Helping You Run Your Best Marathon or Ultra

• This is a specialized coaching company for Marathon and Ultra running goals so you avoid specific problems and get in-depth knowledge.

So sorry – no cyclists, triathletes, swimmers, kayakers, skiers… unless you want to work on your running.

Coaching is for runners who have decided that their goals are genuinely vital to them.

I’ve always loved the marathon and ultra mindset and the experience of running challenging races worldwide. 

So, that’s why I specialize in empowering others by coaching these specialties in my private online ultra and marathon coaching practice.

• You get Holistic guidance beyond running so you can reach your full potential.

Holistic Ultra and Marathon Coaching considers the whole YOU. 

You’ll get the sum of your strengths and weaknesses assessed and comprehensive coaching for precisely what you need. 

This program takes more time and attention to detail, so I coach a limited number of clients so you can get this complete focus. 

Contact me today to prevent injuries and struggles and become the athlete you want to be.

You’ll be able to get your questions answered and check currently available spots on my coaching roster. 

Holistic Ultra or Marathon Coaching helps you reach challenging goals by preventing injuries, incorrect training, and off-target results and enabling complete preparation. Hence, you feel great in running and life.

It helps you train with the scope of an elite athlete so you can bring joy to your running and become the runner you envision.

Beyond just a training plan, we’ll holistically and comprehensively transform your performance by evaluating the Five Elements of Holistic Training that form the foundation of superior running performance. 

These elements provide a different, multi-dimensional focus than other coaches with a run-only background can provide. 

You get optimal:

• Training optimized for your best performance AND prioritizes your overall health and well-being.

  With a core value of health, you’ll be met where you are and utilize the correct training principles to reach your goals so you prevent overtraining, exhaustion, feeling poorly, or injuries in the process. Instead, you and your running thrive. 

• Fueling, which may mean during or around running, or even your whole nutrition strategy, Sports Dietitian consultations are also available.

• Mindset, so you have the mental fortitude to reach your goals in running and life, improve self-confidence, manage performance anxiety, and optimize your mind-body connection.

• Recovery combines the right workouts, stress management, sleep, and more.

• Essentials that enhance your innate ability to train and recover could include planning around your travel schedule, more life balance, strength work, flexibility/mobility, weight change, or returning from/avoidance of injury.

This helps you get your best running, health, and life – Holistic Training embodies my company’s values. 

Hence, the company’s mission: to help you reach epic running goals holistically so you can thrive in your running and life. 

I work with runners who want to improve their marathon or ultrarunning performance but specialize in women and master’s runners who wish to transform their performance holistically to reach Epic Running Goals they may never have thought realistically possible, such as:

• Marathon Running
  • Qualifying for Boston or another World Marathon Major (or all of them).
  • Experience running a marathon feeling strong.
  • Breaking a longstanding PR.
  • Run an OTQ.
• Ultrarunning
  • Finishing an ultramarathon on top with your best performance.
  • You tried an ultra, but you want better results this time.
  • You want to run an ultra but do not know precisely how to train.
• Special Vacation/Destination Races
  • Run a vacation/challenge race in a different part of the country or world.
  • Trail races, such as when you aren’t familiar with or can’t train on the exact terrain/elevation of the race.
• Weight Loss + Running Transformation
  • You want to transform yourself with weight loss and health in a significant way that lasts and accomplishes your running goal.
  • You’ve got solid objectives for yourself and your running.
  • Instead of quick-fix, trendy diets, you’re interested in weight-loss methods that work for your running and life.
  • Coming back from/avoiding injury so you can safely restart/continue running and finally reach your goal.
  • You’re ready to commit to reaching life-changing weight-loss and running goals.  
• Limited Edition Run Training Programs
  • Coached Running Groups to help runners reach training and health goals with fun and social support.

If your goal isn’t listed here but has to do with challenging yourself with distance running, try me… I might be game. 

These things don’t happen overnight… but helping you reach your goals is also “kind of what I do.”

I first went “jogging” with my Dad when I was 5.

The more I ran, the more I wanted to learn how to go from being the average runner to a top performer. 

I joined a gym at 13, ran track in high school, and became a personal trainer and group fitness instructor at 18 to help others be their best. 

As I continued to run farther over the years and worked in the field, I studied training theories and the methods of top runners until I discovered how improvement could also be applied to runners who may not have been born with the genes of an elite athlete.

And I learned that running at your best takes more than just running or mindlessly following a coach’s running plan. 

It took a blend of what I knew to be true – the proper training customized to your needs AND a focus on holistically strengthening all the aspects of top performance.

In my 40s, I became a Certified Holistic Coach because, let’s face it, big goals take the WHOLE YOU.

That means more than checking off miles, living unbalanced, or tuning out.

Choose the alternative and you will love your run experience and gain success, freedom, and joy, which then tends to spill over into your LIFE. 

My passion for this method led to my creating a company that I’m proud to say has helped many runners feel great reaching their goals.

When you put life into your running, your performance soars. Hence my company’s name – Running with Life. 

I specialize in coaching distance runners because of the challenge and joy it can bring your life.

Although I credit my father with starting my running, he ran with me after stomping out his cigarette. His smoking habit put me off so much that it started me on a mission of holistic health and how to be well from an early age. 

I’m researching Ph.D. programs on the effects of a holistic philosophy on endurance performance and health. My love of nature may lead to becoming a certified herbalist.

I didn’t start running 100+ miles per week after being a Master’s runner… I’ve averaged running up to 128 miles per week without injury. 

I like funny T-shirts… and you may see me out running with my dog Cody.  

And I’m one of those people with a license plate frame that says, “I’d rather be running.”

Working with my company might be your next grand adventure to your goal.