Coach Rebecca

Most training plans are written for an athlete who doesn’t exist — someone with no deadlines, no kids, no bad nights of sleep, and nothing… Read More »Why Your Training Plan Should Bend Before It Breaks

One of my favorite training principles is individuality.  No two athletes will have the exact same internal load response to a given external load.  This… Read More »No One Size Fits All: Lessons in Coaching the Individual

    I love data.  I’m a trained sports scientist that spent 7.5 years of postgraduate study collecting data, analyzing data, running statistics, and writing… Read More »The Art of Coaching

At the stroke of midnight in the first minutes of 2024, I was on ultrasignup furiously hitting the register button on the Rim to River… Read More »2024. The Year of the Unexpected.

  When an athlete on Team Performance Project told me he had registered for the Divide 200-mile trail race in Alberta, Canada I was intrigued. … Read More »How to Train For a 200-mile Trail Race

  In the latest Ultrarunning Magazine, they had a theme of longevity in running.  They interviewed ultrarunners in their 60’s and 70’s who were still… Read More »5 Tips for Longevity in Running

    My favorite training principle is specificity.  As the name specificity implies it means that you need to train with the specific demands of… Read More »How to Use Specificity to Train for Trail Ultramarathons

    I remember when my Mom turned 40.  Someone gave her a coffee mug that said, ‘Over the Hill’.  There was a birthday card… Read More »40