Est. 2006

Train for performance. Build for life.

Endurance Specific helps you build a healthy, resilient and high-performing body and mind — without pretending that training happens in a vacuum.

Our Approach

Together, we create your best times.

For 20 years, we've coached endurance athletes through the reality of work, family, travel, stress, setbacks and everything else life throws at them. We know what works, and we have a knack for making complicated things simple.

Whether you're preparing for your first endurance event or chasing your best-ever performance, we help make it clear what to do, when to do it, and why it matters — with your goals, experience and life circumstances in mind.

Great performances aren't built from occasional perfect weeks.

They come from smart, specific training performed consistently over time.

Our approach combines intelligent endurance training, simple and specific strength work, sound nutrition and recovery, and the development of the mental skills needed to perform when things get hard.

The goal isn't simply to make you faster.

It's to help you become a stronger, healthier and more capable human — so you can perform in your events and thrive in the rest of your life.

Kristian Manietta and Charlotte Paul
Kristian Manietta and Charlotte Paul running together in the mountains
Who We Are

Endurance Specific is the husband-and-wife team of Kristian Manietta and Charlotte Paul.

It started in 2006 as TriSpecific, with deep roots in triathlon and endurance coaching. After moving from the beaches of Australia's Sunshine Coast to the mountains of Whistler, Canada in 2014, our world of endurance sport got a whole lot bigger.

Today, we coach athletes across triathlon, trail and ultra running, road and gravel cycling, HYROX and other endurance challenges — from first events to Ironman, 100-milers and multi-day races, as well as adventures that don't come with a start line or finish chute.

We don't just coach this stuff.
We live it.

Because for us:

The Event
Is Life.

We believe endurance training should prepare you for far more than your next race.

It should give you the fitness, strength, health and resilience to say yes when life presents an opportunity.

To race hard. Climb mountains. Explore new trails. Take on an adventure you hadn't planned six months in advance.

And, more importantly, to keep playing — with your kids, your grandkids, your friends and your family.

That's what this is ultimately about.

Train for life. Be ready to perform.

When consistent training becomes a sustainable part of your life, you don't need to repeatedly build yourself from zero for every event.

You're always building the foundations.

Aerobic fitness. Strength. Durable muscles and connective tissue. Mental resilience. The ability to recover, adapt and keep going.

Then, when a big race or adventure appears on the horizon, we sharpen those foundations for the specific demands ahead.

We want to build a body and mind you can rely on.

One that's strong. One that's resilient. And one that can go fast when you ask it to.

Athlete
for Life.

That's what The Event is Life means to us.

It's not about being an athlete for one race, one season or one chapter of your life. It's about becoming an Athlete for Life.

It's about being Allergic to Average — choosing to keep learning, challenging yourself and seeing what you're capable of rather than quietly accepting mediocrity.

That's what we help people do at Endurance Specific.

From complete beginners taking on their first endurance challenge to seasoned athletes chasing another level of performance, the principles remain the same.

The application is personal.

Your experience. Your goals. Your life circumstances.

Our Journey

We Were Beginners Once Too

Our paths through endurance sport couldn't have been more different.

Charlotte Paul
Charlotte

Charlotte started triathlon at 29. She found a coach, followed the plan and did what she was told. In her first Ironman, she qualified for the Ironman World Championships in Kona, where she finished one place off the age-group podium.

But something more important was developing alongside the fitness: belief.

While she was training for her third Ironman, I wrote “What CP Can Do” across the top of a whiteboard. Underneath it, I wrote down the swim time, T1, bike, T2 and run I believed she was capable of — right through to her predicted finish time.

She thought I was nuts.

A year after her first Ironman, she raced Ironman Australia, broke 10 hours and finished inside the top 10 women overall. My whiteboard prediction was within about 30 seconds.

Charlotte went on to race professionally, win Ironman and 70.3 titles, record a personal best of 9:00:50 and finish 11th professional woman at Kona.

Kristian Manietta
Kristian

My path was rather less direct.

I was 25, impatient, and had an ego that regularly got in the way. I wanted to go fast — I just hadn't yet learned how to do the work required to actually get there.

Or the patience to let that work pay off.

It took five years of experimenting, learning, failing, refining and consistently showing up. I had to learn that you can't force endurance performance. You do the right work, for long enough, and then have the patience — in training and on race day — to let the result come.

Eventually, I went from an 11:27 Ironman to 8:57, winning my age group at Ironman Western Australia and finally earning my own trip to Kona.

