I'm a professional triathlon coach with 20 years experience in the world of endurance sports. In my competitive years I completed 18 Ironmans and raced at the Ironman World Championship in Kona twice. I've trained as both a working age group athlete and as a full-time athlete. Over the last decade I've successfully coached athletes towards their goals, whether that's their first sprint tri or qualifying for the Ironman World Championship.
As a full-time, professional coach I have 10 years of experience coaching age group athletes. This is backed up by a British Triathlon Level 2 Coaching Diploma and Training Peaks Level 2 Certification. I have the knowledge and the experience to deliver quality coaching to my athletes.
My focus is on providing planning and support that enables my athletes to train consistently and successfully, progressively building towards their goals. Training is driven by the athlete's abilities, but understood and enhanced through careful analysis of the data. Every athlete's plans are specific to them.
Alongside my commercial work I'm also Head Coach for Bristol & District Triathlon Club where I help ensure the delivery of a wide range of training sessions. I spend up to 4 hours coaching pool-side every week and deliver a number of open water sessions each summer. I also produce dozens of detailed swim video analyses and reviews for members every year.
Testimonials
Russ has been my coach now for just under a year. Until signing up with Russ, I had no idea if I was even capable of being a triathlete. Athletics is not something I was interested in during my teens, twenties or even my thirties, but after watching from the sidelines for several years (married to a triathlete) I thought I would like to give it a go. Before this, I had completed the C25k, ran 2 Half marathons and a completed a Try-aTri (I’m certainly not the quickest) I emailed Russ with my background and asked him if he thought it was possible to not only do a Tri, but to go straight in for a 70.3 event.
Russ didn’t hesitate to take me on and my triathlon journey began.
Over the last few months Russ’ support, expertise, and guidance has seen me go from struggling to do 20 miles on a bike, struggling to swim more than 100 meters without being breathless, to regularly completing 2k swims, 10 mile runs, and 50 mile rides relatively easily. His knowledge and guidance has built my aerobic base and given me more confidence in my own abilities than I could have ever imagined. My journey has not been easy, and I’ve had a few set backs along the way, but Russ always takes each week as it comes and makes sure I’m happy, comfortable and confident before moving on, something that I think is invaluable from a confidence point of view when you are so new to the sport like I am.
In 10 weeks time, I’ll be standing on the start line for my first event, and I know I would not be there if it wasn’t for Coach Cox.
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