Featured Coach - Jack Coleman Marietta High School, 18 years as Head Cross Country and Distance Coach for Track & Field Won the Boys State Championships in 2014 & 2015 and the Girls in 2017 Finished 1st @ Nike Southeast and 15th at NXN (top Georgia finish ever) Earned the 2014 & 2015 Georgia Coach [...]
VDOT Coach Stephen Scullion used back-to-back races to tune up for his London Marathon debut next week. First, he won the Omagh Half Marathon in Northern Ireland while cruising at goal marathon pace. His official time was 1:07:01 (71.6 VDOT). [Full Results] He came back a day later in the TQ10k and won again finishing [...]
Matt DeBole is currently a featured running coach on the VDOT O2 Marketplace. Matt's coaching bio is unique when you think about his experience as an athlete, coach, and physical therapist. This combination is hard to come by when searching for a running coach. He received his Doctor of Physical Therapy at the University of [...]
We caught up with VDOT Coach Nick Hilton fresh off his victory at the Disney Marathon. Nick was the first American to win there since 2004. We're especially excited because he's actually the second coach on the app to win a large marathon in the past two months (see Tim Ritchie's interview here). Not only [...]
Malindi Elmore is currently a featured running coach on the VDOT O2 Coach Marketplace. According to her, she has been a competitive athlete ever since she started racing her sister to bed. Her first coaching job was back in 1998 as a Stanford Cross Country Camp counselor. She went on to set school records at Stanford, win [...]
We caught up with Tim Ritchie fresh off his impressive victory at the U.S. Marathon Championships in Sacramento. While pursuing his athletic goals Tim is coaching athletes on VDOT O2 through the fast growing McKirdy Trained private coaching group. We were excited to learn more about his perspective on life as a pro athlete, his [...]
Featured Coach - Ian Loughead Head coach of the BLT Runners, based out of Nova Scotia, Canada Runner for 8 years First official year coaching runners VDOT Certified Coaches 10 athletes on the app Why Ian Loves VDOT Coach I have been training using VDOT principles for a while now (from Daniels' Running Formula) with good [...]
The VDOT Marketplace allows athletes to search for coaches based on keywords to help find the best coaching match possible. Today, if you select the tag "High School Runners" you'll find Olympian and former Stanford University standout Malindi Elmore. Malindi now offers a unique product for young athletes: Support Coach For High School Runners. Oftentimes, young [...]
Lindsay Jones continues to make huge strides under the coaching guidance of her father. Tim talks about her recent success and how the app has helped them achieve it. Lindsay Sets Another PR Thanks again to VDOT O2 and Daniels Running Formula! Lindsay completed another successful block of training with a solid 8K and a [...]
Kiya Dandena has been working with VDOT Coach Jay Bawcom on VDOT O2 since this past February. He currently has one of the highest VDOT scores on the app logging upwards of 100 miles per week. All Kiya's hard work and dedication paid off this past weekend at the U.S. Marathon Championships where he had a breakthrough [...]