From a first 5km PB to the longest distances at UTMB. I coach everyday and elite runners with the same purpose: helping you do the things you didn't know you could do, with training built around your real life.
Apply for CoachingEvery athlete I work with gets a highly individualised programme, built from their constraints, strengths, and goal race. I look at the person before the athlete: your history, your fitness, your terrain, your schedule, and your life outside running. Then the work adjusts as your body and circumstances change, because that's what real coaching is.
Season-focused planning. We start with your races, your life, and your constraints, then build a season that supports steady progress and consistent weeks.
Ultra-specific thinking. Fatigue management, durability, fuelling, pacing, and long days on tired legs, training decisions made with ultra reality in mind.
Ongoing adjustment. As stress, sleep, work, and recovery change, the plan changes too. Steady progress, not forcing a schedule that no longer fits.
Real race experience matters. These moments show the terrain, effort, and commitment behind Apex Rises Coaching.
"Claude is the quiet engine behind my success. He shapes each programme around your life, your goals, and your recovery. I've become more consistent and more confident than ever before."
"Even though we're in different towns, the coaching feels very hands on. The structure is clear, the feedback is consistent, and I always know why I'm doing what I'm doing."
"This is more than just workouts. The biggest difference has been better decisions, better pacing, and feeling prepared instead of guessing."
The distance between a 5km personal best and a UTMB finish line is smaller than people think. It's the same ingredients: belief, consistency, and training that fits the person doing it.
Athletes I coach have taken on the longest distances at UTMB Mont Blanc, UTMB Madeira, and UTMB Val d'Aran, the races that define this sport, prepared properly for the biggest days of their running lives.
I work with pro and elite athletes who podium frequently, including outright wins at the 100km distance. Athletes chasing the front of the race get coaching that respects how thin the margins are up there.
And just as important: everyday runners who came for a 5km PB, or a first trail race, or a distance that scared them, and did the thing they didn't know they could do. Those finish lines count the same.
You will invest hundreds of hours into your training. That deserves to be done properly.
I have been running for over 20 years and completed more than 300 races, and I am still as in love with this sport as the day I started. Coaching came from that love: there is nothing quite like watching someone cross a line, on a mountain or a road, that they once believed was beyond them. That moment is why I do this.
I am also a husband and father of three, so I understand that training has to work around real life. Work, family, stress, travel, fatigue, and unexpected changes all matter, and a good coaching process bends around them instead of breaking. I am a UESCA Certified Ultrarunning Coach, and training is grounded in proven methods and real world experience, but it always has to fit the athlete, because every runner arrives with their own goals, constraints, and challenges.
Everything runs through TrainingPeaks, with weekly feedback and check-ins built into the process, not left to chance. Questions don't wait for the weekend either, WhatsApp and email are open between sessions, with a 24-hour response time.
Limited athlete capacity · I will be honest if it is not the right fit
A first 5km. A first ultra. A podium. Whatever it is, you don't have to figure out the path alone.
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