Welcome to
Training Camps | Performance Testing | Multidisciplinary Support – The right team for the right moment.
01 – Our philosophy
Kairos is a matter of timing.
Chronos is time that simply passes. Kairos is the decisive moment, and for us that moment is the camp itself. A week where performance science and multidisciplinary expertise sit in one place, so you leave with the knowledge and the skill to keep performing long after you go home.
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Science, not guesswork
Camps offer a wide range of testing and analysis services. See our services for more information.
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Elite experience, applied
Multidisciplinary expertise brought directly to you, tailored personally to each individual.
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All abilities, one standard
Whether you’re a professional or a novice, everyone receives the same expertise and the same attention, tailored to their needs.
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Destinations worth a visit
Places hand-picked to give our guests a unique experience. See our locations for more information.
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What you take home
You leave with actionable data and the knowledge to use it, alongside the experiences, and the friendships, that come from training properly in good company.
02 – Services
Five ways to work with us.
Service 01
Run holidays
A full week of training in Croatia: guided sessions, individual coaching, food, recovery, sea and sleep. Total focus on training, and an experience you will not forget.
Croatia · Full week
Service 02
Performance camps
Performance testing and data analysis with individual attention, wrapped inside active days of training in a location worth travelling for.
Lake District & Croatia
Service 03
Race specific camps
Built around one goal event. Course-specific recces and guiding, performance testing to sharpen the training that matters for the race, a fuelling strategy, and strength and conditioning advice to get you to the start line in your best condition.
One goal event
Service 04
The Team Kairos experience
Fully individualised, year-round integrated performance support: coaching, physiotherapy, strength and conditioning, nutrition, psychology and testing, joined up rather than handed off. We are your team.
Year-round · Fully individualised
Service 05
Bespoke and group solutions
Clubs, teams, corporate groups and private parties. Tell us the group, the goal and the time you have, and we will build the programme around it.
Clubs · Teams · Corporate · Private
Not sure which fits?
Tell us what you are training for and we will point you at the right week, or build you something else entirely.
03 – Camps
Camps, open for 2026/27.
Dates as they are released. Each camp is small, expert-led and built on the same standard, whichever week you choose.
04 – Locations
Two locations, chosen for the training.
Every Kairos week runs somewhere that earns its place: terrain that builds you, water within reach, and a house where eating, sleeping and recovering are as easy as the training is hard.
Location 01 · Brač, Milna, Croatia
Warm water, hard climbs, and nothing between you and the training.
Why here
An island off the Dalmatian coast. Swim from the harbour, climb into the interior, run trails that smell of pine and rosemary. Clear, warm sea for open-water and swim-run work, and roads and trails that go up properly.
The reason to come is not the weather, though the weather helps. It is that there is nothing else to do but train, eat and sleep. That is rarer than it sounds, and it is why a week here moves you further than a month at home.
Included
Five-star villa, fifty metres from the sea’s edge
All meals, cooked by a private chef
Coached training sessions every day
Performance testing on site
Boat support, and private speedboat transfers from the airport
Total focus on training and recovery
Location 02 · The Lake District
Where British endurance was made.
Why here
A place that makes you want to be better, and views that stop you where you stand.
Long climbs, technical descents and ground that builds runners who can handle whatever a race throws at them. Based in the heart of the lakes, with the fells on the doorstep.
Included
A team of professionals with you throughout the camp
Accommodation at a stunning Lake District location
Prepared breakfasts
Coached sessions across the weekend, plus individual training advice
Talks on nutrition and sports psychology
Strength and conditioning for biomechanical correction and performance
Physio clinic with Dan Anderton
Guided runs across the weekend, to suit every level
Anywhere · Personalised
Personalised camps with Team Kairos.
Built entirely around you and your performance needs.
We test first, then build the camp around what the testing says: training sessions, strength work, optimised fuelling and nutrition, recovery strategies, and the conversations that change how you perform, with the best experts in their fields.
We choose who is there to suit you: coach, physiotherapist, strength and conditioning, nutrition, sports psychology. Solo, with a partner, or with your own team or group. Everything you need to know and learn, under one roof, in one experience.
05 – The team
Multiple disciplines
One standard
Kairos is built by specialists. Physiology, psychology, elite running, physiotherapy, nutrition and recovery, each led by someone who does it for a living and all working on the same week.
That is the standard whichever discipline brings you to us. The team grows as the camps do, and every addition is chosen the same way: proven expertise, applied in person.
Steven Southern
Co-founder
Steven is an endurance coach specialising in performance physiology, nutrition and recovery. He has coached endurance athletes at the JAAA Olympic trials and consults for running, endurance and nutrition brands globally. His approach replaces guesswork with evidence: lactate and VO₂max thresholds define the training zones, HRV and recovery data decide when to push and when to hold, and everything is built on the long, patient aerobic base phases that produce durable performance rather than short-lived form. He works with athletes across every distance, from first-time racers to ultrarunners, and applies the same rigour to his own training - testing every method on himself before it reaches an athlete.
Gemma Carter
Co-founder
Gemma has coached full time for over 18 years, from complete beginners to elite athletes, across everything from the track to the ultra trails. A BSc Psychology graduate who specialised in sports psychology, she founded Carter Coaching, London Running Coach and Luxury Sports Breaks, combining coaching with genuine adventure. A competitive runner since 11, she has represented her country at 100km, holds a Guinness World Record for 50k and a 2:51 marathon PB, with wins including the South Downs Way 50, Race to the Stones, Snowdon Ultra and Lakeland Trails 55k twice. She is UK Athletics licensed and a Level 3 personal trainer.
Dan Anderton
DAHM SPORTS SCIENTIST / SPORTS THERAPIST
Dan, Director of DA Human Mechanics came from a Sports Science background with experience working in professional football, then found his way into Sports Therapy with a Masters of Science degree. He has a wealth of experience working in elite level sports including football, rugby league and travelling the world working in motorsport. Day to day Dan spends his time working in a busy clinic in Carlisle, Cumbria with patients of varying backgrounds from tradesmen, to the office and factory workers all the way to professional sportsmen and women including Olympians, all with different complaints and needs.
Kim Collinson
Elite ultra Endurance Athlete & Coach
Kim has twice represented Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the World Trail Championships, winning team Bronze in 2015, and raced three Adventure Racing World Championships. He was British Trail Running Champion in 2014 and has held records at Hardmoors 55, Lakes in a Day and the Arc of Attrition, with a top 10 at the Skyrunning World Championship and finishes at CCC, TDS and UTMB. On the fells he has won the OMM and Dark Mountains, broken the Winter Bob Graham record (15:47) and the Lakeland 24-hour record with 78 tops. A former Outward Bound instructor, he now coaches full time.
06 – Register your interest
Kairos opens in 2026.
Testing dates, camp weeks and the houses are being released to our list first. Tell us what you’re training for and we’ll be in touch personally, no automated sequences, no noise.