The Training Today Podcast

Ade Bungay: Ade has always been a competitive sportsman and in his youth he was a top national slalom skier. He is a British triathlon Federation level 3 triathlon coach and is part of the BTF coach development team as a coach educator and coach mentor. Through Goalspecific Ade coaches athletes training for Ironman and Ironman 70.3 and at our popular swim squads. Alongside his wife Fran, he organises and delivers coaching at Goalspecific’s range of triathlon camps. Ade is also the race director for Goalspecific/Tripurbeck’s popular junior and adult duathlon and triathlon events.

Ade’s professional background is in education and he has developed and delivered leadership development courses as well as professional coaching programmes in education, acting as a coach/mentor for many years. He has significant expertise in working with individuals to set and achieve challenging personal goals.

Ian Blackburn: Ian has over 20 years of experience running an app business focussed on environmental issues for local government, successfully developing the UK's leading environmental reporting app which processes over 1million public reports a year, and is an established technical author having published multiple technical books. Ian runs a successful blog on using Apple Watch for triathlons (The Apple Watch Triathlete) and has published an ebook called “How to train like and IronMan with Apple Watch”. He is a keen amateur triathlete having completed two IronMan Triathlons (Maastricht 2017, Wales 2018)