Bryan Harding
Bryan is retired and was a lifelong sports enthusiast in rugby, football, athletics and road running until injury aged 37 brought competitive sport to a premature end. Cycling gradually became a passion, not only riding but servicing and building bikes. Watching his daughter Sarah (also a Catenary athlete) competing, Bryan realised how much he missed competitive sport. Completing his first triathlon in 2023, Bryan will be representing GB at middle distance Aquabike in 2025 and is working with Catenary to fulfil his multi-sports ambitions.
Molly Peel
Molly is a geography student at Loughborough University and has been competing in Athletics since 2018. When she was younger she competed in road and cyclocross but in 2018 made the full switch to being a runner. She has been loving the journey since, even with its ups and downs. She is excited to make the most of her final year with Loughborough Athletics.
Jessica Keogh
Jessica is an Industrial Design student at Loughborough Uni. She has been a competitive swimmer since the age of 8 and has competed nationally both in the pool and open water. She joined the triathlon team when she started uni in 2023 and has competed in a few BUCS events so far. She is eager to improve and keep racing.
Julie Taplin
Julie is a Registered Dietitian with a passion for exploring new challenges. She has previously participated in various endurance sports including marathons and triathlons, though mostly without a competitive focus. She cycles frequently with her local club as well as on Zwift. Recently she has taken up cyclocross and is eager to improve her strength in this new discipline. Julie is excited to work with Tim on a structured plan to build strength and balance her endurance background with new, focused training goals.
Freya Taylor
Freya is a PhD Student at the University of Cambridge, and has been cycling around 3 years now. She has fallen in love with the sport, and would love to continue improving and racing in the years to come!
Elizabeth Nock
Elizabeth is a University of Bristol student in Cambridge for the year on placement. She has been cycling for as long as she can remember, starting with mountain biking, and is excited about getting stronger with Catenary and working towards competing!
Abby Miller
Abby is currently a medical student at the University of Nottingham and has been racing off road in CX and MTB since 2016. She is looking forward to racing the MTB National series this year and hoping that working with Catenary Coaching will help her to deliver some great results!
Ella Nichols
Ella is a 4th year Engineering student and sailor at Newcastle University. Ella started triathlon in 2023 after having to stop competitive rowing due to injury. She has absolutely loved what she has done so far, competing in a few local triathlons and BUCS events. Ella is very excited to be joining the Catenary Coaching team and improving as a triathlete!
Laura Allen
A long-term runner doing anything from Parkrun to ultra-distance fell races, Laura decided to try her hand at duathlon last year. She qualified for the age group GB team and went to her first international race in June 2024, the European Duathlon Champs in Portugal. She is keen to improve, especially on her cycling, and hopes with Tim's help to become a better duathlete.
Chloe Bennett
Chloe is a Sports Engineering student at Loughborough University and has been competing in triathlons since 2017. After taking a break from the sport in 2023, she is eager to return to competitive racing, with her sights set on both local races and future international competitions. Chloe is thrilled to join the Catenary Coaching team and is looking forward to enhancing her race fitness.
Toby Mannall
Toby started cycling in 2023 after being introduced to the sport by a charity ride held by his sixth form college and really grew to love it through the year, making the move into racing at the beginning of 2024. He now races as a member of the St Ives Youth Development Squad with several crits, 10 mile TTs and a couple of road races under his belt. Now he has finished his A Levels, he is excited to work with Tim towards a successful (hopefully!) racing season in 2025.
Collette Waterfield
Collette is a full-time psychiatric nurse who loves a challenge and doesn’t let her age stop her from achieving her goals. She has always loved cycling and discovered triathlons over ten years ago, taking part in local events. She has also completed the London Marathon twice. She is taking part in the Hever Castle Half Ironman soon, and her aim is to complete a full Ironman amongst other endurance challenges.
Pascale Wehr
Pascale, an Aussie with a competitive swimming background and a love for running, started her triathlon journey just over a year ago, spurred on by sheer determination and a budding friendship with a road bike which saw her take on the Half Ironman in Taupo, New Zealand. Now as a postdoc at Oxford, she is eager to improve over the 70.3 distance and explore shorter distance events, playfully warning her British teammates of her Vegemite-fuelled competitive spirit. With the same zeal she now uses to chase down a good cappuccino in England, Pascale looks forward to blending camaraderie, athletic improvements, adventures and lots of laughter into this exciting new chapter with the Catenary family.
