Meet your coach

A serious coach for athletes with a life beyond sport.

I coach the work and the decisions around it: what to protect in a difficult week, when to change course, and how to race with the fitness you have built.

Tom Fokkens-Ancery, founder and head coach of Sense Endurance Coaching — **Tom Fokkens-Ancery**Founder & head coach
Sense Endurance Coaching · Netherlands

Trisutto certifiedLong-course coaching methodology

80/20 Endurance certifiedEvidence-led intensity distribution

Coach the CoachTraining under Brett Sutton

Why Sense exists

Elite training taught me discipline. Triathlon taught me to question the plan.

I came to triathlon after years in TaeKwon-Do. A black belt, national titles and European Championship silver had taught me about commitment, pressure and the work behind an elite performance.

Triathlon taught me something different. Training harder did not always mean racing better. I could see the numbers improving while injuries or poor decisions on race day still got in the way.

I started Sense Endurance Coaching because a training plan has to make sense beyond the spreadsheet. It has to work in the life you lead and prepare you for the decisions you will make when the race gets hard.

How I coach

Judgement before prescription.

Work with the week you have

There is no value in planning a perfect Tuesday if work, family and recovery mean you cannot repeat it. We decide what the week can carry.

Change the plan when you need to

If a session takes more out of you than it should, we adjust the next one instead of chasing missed numbers.

Practise racing before race day

We rehearse pacing, fuelling and restraint in training, so they are familiar decisions when you are tired.

See how those decisions work in a real season

Work with me

Bring me the goal. We will work out what it genuinely requires.

The first call is a straightforward conversation about your training, your constraints and whether I am the right coach for you.