Gavin’s experience of cycle racing goes back over 20years and encompasses virtually every discipline in cyclesport – he is a BC accredited coach and has coached members of his race team www.extreme-endurance.com to become the most successful UK MTB endurance team ever, with well over 10 podiums in 12 and 24hr solo and team racing in the last 3 years.  

Gavin works for UK Sport as an IT Project Manger in the Sports Science – Sports Medicine field, so has a vast array of contacts and resources to draw from. This is an integral part of being a coach as it enables him to continually add to his knowledge and challenge his ways of thinking, which in turn helps with creativity in the coaching process. Being a PMC Beta tester has also been an important part in his development as a coach.  

As an athlete he’s won over 25 races in MTB, Road Race, Time Trial and Cyclocross, but his most proud achievements are representing team GB at the MTB Worlds as a junior in 1991, and a Master athlete in 2004. Most recently he has also competed in the inaugural Trans Scotland and the prestigious Trans Rockies race, which was an experience that has given him new insights into the demands of ultra endurance events.

Gavin’s degree in Engineering Management and background in process engineering and software development give him a structured approach to training prescription, and one that is soundly based in evidence based principles, whilst still allowing for creativity and finding a way that works for each athlete.

Coaching/Training Philosophy – devising and following a plan which encompasses all the demands of your chosen goal, guiding the progression of your fitness through cyclical periods of training, while eliciting the maximum possible gains by obeying the rule of specificity, and preventing overtraining through stress management (workload and lifestyle).