Mica Covell
Mica started running in 2023, after a move to a desk-based job and wanting to get a bit more active. She joined the local running club starting with 5k park runs and has just run her first half marathon. She loves getting out on her bike in the summer with her son, and is looking forward to trying out some new disciplines of road biking and multisport events this year!
Zoe Palmer
Zoe has done cross country running since she was 12, competing in a variety of events from regional to national level, while also doing athletics, hockey and rugby. After her A-Levels she started triathlon and raced her first half marathon. She joined Loughborough Uni last October and raced her first BUCS event. She is really looking forward to seeing how much she can improve with the help of Catenary Coaching.
Elisabeth Oldridge
Elisabeth has loved sport all her life and took up running during lockdown, going on to finish second in her age group in Berlin Marathon. After joining Loughborough University triathlon team, Elisabeth has developed a passion for swimming, and now, with the help of Catenary Coaching, will see how much further she can push herself through competing in triathlons.
Lizzie Templeton
Lizzie has been running on and off for a number of years and recently got into road cycling after starting to commute to work. She has been enjoying chilled weekend rides but is ready to get stronger on the bike and improve her performance. Her first time having a coach, she is looking forward to the structured training and challenging herself.
Emily Grapes
Emily swam and ran competitively up until she was 16, and after moving to Cambridge in 2020 and cycle commuting to work, she decided to get back into racing and combine all three disciplines. She competed in her first triathlon in 2021, and has since caught the triathlon bug! She has recently qualified for the World Triathlon Standard Distance Championships next year in Malaga with her main focus on working towards that, alongside aspirations to one day attempt a flying mount! She is excited to be part of the Catenary Coaching team and to continue to focus on improving her cycling.
Cressida Soygazi
Cressida has mainly been a runner - she started running socially in 2018, and has now completed 15 marathons and 50+ half marathons. This year she completed her first sprint triathlon and loved it. Cress’s focus is to collect The London Classics, in which she has completed the London Marathon and Swim Serpentine 2 mile swim - that leaves Ride London 100 to complete, which is where her focus is now.
Izzie Coakley
Izzie is a medicinal chemistry student from Loughborough University. She has competed in modern pentathlon from a young age with various successes nationally and internationally. At university, she joined the triathlon squad to develop her swimming for pentathlon, and during her third year, she decided to move into triathlon. Izzie has competed in the Super Series and BUCS and is loving the journey!
Chloë Deyermond
Chloë is a second-year junior doctor in Northern Ireland - she returned after spending five years studying at Newcastle University. She rowed competitively at uni but switched to triathlon in 2021 following injury and hasn’t looked back since. She has competed in several 70.3s, and been fortunate enough to get on a few podiums too, most recently representing Ireland as an AG athlete at the European Middle Distance Championships in Belgium. Chloë is excited to join the Catenary Coaching Team and see what she can do in the upcoming season!
Becky Wright
Growing up cycle commuting in Cambridge and after completing multiple long-distance running events, Becky learned to swim in 2017 and did her first triathlon with a sea swim in 2018. Catching the bug, she now competes at local short and middle-distance events. Becky has completed three long-distance triathlons overseas in Finland (Ironman), Ibiza (GB Age Group World Championships) and the Netherlands (GB Age Group European Championships). With help from Catenary, she hopes to find the optimal balance in training to continue climbing onto the podium whilst keeping on top of work and family commitments.
Julia Dolman
Julia was originally an England age group squash player, who turned to aquabike after a knee injury, representing GB in 2019. In 2021 the knee injury returned, requiring her to have both a knee and hip replacement in 2022. After building back up into the 2023 race season, she is representing GB again at middle distance aquabike in August. She has also qualified for the world standard aquabike in 2024, with the aim of achieving a podium place.
Sam Bell
Sam has been running and cycling on and off for several years. She joined the university triathlon club when she started her medical degree at Newcastle four years ago. Sam just completed her second triathlon, finishing 2nd in her AG. She is about to start work as a doctor and would love to see how much she can improve with the support and guidance of Catenary Coaching.
