Coach Profiles - Mid Sussex Tri Club

The club provides a number of coached sessions across each triathlon discipline. Our coaching team is encouraged to develop their skills and knowledge across individual sports as well as Triathlon.

Steve McMenamin
Head Coach | BTF Level 2

Callum Murray
BTF Level 1

Jean Fish
BFT Level 1

Jo Fleming
BTF Level 2

I'm a runner who liked to cycle and took up swimming when I joined the club around 2013 after an adult life just doing my own training. The club is fantastic at supporting beginners through to serious amateurs and I have massively improved all 3 disciplines in my time here. I take great pleasure seeing members get motived to train and this led me to coaching 4 years ago. I have a relaxed and participative coaching style, encouraging people to understand and explore their technique. I coach the weekly runs, swims and help lead the weekly spin, which I see as complementary to the training sessions that we can easily do on our own.

Kevin James
I joined Mid Sussex Tri Club after moving to Haywards Heath nearly 20 years ago. In the year before I joined the club, I completed my first marathon in New York where the only goal was to finish without walking (eventual time of 4 hours 45). But I knew I wanted to improve. As a result of this, I started training with the tri club and in subsequent marathons got my times down to a sub-3 hour time and gained qualification for the Boston marathon.

I attribute a lot of this success to consistently attending the club’s Thursday night interval-based sessions and turning up to race club mates at local events such as the Brighton 10k, Barnes Green Half etc. But I have also spent a lot of time on developing running technique and I’m passionate about the importance of treating running as a ‘skill’. Hopefully, whatever you are wanting to achieve you’ll get some improvement out of one of my sessions.

Neil Giles
BTF Level 2

Want to join our Coaching Team?

We are always looking for members to become coaches. We offer the opportunity for our coaches to be trained, initially to level 1 with the BTF before progressing through level 2 and, possibly, to level 3. We are keen also to train our coaches to the various levels and to put them through specific skills short courses offered by the Amateur Swimming Association, British Cycling, and England Athletics and other relevant bodies. A number of coaches are also trained in the likes of spinning and fitness training.

In return for funding the coaching courses, we ask that coaches make themselves available for inclusion in the coaching register. This means a commitment of something like at least two session per month for a period of at least a year. That said, coaching duties are allocated after discussions with the head coach and we are flexible with how coaching hours are accumulated.