Running Coaching from Keswick
Science-led coaching — online, worldwide, since 2012.
Personalised coaching for runners — road, trail, fell, mountain and sky — and for road and gravel cyclists, built around your goals, your training history and your life. Science behind every session, whatever the surface. Based in the Lake District, coaching athletes UK-wide and worldwide.
Coaching Built Around You
We work with athletes of all levels — from a first 10K or sportive to the front of the field. Running on road, trail, fell, mountain and sky; riding on road and gravel.
Running Coaching
Personalised one-to-one coaching with structured training, ongoing support and a clear path to becoming a better runner — any distance, any terrain. From £100/month.
Learn More ›Cycling Coaching
One-to-one road and gravel coaching from Brennan, a former professional road cyclist and British Cycling coach — built around your racing, your data and your week. From £100/month.
Learn More ›Training Plans
Bespoke plans for any race or goal — 5K to 100 miles on foot, or road and gravel events on the bike — delivered via TrainingPeaks. Plans from £75, written around your race and goals.
Learn More ›Guided Recces
Guided course reconnaissance runs and mountain skills sessions in the Lake District — led by fell running guide and mountain leader Dava Waterhouse.
Learn More ›Not sure whether you need coaching or a training plan? Read our guide ›
Racing at national or championship level? See our application-only Performance Squad ›
Our Approach
Individual, Not Templated
Aerobic development, threshold, speed, power and race-specific work, programmed for where you are now, with zones set from your own field testing — not a template pulled off a shelf. Every session has a reason, and you'll know what it is.
Data, Read by a Coach
Every session lands in TrainingPeaks and gets looked at: pace, power, heart rate, how it felt. Your training is adjusted from what your body actually did, not what a plan said a month ago.
Long-Term, Not Race-to-Race
Training that builds year on year, not just block to block. Your next race is a waypoint — the goal is the athlete you are in twelve months and beyond, so nothing is crammed and nothing is wasted.
Strength & Durability
Strength and conditioning in every plan. It's what keeps you injury-free through a marathon build and strong on the descents in a sky race.
Coached by Brennan & Kat Townshend
Townshend Performance is led by Brennan Townshend — BSc Sport & Exercise Science (final year), former professional road cyclist and GB international trail runner — and co-founder Kat Townshend, a former track and cross-country runner now competing on the fells and in the mountains. Both are UK Athletics Level 2 qualified running coaches based in Keswick, Lake District, coaching athletes across the UK and worldwide.
With over 16 years of endurance sport experience and coaching since 2012, Brennan and Kat bring race-tested knowledge from road, track, trail and mountain into every training plan and coaching relationship.
Meet the Team
BSc Sport & Exercise Science (final year). Former professional road cyclist, now elite ultra trail runner and Precision Hydration sponsored athlete. Winner — Three Peaks Fell Race (x2), UTS 50km, Garmin Mourne Sky Race. GB representative, 2022 World Trail Running Championships.
Former track and cross-country runner, now a competitive fell and mountain runner and Inov-8 ambassador. UK Athletics Level 2 and UESCA Certified Ultramarathon Coach. Multiple age category winner across skyrunning, fell, trail and mountain disciplines.
Real Results
"Under Brennan's guidance I've improved from 40:xx to 34:19 for the 10K and from 1:54:40 to 1:15:37 for the half marathon — a far greater improvement than I'd have achieved alone."
"A year ago the idea of finishing UTS 100 was simply unachievable for me. Kat's taken me from strength to strength, kept me injury free, and pushed me to levels I could not have achieved on my own."
"I'm 53 and having a coach for the first time has been a revelation. In the last year I've run fell races at PB pace — as fast as I've been for 10–15 years."
"In 2019 I came 16th before we started working together. The training has been tailored to suit my work commitments — maximising available time and the terrain at hand."
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