ROB lives just down the road from Karen, in the next village but remembers St Mewan Primary School well, having attended it as a child.  Having successfully gained his FdSc Personal Trainer degree a year ago, he is currently about to finish upgrading it to a BSc (Hons) Sports Performance and Coaching and has already been asked if he can work with the Cornwall Sports Partnership. 

Rob is a keen cyclist and athlete himself and has been for many years and can be contacted via Rob@1etal.org.uk when he is not running a cross country training session for pupils at Probus CP.  He's also an experienced marathon runner and heavily involved with Truro Running Club.  He is their assistant coach, helping to mentor new members who are very often starting to run from scratch.  Seen here, he and Karen were in the throes of doing the technical part of their Instructor Training in February 2009.

For the past two summers, he and Karen have worked as a double act, delivering Bikeability for the Poltair SSP, primarily on the Roseland but also in the Grampound area.

KAREN says "I have 27 years experience as an A.D.I. and have run my own driving school in Cornwall for the last 20 years. I also currently work with the Devon and Cornwall Police with their Retraining programme for drivers that have offended and give Speed Awareness classes.  Karen's website can be found at www.frillstuition.org.uk

However as I would rather be riding my bike then driving, when my children became old enough  to ride with me I became a Cyclewise Instructor. As this has been superseded by Bikeability, I qualified as a National Standards Cycling Instructor 18 months ago now and am actively working with my colleague from a neighbouring village.  Together we are applying to have our scheme accredited under Bikeability.  Meanwhile we are working directly with the Partnership Development Manager from the Mid Cornwall School Sports Partnership. 

I have experience at tutoring people of all ages and abilities, including those that are nervous and have disabilities.  I love what I do and would like everyone to enjoy the right to travel freely.  I trained with Cycle Experience and one of the Instructor Trainers was someone whose children both learned to drive with me, her eldest passing first time and her youngest currently about to do his test."