Your training should be written by somebody who has run it.
One coach. A plan built for the week in front of you, then rewritten once I see how that week actually went. No app guessing at your paces, no template you found in a forum in 2014.
I write the week. You run it. We adjust.
Training plans usually fall apart in ordinary ways. Tuesday gets busy, the workout gets skipped, nothing gets moved around, and a few weeks later the schedule on your fridge has very little to do with the running you're doing.
That's the thing a coach actually fixes. Every Sunday you get the week ahead. You run it, tell me how it went, and I use that to write the next one. Pacing, mileage, and the race plan all still get worked out carefully, but they follow your last few weeks instead of a chart I made back in January.
Some weeks the right call is three easy days instead of the workout. You want somebody who will look at your log and say so.
Highlighted day is the one that mattered. Every week I write has one — and for most runners it is not a tempo at 5:22.
Three moving parts, and one of them is you.
We talk
A call or a long email. Training history, injuries, what your week honestly looks like, what you're chasing and by when. If I don't think I'm the right coach for it, I'll say so before you pay me anything.
You get a plan
Paces off your current fitness, not your goal fitness. Mileage that starts where you are. Every session carries its purpose in writing, so you know what a run is for before you head out the door.
It gets rewritten
Sore, flat, slammed at work, or flying — the next week reflects it. A plan that survives contact with real life is the only kind worth writing down.
This works well if you…
- Are coming back after months or years off and don't want to blow up in week three.
- Have a 5K, 10K, half or full on the calendar and a number you want to hit.
- Have run the same four miles at the same pace for a year and stalled out.
- Want somebody to be accountable to on a Sunday night.
How I work
- Coaching is a back-and-forth. If you'd rather have a plan handed over once, the one-time plan build is the better buy.
- Log your runs somewhere I can see them. The weekly rewrite is built on what you actually ran.
- Fueling and nutrition are fair game — ask and we'll talk it through. Diagnosing an injury is a doctor's job, and I'll build around what they tell you.
- Short timelines depend entirely on where you're starting. Give me the date and I'll tell you what's realistic.
Tell me what you're training for.
First conversation is free, there's nothing to buy on this site, and I'll give you a straight answer about whether coaching is worth it for you right now.