Endurance Bike and Run is run by Clare Pearson and John Hampshire, two professional endurance coaches working with cyclists and runners around the world.
We work with people taking on demanding endurance goals, including audax, bikepacking, ultra-distance cycling, trail and ultra-running, and those who want to combine cycling and running.
Good coaching is about more than writing training sessions. We look at the person as a whole: their goals, training history, recovery, work and family commitments, confidence, setbacks and changing circumstances. The aim is to make training effective and sustainable, to keep moving towards what matters.
Between us, we have more than 25 years of professional coaching experience, working with people taking on their first challenge through to world-record holders and professional athletes competing at the highest level.
Clare coaches runners and cyclists, with particular experience in trail and ultra-running, long-distance cycling and athletes who combine the two disciplines.
She has a strong interest in helping people build the confidence and consistency needed for demanding endurance goals, such as women taking on ambitious challenges.
Clare is a TrainingPeaks Level 2 coach and is qualified through both UK Athletics and British Cycling.
John has coached endurance athletes professionally since 2009, working across long-distance cycling, running and multi-day endurance events.
His coaching is built around understanding how training, recovery and the rest of life interact, helping people combine disciplines and prepare for complex endurance challenges.
He has worked with world-record holders, professional cyclists and leading ultra-endurance competitors.
I have always enjoyed endurance sport, although I was never the obvious athlete at school. I was usually near the back in track races and picked late for team sports, but I loved being outside and discovered that I could keep going for a long time; walking, running or riding a bike.
Running became a bigger part of my life when I moved to Skipton in the Yorkshire Dales. I started racing on road and trail, and after being disappointed with my first marathon I became much more interested in how training actually worked. More structure, better recovery and advice from more experienced runners made a real difference.
In 2012 I started working with a coach myself. Having someone objective looking at my training changed the way I thought about coaching. It also helped me realise that the goals that mattered most to me weren’t necessarily the conventional ones. I was happiest running on trails and in the mountains, and over the following years I raced increasingly longer and more demanding events in the UK and Europe.
By then I was already helping friends with their training, and in 2018 I began coaching professionally. I initially focused on running, particularly trail and ultra-distance events, before qualifying as a cycling coach as well.
That combination has become an important part of my coaching. Many of the people I work with run and ride, whether because they enjoy both sports, are managing injury or fatigue, or simply want a more varied way of preparing for an endurance goal.
What I enjoy most is helping someone find an approach that works for them, around their sport, their life and the challenges that inevitably come with both.
Send Clare and email by clicking here or use the form to book a free, no obligations consultation to discuss your training and nutrition goals.
I started sport as a swimmer when I was young, which gave me an early habit of training regularly and working towards long-term goals. Later I took up running, initially to improve my fitness for other sports, but it quickly became an important part of my life. I trained, raced and travelled to events in the UK and abroad for many years.
An ankle injury in the late 1990s pushed me towards cycling. What began as a way of keeping fit became another sport in its own right. I raced, trained with power meters and became increasingly interested in how training worked and why apparently similar athletes could respond very differently to the same approach.
I began coaching professionally in 2009. My own experience across different disciplines and environments has shaped the way I work with athletes today, particularly those whose goals do not fit neatly into a single discipline or conventional category.
In 2011 and 2012 I worked with British Cycling as part of the Great Britain Paralympic Team as their lead handcycle coach for London 2012. Working alongside athletes, physiologists, psychologists and other coaches gave me valuable experience of high performance sport, but also reinforced how individual effective training needs to be.
Before coaching became my main work, I spent much of my career as an engineer. That background still influences how I think. I tend to look at the whole system, how training, recovery, work, family, confidence and changing circumstances interact, rather than treating a training plan in isolation.
Over the years I have worked with cyclists and runners preparing for everything from their first major endurance challenge to events such as Paris-Brest-Paris, ultra-distance bikepacking races, mountain ultras and world record attempts.
What interests me most is finding the small changes that help someone train more consistently, make better decisions and keep moving towards something that matters to them.
Send John and email by clicking here. or use the booking form to arrange a free, no obligations meeting to discuss your training and goals.
