About Us
I started Castle Coaching Fitness in 2016 with the aim of helping runners of all abilities to master their potential and achieve their goals. To do this I offer a number of different services including individualised training plans, one-to-one coaching and group training sessions.
At Castle Coaching Fitness I believe that it is important to work closely with the runners to understand their training history and developmental needs whilst overseeing their training and making changes where necessary to help them to master their potential and achieve their goals.
Chris Hollinshead
UKA Level 4 Endurance Coach and Competing masters Athlete
The Coach
I am a UKA level 4 endurance coach (marathon training) with level 3 strength and conditioning and MSc in Sports Coaching. I am passionate about coaching and have over 30 years of coaching experience which includes:
- Coaching Masters athletes to win medals at regional, national and international level
- Helping runners of all abilities achieve PBs from 800m to Marathon distance
- Club endurance coach
- University running club coach
- UKA Paralympic athletes talent identification programme
- Lead tutor on the national Run Leader workshop programme for England Athletics
- Lead tutor on coach education courses for England Athletics
- Marathon preparation workshops for runners and clubs
I am also the programme co-ordinator for the England Athletics Masters Programme
Chris Hollinshead
Coach
The Athlete
I have over 35 years as a competing athlete and as a result am able to really understand the importance of effective training from the perspective of the runner as well as the coach. I have been lucky enough to have had a successful running career at both senior and masters level, with some of my highlights including:
- British Masters titles over 10 mile and half marathon distance
- Team silver at the World Masters half marathon championships in both Lyon, France and Perth, Australia
- Individual silver in the 5000m at the European Masters Games in Turin
- Winning the Conwy, Stafford, Rhyl and Wrexham half marathons
Plan, Train, Achieve
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