Running & Ultra Coaching
Run Further. Build Resilience. Keep Doing What You Love.
Whether you're working towards your first marathon, stepping up to ultra distances or struggling with recurring running injuries, Chris can help you build towards your goals and develop the resilience to keep progressing.
As a specialist physiotherapist, certified ultra-running coach and experienced ultra-runner, Chris combines structured training with a clinical understanding of how the body responds to running. Alongside your running programme, he'll consider your strength, movement, injury history and ability to tolerate increasing training loads.
The goal is to help you train more consistently, build your capacity for running and reach your potential with greater confidence.
Why Work With Chris?
Chris is a Chartered Physiotherapist with over 25 years of experience, an accredited UESCA Running Coach and a former Great Britain Backyard Ultra runner.
His own running journey wasn't straightforward. At 19, his back would lock up after running less than a mile. Since then, he's gone on to run sub-3-hour marathons, complete fourteen 100-mile-plus races and win a 350km ultra.
He understands both the demands of endurance running and the frustration of being held back by injury. His approach combines practical coaching experience with a clinical understanding of how the body responds to training.
How Coaching Can Help you
Whether you're chasing a marathon PB, preparing for your first ultra or struggling to stay injury-free, coaching is tailored to help you make progress towards your goals.
Reach your running goals: Follow a structured training plan designed around your current fitness, experience and ambitions, helping you prepare for your target event with confidence.
Run more efficiently: Use running gait analysis to identify opportunities to improve your technique and make your running more effective.
Build strength and resilience: Develop the physical capacity to handle increasing mileage and the demands of longer distances.
Train more consistently: Manage training loads and recovery to reduce avoidable interruptions from recurring niggles and setbacks.
Get back to running with confidence: Follow a progressive plan that helps you rebuild your running after injury and move towards your previous level of performance.
Know how to move forwards: Get expert guidance on your training, strength work and progression, with adjustments based on how your body responds.
Coaching is available online, with in-person running gait analysis and physiotherapy available where appropriate.
Ready to Take Your Running Further?
Whether you're chasing an ambitious goal, tired of recurring injuries holding you back or want to discover what you're capable of, Chris can help you find a way forwards.
Get in touch at chris@physio7.com to discuss your running, your goals and what's standing in your way. Together, you can explore how expert coaching and physiotherapy insight could help you train more consistently, build resilience and achieve more from your running.