Ceri Davies
Ceri has been doing triathlon since she was nine. She is now at Loughborough University studying Human Biology and has represented the University at BUCS duathlon, sprint and standard triathlons. She recently branched out into the middle-distance world of racing, completing the Cotswold Classic 70.3. She is very excited to join the Catenary Coaching gang and continue her triathlon journey.
Lupe Morera
Lupe has been running for many years and started triathlon in 2017. She learned how to ride a road bike and competed in her first sprint triathlon, finishing 3rd in her AG. She did a few more sprint triathlons and a standard distance before becoming pregnant - she now has two daughters, aged 1 and 3. She has continued with her training and feels she is now ready to get back into racing. She plans to focus on standard distance triathlon this year and see where she goes from there.
Ophelia Vesely
Ophelia was originally a GB alpine ski racer and then a county cross-country runner, but moved into triathlon a couple of years ago. Better suited to endurance events, she is currently focused on testing new distances and types of racing, with a keen interest to go into Ironman and beyond. She loves adventuring in remote places and wants to swim, bike and run her way around the wildest parts of the UK, both during and after completing her degree in Geography at Durham University.
Lizzie Fox
Lizzie made the switch from rowing to triathlon in 2021 and hasn't looked back since. Her first full season in 2022 got off to a flying start with 6th place at the England sprint championships. Since then she has also started cycle racing for FTP - Fulfil The Potential race team. This year she's aiming for the age-group sprint triathlon world championships in Hamburg alongside crit racing and time trials. Besides training, Lizzie loves baking sourdough bread and works for Barclays as a data analyst.
Andrew Lowin
Andrew is retired – he joined Catenary in March 2023 having taken up cycling over the pandemic to maintain his fitness. After playing sport at a high level throughout his life, it‘s always been important for him to maintain his fitness and wellbeing. He discovered his self-devised cycling training was not making the necessary difference, he asked Catenary to devise one which would focus on endurance cycling and allow him to enjoy sportives.
Millie Rhead
Millie started running 6 years ago with a social run club in London. She gradually built up the distance, completing 12 half marathons and an Olympic triathlon, before doing London Marathon and Weymouth 70.3 in 2021. She has completed two more marathons in 2022 and entered her first full Ironman in October of this year. She works full time as a doctor in Cambridgeshire. Millie classes herself as a runner who’s dabbled in cycling and swimming but is looking forwards to getting stronger (and faster!) in those disciplines!
Mara Cope
Mother of two and married to Paul, Mara has been riding since she was young, using her bicycle to get round her grandparents' farm quicker than she could walk. She got into mountain biking first and in the last few years has been enjoying multi-day bike-packing trips on her gravel bike. She is now ready to take on more challenging routes with more structured training.
Alba Vidal Cacharrón
Alba has been swimming and cycling for many years, but without any structure. More recently she took up running, and is interested in putting all the disciplines together and completing an iron man. She has also recently started cycling off road and is keen to race. She hasn’t previously had a coach but looks forward to seeing what she can achieve and how far she can be pushed. She works full time in a challenging environment and has the super power of having three young children!
Sarah Harding
Sarah has competed in multisport events since 2019, entering her first 12 weeks after her daughter was born. Since then, she's worked hard to learn more about the sport, particularly around data and how it can be used to improve performance. Her best result to date is Silver in the 2020 European Standard Distance Duathlon Championships in only her 3rd race. Sarah previously worked very successfully with Tim and Catenary and is super excited to be back! Her target for this year is the World Championships in Ibiza in April as well as trying to perfect a flying mount!
Emily Young
Emily started triathlon in 2019 with her partner David and it quickly took over their lives! Before that, she was a hockey player and had done a couple of marathons for the challenge. She has mainly been focussing on standard distance triathlon, racing at age-group level for the past couple of years. She also enjoys racing off road at cross-country running and gravel cycling events – preferably with lots of mud involved! This year her goal is the World Standard Distance Triathlon Championships and she is giving long distance running another go at London Marathon.
David Shepherd
After swimming competitively through his teenage years, David transitioned to running marathons at university. When he moved to central London and began to commute by bike in 2019, it seemed obvious to add all three sports together and give triathlon a go! Since then, he has been racing at age-group level with the highlight of winning a silver medal at the World Aquathlon Champs 2021. This year he is focusing on the standard distance triathlon and aquathlon Age Group events.
