In Episode 2 of The V.O2 Podcast, we sit down with U.S. marathoner Nathan Martin, the fastest American-born Black marathoner in history and champion of the 2026 LA Marathon. Nathan gained national attention after his viral, 0.01-second photo-finish victory at the LA Marathon [watch the finish on YouTube]. In this episode, he breaks down the [...]
Episode 1 Spotlight — Building a Waitlisted Coaching Business with Megan Cooke For our return episode, host Brian Rosetti sits down with Megan Cooke, founder of Never Give Up Coaching (NGU Coaching). Megan’s trajectory in the running world has been remarkable. A former Division I NCAA head rowing coach at Duke and US National Team [...]
We're thrilled to sponsor a new high school coaching series produced by podcasting extraordinaire Lindsey Hein. You can listen to each episode on her show, I'll Have Another, wherever you catch your favorite pods. Our goal with this series is to shed light on best practices for managing young runners so that as many coaches [...]
Ariane Hendrix is a VDOT Certified Coach and the 5th fastest U.S. born African American woman of all time in the marathon. She’s shown steady progress first running the event in 3:57 ten years ago. Recently, she placed third at the Bayshore Marathon in 2:42. Connect with Ari on her coaching profile page. Follow her [...]
Sara Lopez is an athlete on V.O2 working with Ame For It Run Coaching. Recently, Sara has set new PRs of 1:13:53 (64 VDOT) in the half marathon and 32:59 10k (65.1). Both were road racing wins too. We learn in this episode how her pursuit to become a walk-on at BYU put her down [...]
Blake Dircksen is a licensed physical therapist at Bespoke Treatments and assistant high school coach. In this episode we discuss: His strength and mobility exercises available for download on V.O2Our new Stats feature Ankle injuriesThe success he's having remote coaching his alma mater at Noblesville HS in Indiana To connect with Blake and download his [...]
Jason Martuscello is a researcher at BEESY Strategy, a behavioral science agency, conducting consumer and market research. After transforming his life by losing over 100 lbs. he became relentlessly determined to deeply understand the universal ingredients of behavior change. His weight loss has created a burning curiosity and passion to understand how we change and [...]
Pietro Gennenzi lives in Brooklyn, NY. Pietro is a musician and project engineer for acoustic architectural design firm Walters-Storyk Design Group. He recently completed his first marathon in 2:34:56 after only getting into running two years prior. The entire marathon build-up was a learning experience to say the least. In this episode we discuss: [...]
Andie Cozzarelli has one of the highest VDOT scores on V.O2 for a female athlete. She represents Oiselle, UCAN, Athletes For Yoga, AltRed, and InsideTracker. Andie was a 2x All-American in the 10k at NC State and she qualified for the Olympic Trials in 2016 in the Marathon. In this episode we discuss: Living [...]
Chris Free is an athlete based out of Virginia Beach. He recently set a new PB winning the Louisiana Marathon on a negative split (2:38:56). Chris currently works with coach Dylan Belles on V.O2. In the past 10 years he's dropped almost 80 minutes off of his marathon time. In this episode we discuss: How Chris [...]