Performance in midlife changes.
Your system should too.
Whether you’re chasing finish lines or simply want to move, lift and live with more power - I’ll help you get there with a strategy built for this phase of life, not the last one.
Meet Wendy
Former lawyer. Ultra-runner. Strength strategist. Performance recalibrator for vegan women in midlife who are done taking advice to "slow down."
If you're in midlife and still training like it's your 20s or 30s…but your results have stalled.
It's not you.
It's the approach you've been using.
I built Edge Align™ because women like us were getting left behind by generic plans and outdated peri-/menopause advice.
Most midlife programs treat you like a beginner.
But you're not starting from scratch.
You're busy. You're vegan by choice. You know your body's changing - you just don't have the time or the clear information to work out what to do about it on your own.
My mission
I help vegan women in midlife who train consistently recalibrate - physically and cognitively - through a personalised, evidence-informed system that evolves with them, not against them.
Vegetarian since 12 and vegan since 2012, every strategy I coach is grounded in both evidence and lived experience.
You don't need to slow down. You need a system that's finally caught up with you.
I've coached over 350 women through every stage of life, plus another hundred-plus through other coaching businesses, alongside two years of one-to-one nutrition, sleep and stress consultations.
That's where the pattern recognition comes from - and why training hard on too little fuel quietly costs you strength and recovery in this phase, even when you're doing everything by the book.
Most of the women I work with come to me training consistently but not seeing it pay off - doing the "right" things and still feeling stuck, foggy or flat.
What changes with Edge Align™ isn't more effort. It's strength that holds under load, fuelling that actually supports you, and energy and recovery that make training worth it again.
The turning point: 275 miles at 50
The wake-up call
For my 50th birthday, I trained for and completed a 275-mile ultramarathon along the South West Coast Path (spoiler: it’s very hilly). I did everything “right.” And still gained weight.
That was the moment I realised the strategy I was using no longer matched the physiology I was working with.
When the rules changed
I didn’t want to give up long-distance running - it’s part of who I am. But I did need to find a way to fuel and train so those miles didn’t come with weight gain or burnout.
Especially when most peri-to-menopause advice tells women to drop the long cardio altogether.
You don’t have to run ultras to relate.
Maybe your “marathon” is balancing leadership, family, and your own health - and wondering why what used to work suddenly doesn’t.
Whatever your version, the frustration is the same: you’re doing everything right, but your body isn’t responding.
When recovery broke down
Around 52 - still in perimenopause - new symptoms kicked in.
I’ve always been a light sleeper, but suddenly I was waking several times a night: sometimes anxious, sometimes wired, always tired.
During the day, waves of anxiety would sweep through me out of nowhere.
That was the final nudge.
It wasn’t just about training harder - my whole system needed recalibrating.
The recalibration
So I rebuilt everything.
I found a smarter, more sustainable way to train and fuel - one that worked with my changing physiology, not against it.
I leaned into both my credentials and my own experience - years of studying performance, hormones, and recovery, and years of living through them myself. I used everything I knew, tested, and felt to recalibrate not just my training and nutrition, but my recovery and mindset.
Two years on, my hormones occasionally still have their moments, but now I have the tools and strategies to manage them - not the other way around.
The Align shift
That process became the foundation of Edge Align™ - the system I now teach to vegan women in midlife who train consistently and want their energy, strength, and focus back.
It's the same recalibration that rebuilt my own performance from the inside out - not a phase you finish, but a way of training and fuelling that carries you forward.
So what actually worked?
More protein, smarter macros, more food - not less.
Fuel that supports midlife hormones and endurance without the weight gain.Strength built alongside my running, not sacrificed for it. The miles didn't stop - the fuelling and recovery around them changed.
Recovery that actually counted as training.
Sleep, rest and recovery tracked and treated as essential metrics of progress.Metrics that told the truth, not the gossip.
Real data, not drama. Numbers that measure performance, not punishment.
The result?
Stronger, more resilient and clearer-headed than I’d felt in years.
Hills that no longer scare me.
Confidence to lead, coach, and live from strength - without apology.
Why work with me
Because I've lived it.
I'm in my mid-50s - still lifting, running ultras, chasing new PBs - and still testing every strategy I coach, on plants.
This isn't theory. It's field-tested. It's lived. It works.
I know what it feels like to hit the wall, to watch the approach that used to work stop working and to wonder if you're doing everything "right" yet still not getting results.
Here's where women like you fall through the cracks.
Menopause advice assumes you eat meat. Vegan and plant-based advice is written for someone who wants to be a bit healthier - not someone training consistently who wants the effort to actually pay off again. You sit in the gap between the two. That gap is where I coach.
That's why Edge Align™ exists.
You don't need more motivation. You need a plan that respects your consistency, your physiology and the phase of life you're in.
I coach women who expect more from midlife than maintenance.
Women who want to feel strong, clear and capable again - in training and in everything else.
That's me.
Behind the athlete
I came to this from law - private practice, work at the London 2012 Olympics, as well as large and complex organisations. I know what it is to deliver under real load, because I did it for years before I ever coached anyone through it. It's the life most of the women I work with are living now - so I'm not coaching it from the outside.
I’m a solo parent to one brilliant teenage son and our adopted beagle.
Moved to Devon in 2016 so we could live near the sea.
Not sporty at school - I picked double maths over PE - but…
At 29, I joined the Army Reserves and served in Iraq alongside the regular Army as a Recovery Mechanic (think ‘the AA service’ for the Army).
At 40, I entered the 156-mile Marathon des Sables across the Moroccan desert. Placed 4th in age. Ultras became my thing.
At almost 42, I became a first-time mum.
At 50, I ran 275 miles self-supported along the South West Coast Path in 10 days.
In 2021 and 2022 (aged 50 and 51), I placed respectively first and then second in the FV50 category in the Dartmoor Discovery 32-mile ultramarathon. In 2025 (aged 55), I placed first in the FV55 category.
And in-between I’ve done CrossFit and kick-boxing.
Vegetarian since age 12, vegan since 2012.
Credentials
Edge Align™ is built on evidence-informed training, nutrition and recovery methods, grounded in specialist certifications and ongoing professional memberships.
Professional memberships:
Affiliate member - British Menopause Society
Associate member - UK Strength & Conditioning Association
Allied health professional - Plant-based Health Professionals UK
Certifications and specialist training:
Midlife & Menopause Performance – Burrell Education (Peri to Postmenopause), MenoStrength
Precision Nutrition – Level 1 & Coaching a Plant-Based Diet
Dr. Stacy Sims – Menopause 2.0
Precision Nutrition – Sleep, Stress & Recovery
Premier – Level 3 Personal Trainer
Core Exercise Solutions – Pregnancy & Postpartum Specialist
England Athletics – Leader in Running Fitness
My core values
1. Lead with honesty, integrity, and proof
No hype. No BS. Just real conversations and real results - built on evidence, experience and trust.
2. Personal responsibility is where real change begins
You do the work. I provide the structure, clarity and accountability to make it count.
3. I live what I coach
I train, fuel and recover using the same principles I teach - in this phase of life.
4. Excellence every time
Because “good enough” doesn’t get you results. Precision, consistency and relentless care do.
5. Kaizen: continuous, deliberate improvement
Your system evolves. So does mine. We adjust, recalibrate and improve deliberately.
Your move
This is your strongest season yet.
Let’s build the system that supports it.
30 minutes to map your clearest next steps