Gareth Sandford
Helping coaches prepare athletes for the big moments



Why this work matters
Middle-distance is one of the most demanding events to condition because no two athletes respond the same.You’ve got speed types who run out of gas in the home straight…
Aerobic types who can’t handle the kick when it counts…
And highly gifted juniors who stagnate at the next level.Most coaches are handed a model.
But at the elite end where the margins are razor-thin, models break.What gets missed isn’t effort.
It’s alignment.When the training doesn’t reflect the athlete’s physiology,
the gap gets exposed under pressure, at national champs, Olympic qualifiers, or world finals.But group models don’t always capture individual needs.
And over time, that’s where opportunity, talent conversion, and performance breakthroughs can slip through the cracks.
Why Work With Gareth?
It started in 2017: a 6½-month, 68,000 km journey across 30+ elite training sites.
Shoulder-to-shoulder with middle-distance coaches from Olympic federations, pro groups, and NCAA programs all facing the same challenge:
How to condition different athlete profiles and convert more to world-class.With athletes from five continents, that frontline collaboration compressed decades of learning into 6 months.
I saw what separated the programs that sustained success and how often it came down to this:
Mapping training to each athlete’s physiology. Evolving it in line with their adaptive signature and not just following a model on paper.That’s what I help coaches do now.
Refine what already works. Unlock more of the roster. Deliver when it counts.
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