Over the past couple of years, the endurance industry has seen a massive influx of automated AI training apps. While technology continues to evolve, our core belief at V.O2 remains unchanged: Nothing replaces the impact, guidance, and personal connection of a human coach.

To double down on our commitment to human-led coaching, we’ve invested significant time, energy, and resources into completely redesigning and rebuilding the V.O2 Coach Marketplace.

Our goal is simple: To make it as seamless as possible for athletes across the globe to discover, connect with, and hire VDOT coaches, while giving coaches the end-to-end business tools they need to run a profitable, sustainable coaching practice.

What’s New in the Coach Marketplace?

We’ve introduced powerful search, optimization, and customization features designed to bridge the gap between athletes and coaches:

  • AI-Powered Search & Advanced Filtering: Athletes can now discover coaches through intuitive AI search tools and filter specifically by location, coach name, and languages spoken.
  • Language Selection: Coaches can now specify all the languages they speak directly on their profiles, opening doors to international athletes.
  • Customizable Athlete Questionnaires: You can now add your own custom onboarding questions that trigger automatically after an athlete purchases a coaching product, saving you time and streamlining client intake.
  • Enhanced SEO & Search Visibility: We’ve optimized the entire Marketplace for search engines and modern AI discovery engines, driving more organic traffic straight to your profile.
  • New profile page design: We gave profile pages a facelift so they have a more modern and cleaner look.

Real Growth for Real Coaches

We know these investments are working because the numbers speak for themselves. Over the past 6 months, we’ve tracked a major uptick in web traffic, athlete inquiries, and coach reviews across the Marketplace.

Even better? Transactions across our coach network have increased by 70% in the last 6 months alone.

This surge is proof positive that runners still want human expertise, tailored accountability, and proven VDOT training principles.

We’re In This Together

At V.O2, we don’t just consider ourselves a software platform; we are your business partner. Alongside our premier training prescription software, our Marketplace payment and administrative tools are designed to handle the heavy lifting so you can focus on helping your athletes hit their goals.

We invite you to check out the new Marketplace at vdoto2.com/running-coaches.

If you’re already a V.O2 coach, log in today to update your language settings, customize your onboarding questionnaire, and optimize your profile!

Have ideas on how we can further support your coaching business? We want to hear from you. Get in touch with our team today; let’s build the future of human coaching together.