Whether you’re learning to swim, preparing for your first triathlon, training for a marathon or working towards a longer endurance challenge, coaching can give you the structure, knowledge and support to move forward.
TRI-Xtra Sport & Endurance Coaching brings together personalised coaching, practical experience and a whole-person approach across swimming, running, cycling and triathlon.
The focus isn’t simply on doing more. It’s about training in a way that fits your life, builds confidence and supports steady, sustainable progress.
Develop their stroke and swimming skills
Improve swimming technique and efficiency
Learn to swim or build confidence in the water
Work on a particular aspect of their swimming through one-to-one coaching
Build confidence ahead of an
event
Prepare for open water
swimming
Coaching informed by Karen’s own experience of leadership, complexity and change within NHS and public sector environments.
Coaching for women navigating leadership, confidence, career progression, visibility and work-life pressures.
Supporting graduates and early career professionals as they develop confidence, workplace skills and professional identity.
Support staff wellbeing
Reduce the risk of burnout
Develop future leaders
Improve confidence and communication
Support people through change
Increase engagement and self-awareness
Strengthen resilience across teams
Help people make decisions with more clarity
Encourage healthier, more sustainable ways of working
Support for runners working towards a distance, event or personal performance goal. Coaching can include training structure, consistency, pacing, training load, confidence and preparation for events from shorter distances through to marathons.
Personalised coaching across swim, bike and run, designed around your current fitness, experience, schedule and goals. This could be support for your first triathlon, developing your skills as an experienced triathlete or preparing for a longer-distance event.
For athletes preparing for longer or more challenging endurance events. Training can be structured around your goals while considering the realities of work, family, recovery and everything else that makes up your life.
I work with adults and young athletes at different stages of their sporting journey, including:
Your coaching is shaped around your experience, goals, confidence and available time.
Depending on what you’re working towards, support might include:
Support with training, pacing, transitions, confidence and event-day preparation.
Personalised plans built around your goals, current ability, available time and recovery.
Focused sessions to develop technique, confidence, skills or performance.
A chance to reflect on what is working, what needs adjusting and how your training can better support your goals.
Support with nerves, motivation, setbacks, confidence and the emotional side of training and competition.
Generic training plans often assume life is predictable.
Most people’s lives aren’t.
Your work, family, sleep, stress, recovery and confidence can all affect how you train. Good coaching needs to take those things into account.
Your coaching may consider:
The aim is to help you develop the skills, confidence and consistency to make progress without training becoming another source of pressure.
Whether you’re learning to swim, returning to running, taking on your first triathlon, preparing for a marathon or working towards a longer endurance challenge, coaching can help you understand what you need to do — and how to make it work within your life.
Personalised. Practical. Sustainable.
For younger athletes, the focus is on developing skills, confidence and enjoyment while recognising the importance of school, family and life outside sport.
The aim is to encourage long-term development rather than pressure or early specialisation.