Jennifer Blalock improved her PR by 32-minutes and BQ'd at the Sri Chinmoy Marathon. Her official time was 3:26:02. [Full Results] Jenn trains with Coach Shayne of TeamWRK on the VDOT O2 app. All her hard work this past year paid off: "I hated every minute of training, but I said don't quit, suffer now and [...]
Michael Cavalli: What is the most important aspect(s) of marathon training to help the runner maintain pace/efficiency in the latter, more difficult miles of the marathon? Dr. Jack Daniels: A very important approach to maintaining pace and efficiency in the latter miles of a marathon race is to not go out too fast. Run the […]
In the near future we'll be adding Reviews on the VDOT Marketplace to help customers choose the right coach. In the meantime, we surveyed some of the athletes who have signed up thus far. It's important to us that we're building a platform of the most experienced, science-based coaches online, but also coaches who provide great [...]
Coaches can now save even more time with new features under Training Templates: copy template, copy and slide weeks while editing a template. Back in April we updated the coach module with the ability to edit/save templates, organize into folders and easily apply to your athletes. Copy Templates Coaches can now copy templates, make edits [...]
Congrats to our most recent VDOT Certified Coaches. To date, 427 coaches have gained access to the exam by Dr. Daniels and 223 have become certified from 25 different countries. We just updated our Coach Registry with the latest coaches to pass the exam: Becky Vander Heiden, Monona, WI Andy Aubin, Hatboro, PA (Silver Fox [...]
This past year Taryn O'Neill of Lake Country British Columbia has been on a tear setting meet, club and national records. During this time she's recorded new personal bests of 4:17 in the 1500m (64.9 VDOT), 9:15 in the 3000m (64.3 VDOT) and 9:54 in the 2-Mile (64.9 VDOT). Taryn works with Olympian and VDOT [...]
We love featuring great teamwork on the blog. Lillian Park and VDOT Coach Leah Rosenfeld have developed a great coach-athlete relationship over the past year and a half. This weekend Lillian's PR streak continued with a new personal best at the Juneau Half Marathon. It's clear the trust and respect they have for each other [...]
The coach-athlete relationship is key when training for optimal performance. It takes more than just good workouts and advice. Here's a great outcome as a result of understanding and appreciation from both sides of the relationship. VDOT athlete Bradley Geilfuss set a new PR by almost 6-minutes (1.6 VDOT points) at the Mountains 2 Beach [...]
Today, all coach subscribers on VDOT O2 have the option to create a VDOT Marketplace profile to market their expertise and training products. Because VDOT is a trusted coaching brand worldwide we're starting to see more and more transactions every week. Our goal with the marketplace is to enable coaches to scale their coaching business and to provide athletes everywhere [...]
Until recently, athlete/coach communication has been limited to a notes area at the bottom of a training activity or rest day. After feedback from our coach users we've now add the ability for both athletes and coaches to add notes separately. Engage With Notes In the example (right), a coach left a note to encourage [...]