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 [...]
Paige Gilchrist is the latest coach to join the VDOT Marketplace. Paige recently graduated from NAU with a Health Science degree. After wrapping up her collegiate career earning second team All American status in the 5k, Paige got her VDOT Coaching Certification and launched her online business. VDOT O2: When and how did you become [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Steady Progress We caught up with Stephen Scullion fresh off his PB at the London Marathon. Stephen finished 12th overall in 2:15:55 (74.4 VDOT) under challenging conditions [Full Results]. In fact, to show you what a huge effort it was we did a temp adjustment (72 degrees) on the VDOT Calculator and it converts to [...]
We're excited to have Coach Jake Hurysz join the VDOT Marketplace. Jake is currently a volunteer assistant at the University of Mississippi. He still holds the school record in the mile (3:58) at the University of Colorado where he was a multi-time All American in XC and Track. Because of his athletic talents Jake was [...]