I wouldn't trade that journey for anything.

Charlotte's journey taught us the power of good guidance, consistent execution and learning to believe in what's possible. Mine taught us about patience, ego, mistakes — and how much getting out of your own way matters.

Those two very different paths shaped the coaches we became.

We learned that coaching isn't simply about writing the perfect training plan. It's about helping an athlete understand what they're capable of, giving them a clear path towards it, and helping them consistently do the work that gets them there.

The journey didn't end with triathlon.

Our finish lines have changed over the years, but endurance sport has remained part of how we live. I've gone deep into trail and ultra running, including 100-mile and 200-mile races, while continuing to chase adventures in the mountains. These days that can mean running, skiing, mountain biking, hunting or riding motos with our son.

Charlotte continues to run trails, strength train and pursue the thing that has underpinned all of it from the beginning: being strong, fit and healthy enough to keep doing the things she loves.

After 20 years of coaching and our own decades in endurance sport, we're still training, still learning and still looking for the next challenge.

Because performance matters. But being capable enough to keep saying yes to life matters even more.

Train for performance. Build for life.

Now, Let's Talk About You

You're Probably Here Because You Want Something.

Maybe it's your first Ironman, ultra or endurance challenge.

Maybe you want to qualify for a World Championship, run a Boston qualifier, earn your way onto the UTMB start line, finish your first 100-miler or simply find out how good you can become.

Or maybe the event isn't the problem. You know what you want. You're just struggling to make the training work consistently alongside everything else in your life.

So, what's getting in the way?

  • You're training hard but not getting the results you think you should.
  • You're putting in plenty of hours, but you're not sure they're the right hours.
  • Work, family and responsibilities compete for your time — and training is the first thing that disappears when life gets busy.
  • You're surrounded by training advice, podcasts, YouTube videos, metrics, gadgets and opinions — and somehow having more information hasn't made the path any clearer.
  • Nutrition or GI problems keep sabotaging otherwise good races.
  • Or perhaps you already know what needs to be done. You're just not consistently doing it.

That last one is a harder one to admit. Because sometimes the limiting factor isn't another training session, a better watch or the latest recovery gadget.

It's clarity. Consistency. Accountability. Patience. And doing the right work for long enough to let it work.

That's where Endurance Specific can help.

We've spent 20 years helping athletes cut through the noise and focus on what actually moves them forward — from complete beginners going from the couch to their first endurance event, to experienced athletes taking minutes — and sometimes hours — off previous performances.

We've coached athletes to World Championship and Ironman victories, helped athletes qualify for championship events, tackle Ironman and ultra distances, overcome setbacks and achieve things they once weren't sure were possible.

And we've learned something important along the way: it doesn't need to be complicated.

You need the right training for you, performed consistently enough to create adaptation — while accounting for the reality of your work, family, experience, recovery and life circumstances.

No unnecessary complexity. No requirement for every expensive gadget. No pretending you have unlimited time.

Just intelligent training, clear direction and the support to keep moving forward.

You bring the goal.
We'll help you build the path.

So, How Can We Help?

Three Ways to
Work With Us

One-on-One
Coaching

Individual coaching built entirely around you — your goals, your experience, your life. Personalised training, weekly check-ins, race strategy and direct access to Kristian or Charlotte.

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Training
Plans

Proven, cost-effective plans for athletes from beginner through advanced — every distance, every discipline. Built with the same methodology as our coached athletes.

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Race With Us

We don't just coach — we race, and we put on some of the best events in the Sea 2 Sky.

Whistler X Tri — off-road triathlon, Whistler BC

Whistler X Tri

September 19–20, 2026  ·  Whistler, BC  ·  Off-Road Triathlon

A bucket-list race in a world-class mountain resort. Lost Lake swim, globally renowned MTB singletrack and a trail run through fall colours. A destination race with something for the whole family.

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Run Comfy Numb — trail running, Whistler BC

Run Comfy Numb

May 2027  ·  Whistler, BC  ·  25K & 50K Trail

Whistler's original trail race. The iconic Comfortably Numb singletrack — black-diamond tech, rock rolls, roots and bridgework through ancient forest. Once you commit, you're all in.

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Pemby Pounder — trail running, Pemberton BC

Pemby Pounder

June 2027  ·  Pemberton, BC  ·  9K · 22K · 42K Trail

Adventure starts here. Grand views of Mount Currie, old-growth forests and rugged Mackenzie trails — heart-pounding ascents and leg-pounding descents. The valley floor below, the sky wide open above.

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