Maddie Angwen
Maddie first got into cycling after knee injuries frustrated her netball and tennis, which then stopped completely due to Covid. Her love for cycling really increased when she started cycling with Cambridge University Cycling Club. She started racing and competed in road and MTB Varsity competitions against Oxford, winning the MTB race. She has also competed in BUCs 10 and 25-mile TTs and is entering more TTs over the summer as well as starting crit and road racing.
Sarah Hunter
Sarah has been running for a number of years but became interested in cycling during lockdown and competed in her first duathlon in 2021. Qualifying for the 2023 Age Group Sprint Duathlon World Championships has given her the motivation to take her cycling up a gear and become part of the Catenary Team.
Abbie Currington
An ex-competitive swimmer, Abbie started triathlon in order to get back into swimming, and hasn't looked back since. She competed as part of the Cambridge University Triathlon Club, finishing 1st Cambridge female in Varsity triathlon in 2018 and 2019, becoming captain of the women's team, while also competing for the university running and swimming clubs. Abbie is keen to develop her ability on the bike and return to racing post-covid.
Emilia Miller
Emilia is new to triathlon but has been an athlete since she was young, starting out swimming and then dancing full-time. Hit by overuse injuries and fed up with always being hungry, she turned to academia and took up running and rock-climbing while doing her A levels. Now at uni in Oxford while running her dance business, her next challenge was triathlon. She finds satisfaction in seeing improvement on the bike and run, as well as returning to her swimming roots.
Jess Barratt-Drylie
With a background in hockey, Jess took up running consistently during the first lockdown and after enjoying that she tried out open water swimming with her mum for a bit of fun. With two disciplines under her belt she decided to make it three and start cycling, which she loves! She did her first triathlon this year and caught the triathlon bug, hoping to increase her racing distance and keep improving from there!
Jennifer Carter
Jennifer is passionate about triathlon and picked up the bike component of the sport in her final year of undergraduate studies in 2019. She now competes for the University of Oxford Triathlon Club whilst studying for a PhD in Chemistry. She is keen to improve her technique and performance on a bike to strengthen her bike leg in triathlon events, and work towards training effectively for her first Half Ironman this summer.
Lottie Lindsley
After retiring from artistic gymnastics in 2013 and taking up karate she was looking for a new goal to work towards. She started training for a triathlon and did her first sprint distance event in 2020, and has signed up for Barcelona 70.3 in October 2021. She is looking forward to working with Catenary Coaching to give more structure to her training and to reach Barcelona as race ready as she can!
Georgia Roberts
Georgia has been competing in triathlons on and off since 2015, and is now looking to up her training and take the sport more seriously. Her favourite discipline is cycling and she is really looking forward to having a structured plan to improve her performance. She also enjoys trail and fell running, and would like to enter some more races this year.
Edward Bolland
Edward started out in triathlon in 2013 and has qualified for the European Championships in triathlon and duathlon during that time. He would like to focus more on cycling in the coming year with the aim of improving his 10 mile TT times and trying his hand at cyclocross.
AMY HARVEY
Amy has been cycling and racing since she was 13. In her second season as an under-14 she started to become much more competitive and get podium finishes. She even raced in a few circuit nationals, finishing in the top 15 at Brands Hatch. Her target is to improve on time trials and to develop a much more powerful and explosive sprint.
Lilly Gibbs
Lilly is a triathlete from Kent who has been competing since 2013, and is now in the British Elite Super Series. Originally a swimmer since the age of 8, she took up running at 12 and then a love of cycling led her to give triathlon a go. She has had ups and downs with injury and disappointments but also successes which she hopes to build on.
Megan Powell
Megan is a GB AG duathlete who has made the podium at all of the four World & European championships she has competed in so far. She has a background in running but is aiming to build her bike performance to a similar standard. She has competed at an elite level in the UK and is working towards achieving international elite status in duathlon alongside finishing the final years of her medicine degree.
Maria Gent
Maria has been riding for 5 years and is a member of Kettering Cycling Club. Taking part in Club and District TTs, with the occasional road, MTB and CX race, she hopes to improve her TT times going forward in 2020.
Sophie Lee
Sophie is a member of Newmarket Cycling & Triathlon club, taking part in club TTs and entered her first road race. She had a successful 2018, coming second in her club TT series and winning ‘most improved rider’ in the club awards. After some time off the bike, she is back to training for 2021.