My coaching philosophy is simple: train with purpose, understand your effort, and build fitness that lasts.

I primarily use heart rate (HR) zone training to help runners get more out of their training. Rather than focusing only on pace or running harder every day, HR training helps you understand how your body responds to different levels of effort and how each workout contributes to your progress.

What is heart rate training?

Heart rate training uses your heart rate to guide the intensity of your runs. By training across different heart rate zones, you can develop aerobic endurance, improve your ability to sustain faster paces, and build speed while balancing effort and recovery.

Each zone serves a different purpose, from easy recovery runs and aerobic base building to tempo efforts, threshold training, and higher-intensity workouts. Learning how to use these zones helps you train smarter, avoid making every run too hard, and get more out of the time you put into running.

Whether you're just getting started, working toward a faster 5K, or preparing for a half or full marathon, I'll build a training plan around your goals, current fitness level, schedule, and experience. Your plan will incorporate heart rate zones, rate of perceived exertion (RPE), and pace guidance to help ensure each workout has a purpose.

Heart rate is an important tool, but it's not the only one. We'll also consider how you feel, how you're recovering, and how your fitness is progressing. The goal is to help you understand your training, recognize when to push and when to ease back, and become a stronger, more confident runner over time.

With personalized weekly plans, ongoing communication, and adjustments as needed, you'll have the guidance and support to stay consistent and work toward your goals in a way that's effective, sustainable, and realistic for your life.

It's not just about running more. It's about understanding how to train better.

What's Included: 

• Personalized weekly training plan built around your goals, schedule, and current fitness level
• Full heart rate zone training with workouts designed to develop endurance, threshold, speed, and recovery
• RPE and pace guidance to help you understand effort and make smart training decisions
• Ongoing communication and support to answer questions and keep you moving forward
• Training adjustments based on progress, recovery, and changes in your schedule or life
• Strength training guidance to support performance and reduce injury risk
• Race strategy and pacing guidance to help you execute your race-day plan
• Fueling and hydration guidance to support your training and recovery

If you're ready to take the guesswork out of your training, understand your effort, and work toward becoming a stronger runner, I'd love to help you get there!