John Raneri, athlete and coach for McKirdy Trained, qualified for his second Olympic Trials at the Columbus Half Marathon. The 26-year-old from New Fairfield, CT finished 2nd overall in a new PR of 1:03:49. [Full Results] Afterwards, John reflected on his race and gave thanks to his coach: As James and I discussed, we decided [...]
Katie Bland got a BQ with her PR performance at the Kansas City Marathon. [Official Result] After the race Katie sent us feedback and gave credit to her VDOT Coach John Carstens. Just wanted to send you a note regarding my success on the VDOT O2 app. I have been working with John Carstens this [...]
Parag Dongre, of Pune, India, has long been a subscriber of Daniels' Running Formula and the VDOT methodology. Earlier this year he took advantage of the VDOT Marketplace to connect with VDOT Certified Coach Tim Jones. In the past three months he has now set personal bests in the marathon (3:18:31 BQ), half marathon (1:28:28) [...]
By Stephen Kersh Jeanne Mack’s journey to a 2:39 Olympic-Trials-qualifying marathon was anything but smooth. What culminated in a superb day of racing and execution for Jeanne, was preceded by injury flare-ups, a summer (read: hot and dreadfully humid) move to New York City, and a struggle to slip into that beautiful, smooth marathon training [...]
Collin Wainwright, of Springfield, PA, set a new PR and scored a BQ at the Wineglass Marathon. Collin improved his PR by 22-minutes with an official time of 2:49:27. [Full Results] More impressively, in only his second marathon he managed to run a negative split (1:26:48 at the half) and closed with a sub-39 final [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
We recently hired two summer interns from the NYU Cross Country and Track program. Last week we introduced Julian Marrufo. Today, we’d like to introduce Ben Heintz. Ben is a Film and Television major in the Tisch School of the Arts. He just completed his Sophomore year and is training towards some big goals as [...]