Meet the Team

Lisa and Eleanor have been central to rebuilding and maintaining the physical foundations required for this expedition.

Lisa, a highly experienced physiotherapist and founder of Physio-East Physiotherapy Clinic, combines clinical expertise with advanced training in sports medicine, breathing mechanics, and movement restoration. She also has expedition experience as Physio to the Everest Marathon and has worked with multiple elite athletes across various sports including kayaking. She is a former age-group GB triathlete, bringing real-world performance insight alongside clinical knowledge.

Over recent years, Lisa has guided me from a position of chronic injury and dysfunction — including longstanding back issues and sciatica — to one where, in my late 50s, I’m more resilient than at any point in the previous three decades.

Recent setbacks are a reminder that nothing is ever “fixed”. The difference now is in the response: faster recovery, better understanding, and no longer being defined or limited by those issues.

Her specialist work in breathing — particularly diaphragm function, asymmetry, and integration through approaches such as Buteyko and Oxygen Advantage — has been a key part of that transformation.

Eleanor, a physiotherapist and APPI-trained Pilates instructor, has played a key role in maintaining strength, control, and movement quality — particularly through the winter training phase, where consistency and durability matter most.

Together, their input underpins the ability to train, recover, and keep moving day after day.

Matt is the architect behind the GooseJuice digital platform. MD of Hayward Solutions, an IT consultancy specialising in DevOps and secure cloud platforms, he designed and built the GooseJuice website — including its interactive maps and expedition datasets.

From coastal resupply mapping to route planning tools, his work turns ideas into usable systems — helping translate a complex expedition into something structured, trackable, and shareable.

He’s also an outdoorsy guy: white water paddler, climber, surfer and trekker, so he knows how the tech stuff relates to the real world of adventure!

Tim is documenting the journey behind the journey. Working across both land and water-based environments, he captures the preparation, training, equipment, and the quieter moments that rarely make it into expedition summaries.

He has also joined me on key training trips, including the River Tay and River Spey — combining creative work with shared experience in the environments I’ll be operating in.

Tim and Dyson have both played a significant role in shaping the physical preparation for this expedition.

Hugely successful coaches at national and international level, they have also been long-standing friends, role models, and training and racing partners over decades.

Their enduring and inspirational insights, sage advice, and support have helped shape my kayaking over the years — building towards this project.

My mate, Adam is my at-home “Anchor” — the person helping keep the bigger picture in view.

With a background as a GB freestyle and big water paddler, he now spends more time in open canoes, sea kayaks, and sailing keelboats — bringing a broad, experienced perspective across disciplines.

A lecturer in Outdoor Education (where we worked together at City College Norwich), Adam combines practical experience with a deep understanding of decision-making in outdoor environments. During the expedition, his role is to sanity-check progress, fatigue, and judgement — mapping those against the weather and sea-state conditions I’ll be facing.

When you’re solo, that external perspective matters.

Anja has helped shape how GooseJuice is presented to the outside world.

From early branding decisions through to social media strategy, her input ensures the story is communicated clearly and consistently — without losing the authenticity of the project.