Who we are…
At Just Racing we have a range of coaches, ensuring individuals maximise their time at all of our courses. Each coach brings his or her own unique mix of experience in coaching, training and racing. Below is our core coaching team:
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Alan Rose
Alan’s sporting background was originally in swimming, with representative honours at County, Regional and Military level. Cross Country running, Modern Biathlon and Modern Triathlon (running, swimming and shooting) were added to his swimming base with a top 10 finish at the National Champs in the late 1980’s. After competing in his first Triathlon in 1988, 2007 is Alan’s 19th season in triathlon, currently at a ‘recreational level’.
Combined with his racing experience, Alan brings an honours degree in Sports Science, a diploma in Sport Psychology and ASA qualifications in swimming, to help bring the art of science into individual training programmes.
Alan has worked with junior athletes for 8 years as a Secondary School Physical Education Teacher and for the last 5 years has helped many individuals reach their varying goals. These have included novices, Age Groupers and Ironman Competitors.
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Chris Kitchen
Chris has been around on the triathlon scene since 1985. As an athlete, Chris’ passion is with long distance and he has been a member of the GB Long Distance team on and off throughout the 1990’s.
Having been a level 3 coach since 1993, Chris is one of the most established BTA coaches in the UK. Still coaching swimming at his tri club in Bucks, Chris can be found heading up the Just Racing swim clinics and on most of our UK residential / non-residential courses.
On top of his racing and coaching experience, Chris is also a BTA Executive Board member, Chair of the Performance committee and is Chair of the ITU Long Distance Triathlon Committee.
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Mark McKay
Mark has been racing cycling, running and more recently Duathlon at Elite level for the past 20 years. Mark was British Elite Duathlon Champion in 2004 and picked up a bronze medal at the Elite Duathlon World Champs in 2005. From a background of cycling, Mark has won over 100 races between 1984 and 1999, raced as a professional cyclist, representing GB over a 9 year period and racing against the likes of Jan Ullrich at the World Road Race Champs. As a relative late comer to running, Mark still managed to become Northants Cross Country and 10k Champion twice.
It is Mark’s unique experience that have led British Triathlon to invite him on their Elite Triathlon Squad Training Camps to act as cycling expert and coach / adviser to the Beijing Olympic athletes. Although Mark’s biggest challenge could be coaching Alan to compete in Ironman South Africa in March 2007!
Mark will be based in the South of France and will be heading up our overseas training camps for both athletes and our corporate clients.
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Terry Wootton
Terry has 20+ years of experience as a triathlete competing at all distances from Sprint to Ironman events in Lanzarote & Florida.
Qualified Swimming teacher & Triathlon referee, Terry has been part of the Coaching and event Team of ‘Just Racing’ since inception in 2000.
Terry has a genuine passion for the sport and gains immense satisfaction from not only competing but equally so in helping others to achieve their goals. Not only will you meet Terry at the swim clinics and UK residential / non-residential courses, you are bound to see him when doing one of our triathlon events.
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Andy Tarry
Andy comes from a running background with a string of titles to his name, including Notts / Midlands Cross Country / 10k Champion and a previous England Cross Country runner. Despite an impressive 10k pb of 30.11mins, Andy’s late triathlon career isn’t too shabby either. With European racing experience (and wins), previous GB Elite status and British Sprint Champion, Andy’s racing experience at the top level is invaluable.
When not winning our own races, Andy can be found at some of our non-residential training courses, passing on his experience to triathletes of all abilities.
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