These are the questions that come up in every first conversation. I answer them here the way I answer them on the phone.
Everything is personalised. The plan, but also the way I follow you.
I start from four things: your personal life, your work, the goal you're aiming at and the state you're in right now. Two runners preparing for the same race won't get the same plan from me. They don't have the same weeks, the same running past, or the same head.
That's also why the plan moves. A week where everything goes sideways doesn't get made up, it gets rewritten.
Mental preparation gets dedicated support of its own in the Ultra plan.
A reply the same day. That's a rule I hold myself to.
After every key session, I look at what was done and how it went. I give you my feedback. Not an acknowledgement of receipt, real feedback on what the session produced.
There are two moments around a race. Before, we prepare the strategy, the fuelling, how to handle the rough patches. After, we take the time to talk about how it felt, what happened out there and what we take from it for next time. That debrief is part of every bespoke plan.
You can reach me by chat and by text, with no cap on the number of messages, and I reply the same day.
My hours are 8am to 6pm, Monday to Friday. And I stay reachable at weekends, especially around races. That's when you most need someone on the end of the line, not when I disappear.
With me, three bespoke plans : €65 a month for Endurance, €85 for Performance, €105 for Ultra. No commitment, cancel whenever you like.
There's also a €19 a month plan, Beginner, with a ready-made programme each month. It isn't bespoke and I don't present it as such.
The first conversation is free. We look together at what fits your situation, and sometimes I'll tell you that you don't need me yet.
A free plan is a template. It was written for an average runner who doesn't exist.
It doesn't know you have three children and endless working weeks. It doesn't know you're coming back from six months off. It doesn't move when your life moves.
To get going and build the habit of running regularly, it can do the job. To chase a specific goal, that's where it falls down.
A remote coach has to be precise. The instructions must be clear, the feedback detailed, and questions and doubts answered quickly. Otherwise distance turns into absence.
An in-person coach is there for the session, but not beside you for the rest of the week. And training is mostly the rest of the week.
The real question isn't distance, it's presence.
It isn't compulsory, plenty of people do it alone.
What a coach brings to a first goal is a framework: knowing what to do, in what order, and above all when to do nothing. The most common beginner mistakes aren't mistakes of effort, they're mistakes of dosage and impatience.
If you have any doubt about your health or an old injury, the first person to see is still a doctor. That, is not my job.
It depends on your sporting background and how many times a week you run. I can't give a figure that would hold for everyone.
What I can do is look with you at where you are and tell you whether the goal is reachable in the time left. That's usually the first thing we look at together.
Yes. Plenty of my runners are in exactly that position.
Three well-built sessions beat five thrown together at random. Volume isn't the point; what matters is what each session is going after.
The first conversation is free, and commits you to nothing.
