The Training Today Team
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Ian Blackburn - Founder
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)
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Thomas Blackburn - Business Development Director
Tom, our Business Development Manager, leverages a unique perspective gained from a Business Degree at Pearson London Business School with experience trading gold in London and an entrepreneurial focus on digital marketing. Tom stands out for his ability to construct solid business partnerships, deliver innovative digital marketing techniques, and find exciting ways to expand our business as Training Today continues to grow as the number 1 training app for Apple Watch.
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Ade Bungay - Head coach
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 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.
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Fran Bungay - Head coach
Fran is an experienced sports coach specialising in triathlon. She is a level 3 BTF triathlon coach and is a coach tutor as part of the BTF coach develop programme. Goalspecific was established in 2010 and Fran works with a range of athletes from novice triathlete to age group gold medallists and elite athletes.
Fran is also an accomplished athlete in her own right having won 8 medals competing for the Great Britain age group team including 2 European titles. In 2015 Fran won 3 consecutive Ironman 70.3 titles including the European Championship in Weisbaden (40-44) and was world ranked number 1 in her age group.
Fran is also the head coach of Tri Purbeck based in Dorset. Fran’s coaching expertise and insight comes partly from her own experience, starting as a breast stroking novice in 2007 and developing into one of the country’s top age group athletes whilst working with other experienced coaches along the way. She is BTF coach mentor and is a certified Ironman U coach.
She has an excellent reputation as a swim coach adopting the Swimsmooth philosophy through both one to one coaching and her popular swim squads.
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Olli Kallakivi - Developer
Olli Kallakivi, has unique and wide experience in developing Apple Watch Health apps using SwiftUI.
Olli Kallakivi is co-founder and developer at Sydvesti Oy, a Helsinki-based company that focuses in developing watchOS and iOS apps that utilise health data to help users to lead healthy lifestyles.
Olli is also responsible for designing all of Sydvesti’s Apple Watch Health products.
Previously, Olli worked as an IT Manager at Relacom, a global supplier of network services. While there, his main focus was developing the existing IT environment and related services to fit more efficiently with business needs and modernising the tools used to allocate workforce and those used by the workforce on the field.
Prior to his role at Relacom, Kallakivi worked as a Solution Architect at ISS Palvelut, performing requirement analysis, user training and development and rollout of quality reporting systems.
Olli Kallakivi has earned his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Helsinki.
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Izzy Davis - Athlete Ambassador
Izzy has always been into sport and very goal oriented.
Growing up as a gymnast, Izzy reached National level tumbling before university where she found other hobbies to keep her focused such as climbing Kilimanjaro and cycling from London to Paris.
She began triathlon in 2018 at age 23 while looking for a new challenge, having done some running and swimming growing up, seemed like the right time to rekindle those skills.
Izzy qualified for the GB Age-Group Aquathlon team at her first Aquathlon race in 2019, she raced in the GB kit for the first time in Romania later that year.
She has since qualified to race for GB in the standard distance Triathlon and Duathlon European Championships, along with the World Championships for Triathlon, Duathlon and Aquathlon.
With the guidance of coach Fran Bungay, Izzy’s next goal is to race middle distance triathlon with Ironman 70.3 Weymouth on the horizon for her 2021 end of season goal.
Find Izzy on here Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/izzydavis/
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Will Oldham - Athlete Ambassador
Will played everything he could whilst growing up, with football being his primary sport throughout childhood. Exposure at university to the world of elite sport led him to a career in football and also saw a change in focus for his own training from team to individual endurance sport.
Inspired by a friend he set about creating and completing a multi-day ultramarathon in 2015 which then led to exploring the world of triathlon. His first race was Ironman Maastricht in 2016 and this was more than enough for Will to catch the triathlon bug.
Since then he’s raced Ironman Nice along with a number of Olympic distance triathlons and half marathons. Linking up with Fran and the Goalspecific Team has been part of the next step in Will’s development with a focus on racing 70.3 and building back towards 140.6 this season.
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Rebecca Goodwin - Athlete Ambassador
Rebecca is both an active talented amateur triathlete and award winning coach.
Splitting her time across training, coaching athletes on a 121 basis, being Head Coach of one of London’s largest triathlon clubs and working in the world of branding (outside of triathlon!) to work with companies and individuals to aspire and achieve their goals (as well as her own!).
Across the board its vital to have both experience and knowledge to help make proactive and reactive decisions in the right direction and Training Today app is a great example of where data can help in this process to make easy and informed decisions.
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Tracey Thomas - Athlete Ambassador
Tracey has competed in long Distance Triathlons, such as Ironman Wales, Outlaw and Long Course weekend. She was turning 50 and wanted to challenge herself even further, so jumping off a boat off Alctraz Island as part of ‘Escape of Alctraz’ gave her a chance to look at events that further challenged her as an endurance athlete. She also raised money for a local charity by running 186 miles of the Pembrokeshire Coast Path!
Tracey recently completed Ultra Trail Snowdonia running 87 miles with 27,000 ft of climbing and is now using the Training Today App to help plan and avoid overtraining for future events.
“I’m really excited to be working with the team and how Training Today will aid my training for endurance events”, she said.
She is currently targeting a UTMB 100k run in Nice in September.