Happy to offer phone to clients as well, within certain hours or with advanced notice– specialties are road or trail, beginner/intermediate, running through/after pregnancy, including strength training guidance, heat training, obstacle course racing/training.

Consistency is THE key. There is no magic workout, only consistently working and recovering that get you stronger, more adapted, and fitter than you were before. This can be achieved alone but is streamlined and a more thorough and enjoyable process with the guidance of a coach and community of like-minded athletes.

I have coached in different capacities for 13 years. I coached kids age 7-17 in various sports at a camp in Arkansas for 4 summers, then I was a certified personal trainer until I had my first child. I got my RRCA level 1 certification in March 2022 and have been working to continue growing my knowledge and coaching experience since then. I am interested in getting the level 2 certification or a different, ultramarathon-specific certification as well.

I’m a stay at home mom of 3 kids, and we’ve unexpectedly ventured into the world of homeschooling. I live in Florida and thankfully seem to handle heat training pretty well. My first ultramarathon was at the Keys 50k in 2019 while I was 9 months postpartum and still breastfeeding my second son, and I managed to win my age group despite feeling unsure of my performance. I have since completed 10 more ultramarathons up to the 50 miler with aspirations to achieve a hundred miler in the future. I started running trails in the fall of 2021, and that’s when I really fell in love with the trail and ultra community. I still have aspirations to achieve the Boston standard, but trail and ultra running also opened my eyes to so many new goals I want to chase. I’m nowhere near my peak fitness yet, and I know now I’m the only limit to what I can achieve!

My local running groups have given me some awesome mentors and supporters, but I’m also a huge Sally McRae fan. She is the epitome of consistency for DECADES, and she helped me see that the strongest athletes are the ones who never let setbacks keep them down. It’s easy to see her recent success and assume she is just a natural, but when you look closer at how hard she has been working and adapting and for how many years, it’s clear the formula is to just keep grinding, day after day, and to learn to enjoy the process. Matt Fitzgerald has also been someone whose training philosophies and books have influenced me recently, so I expect his work on the 80/20 method will largely affect the way I coach going forward.

My first 50k was life-changing because I truly never thought I could survive an ultramarathon. I have been proving myself wrong about my limits ever since, and even when I have new and huge, scary goal races, a smaller piece of me doubts whether I can actually do it. I also raced a 6 hour ultra in October 2022 that was a blast and somehow landed me on a list of top 100 female ultramarathon performances of 2022 in Ultra Running Magazine. That race showed me just how far having fun at a race can take you performance-wise.

• RRCA Level 1 certified
• ACE-CPT

• 11x ultramarathoner

• 10k: 46:44 (1/29/22) Back The Blue 5k/10k Brooksville, FL
• Half marathon: 1:46:07 (12/18/22) Mount Dora Half Marathon
• Marathon: 4:11:05 at 7 weeks pregnant with first child in Panama City Beach, FL (hoping to change that this fall!)
• 6 hour: distance PR within time constraint 34 miles at Tick Tock Ultra
• 50k: 5:17:25 (10/1/22) Tick Tock Ultra 6 Hour
• 50 mile: 10:06:51 (4/2/22)

• https://www.runofthemillmama.com/post/surviving-an-ultra-with-lower-volume-training
• https://www.runofthemillmama.com/post/what-grounds-you-through-tough-times
• https://www.runofthemillmama.com/post/marine-corps-marathon-race-recap