Our Approach to Running
Every mile has a purpose and a pace. Nothing is junk mileage.
CONSISTENCY and HEALTH EVERY DAY
The best runners aren't the most talented. They're the ones who stay healthy long enough to stack months of training on top of each other. So the goal of every day is simple: get to the next one healthy. One great week means nothing. Twelve consistent weeks change your fitness. A year of them changes what you think you're capable of.
BUILT FROM HOW YOU RECOVER
Your plan isn't written in advance. I write next week while you're running this one, based on what your body actually did: your heart rate, your paces, your sleep, your soreness, how you felt. Recovering well? We build. Carrying fatigue? We pull back before it becomes an injury. Volume and intensity move with you, not with a calendar.
"The workout tells me what you did. Recovery tells me what to do next."
THE EASY DAYS TELL ME THE MOST
Most coaches only check in on workout days. I want to hear from you every day, especially the easy days and the off days. A heavy easy run, a bad night of sleep, a niggle in your calf, a stressful week at work: that's the information that keeps you healthy. It's how I know whether to push your next workout or protect it. I’m huge on athlete-coach communication. It’s the foundation of staying healthy and optimizing fitness.
THE LONG RUN: WHERE MARATHONS ARE MADE
The long run is the bread and butter of marathon training. Everything you do during the week bleeds into it: speed, threshold, uptempo, even your recovery days. Every session is built around what your next long run needs to look like. And it compounds. Each long run builds on the last one, week after week, until race day is just the next one. The number one reason I see runners fall apart in a marathon? They took their long runs way too easy. They never got a little uncomfortable, and they never stacked quality work inside them. Easy miles get you to the start line. Quality long runs get you to the finish. Your week tells me exactly where to take your next long run: how you recovered, what you hit, and what you're ready for.
Training for a half or a 10K? Same principle. The long run is a staple at every distance. It's just built for your race.
This is marathon training. You signed up for 26.2.
FUELING: TRAINED LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE
It blows my mind how many coaching systems never mention fueling. You can't run a great marathon without it, and it has to be trained just like your running.
Every quality session I write comes with a fueling plan: what to take and when, built around the gels or carb mix you actually use. As your gut tolerance builds, we scale it up, pushing more carbohydrates per hour, because the more you can absorb, the longer you can hold your pace.
By race day, your fueling isn't a guess. It's something you've already practiced 20 times.
RACE WEEK — TRUST THE WORK
Volume comes down, intensity stays, and the tank fills up. Carb loading in the final days and your race-day fueling plan come straight from what you practiced all block. And I'm with you every step: the taper tantrums, the phantom niggles, the "am I losing fitness?" texts, the fueling and pacing plan. Call it therapy. My goal is for you to have one thing on your mind, race day. You did the work. Show up and run your race.