Level 3 congratulations

Many congratulations to Simon Ward who has just become a level 3 coach with British Cycling – quite an achievement.

With the continued support of the club I have now been awarded my British Cycling Level 3 Road and Time Trial certificate.
It has taken  nine months to complete in two stages, the first being Zoom classroom based covering topics such as riders physiology, psychology and tactics, benchmarking and understanding data.
Once the theory side was done I had to recruit two riders to build an annual plan and coach them towards their season target. I twisted the arm of Jon (mad) Durnin and Debbie (little choice) Ward and since January have developed schedules to fit in with their aims, ability, strengths and life and cycling balance. Both have worked super hard for me and early season performances by both are fantastic.
I can be found at a lot of the club events so please ask me if any coaching advice is needed or a more formal longer term plan would help.
A big thanks to the club for the coaching support and to Debbie and Jon for five months of nagging.