I started coaching back in 2016 with the want to give back to the sports I have been competing in for the past 40 years. This training and race experience I have obtained over this time has made me into the coach I am today. It taught me what kind of coach I wanted and didn’t want to be. The experience of being coached defiantly drove the choices I have made as an athlete. The biggest choice being a self-coached athlete. This decision had its good and bad consequences but enabled me to develop the knowledge I use today as a coach. In the 8 years I have been coaching I have learned to take a more personal approach with my athletes. This approach enables me to connect with my athletes on a personal level enabling them to trust science I use to build out their training programing. In this time, I have learned to train the athlete and not the sport using the tools of periodization, specificity, strength, mobility and mental acuity to build up athletes to enable them to meet the demands of the event they have chosen. I am currently a Training Peaks lvl 2 Coach, USA Cycling lvl 2 coach, a USATF lvl 1 coach, USATF Cross Country Specialist. My specialization is in running, running form and coaching distances from the mile to 100k. I also work with cyclists in the disciplines of road, gravel, crit, tt, cyclocross, mtb, triathletes racing sprints to the ironman, and military personnel. I am the current head coach of the Windward Youth Track and Field Team.