get a personalised race plan?
Yes. My top-level competition experience hasn’t just come from parkrun or the local 10k. It’s based on performing and competing for over ten years at the highest level in GB, elite and international competitions.
This means your personalised race plan, race day advice and strategy and post-race feedback will give you the greatest confidence and belief to successfully translate your training into performance.
What if I get injured or ill?
Injury, illness and other interruptions are an inevitable part of life and running. As a coach I work in close partnership with physios and doctors as required to ensure you get professional and timely advice and support throughout.
With my extensive experience you can be confident that you will have the right guidance to help you navigate diagnosis, rehabilitation and return to running in a safe, appropriate and timely manner.
Set up fee: £100
Bespoke monthly coaching cost: £150 per month
What's Included...
- Initial consultation to establish
- Current fitness, running history, aspirations and goals
- Race plan and target race(s)
- Any injury history and relevant health history
- Other sport and fitness activities
- Work, family and other commitments and lifestyle considerations
- Nutrition
- Detailed coaching assessment of movement patterns, technique and strength either via video or face-to-face (subject to geographical location)
- Bespoke, personalised weekly training plan personalised to fit your daily commitments and other activities set via Training Peaks app to include:
- Running training including steady running, intervals and other running sessions, guidance on effort, pace and heart rate as appropriate
- Personalised progressive programme for running exercises, technical drills and strength exercises
- Weekly video or telephone to review previous week’s training and plan the week ahead.
- Regular feedback on each run and as much two-way communication as required by you via telephone, video call, Training Peaks, message or email to provide coaching, feedback, motivation and support on training and progress.
- Basic personalised training nutrition advice and support. Full race fuelling advice and guidance.
- Advice and development of Race plan over set period of time to identify races to support target race and/or long-term training goals. Race plan fully incorporated into training plan
- Race-day advice for each event including personalised preparation, mental strategies, nutrition, pace and feedback
- Basic Training Peaks Athlete account (option to upgrade to premium account at additional £9 per month) to enable easy and convenient mutual feedback on every run and training session