Ready to Revive.
Road running coaching that fits your real life.
I am Coach JW, CSEP-CPT certified, and an online road running coach. I coach road runners worldwide, from a first 5K to the marathon, with training built around your job, your family, your recovery and your life.
A free 30-minute call to see if we are a fit.
Who This Is For
You do not have to be fast or experienced. Athletes range from everyday runners at their first road race to Boston qualifiers.
First-Time Road Racers
Training for your first 5K, 10K, half marathon or marathon? I build your plan so you reach the start line healthy and finish with confidence.
Runners Chasing a Personal Best
You may have plateaued, self-coached for years or kept getting hurt. I look at what is limiting you, such as too much moderate-intensity running, missing strength work or a plan that ignores your week.
Regular Adults with Full Lives
Shift work, kids, a demanding career and life stress all draw on the same recovery system as your training. Your plan adjusts for your total stress load, not only your running.
Trained for Race Day on the Road
Every marathon plan is an 18-week, race-specific build. Plans for shorter road distances are built backward from your race date. A 6 to 8 week block of core and strength preparation comes before the build.
Race-Specific Pacing
Key sessions teach your goal race effort, set by power first and pace second, so race day feels familiar.
Long Run Progression
Long runs build in duration and include practice at goal race effort late in the run. Progression is planned around your week and your recovery.
Running Economy
Strength sessions, hill efforts and strides improve force production and running economy, the oxygen cost of running at a given pace.
Fuelling Practice
Gut training starts in the week one long run. You practise your race-day carbohydrate, fluid and sodium intake in every long session. Eat the damn banana.
What Is in Every Road Running Plan
80/20 Training
About 80% of your training sits below the first ventilatory threshold (VT1), an effort where you can hold a full conversation. Easy sessions should rate about 2 to 3 on the 0 to 10 RPE scale. The other 20% is moderate to high intensity. This is based on Dr. Stephen Seiler's research.
Strength and Mobility
Two strength sessions and two mobility sessions every week. I work alongside your physiotherapist, and my wife Jess, a registered massage therapist with 25 years of experience, helps isolate issues.
Power First, Pace Second, Heart Rate Third
Heart rate is a warning signal for heat, dehydration, fatigue, stress and illness, and I never dismiss it. I adjust your zones from your real training progress, not only from formal threshold tests.
Feedback and Check-Ins
You rate every session with RPE to build body awareness. Training Tilt keeps your plan, watch data and my feedback in one place, and we meet monthly on a video call for a performance and strategy check-in.
Real athletes. Real start lines. Real finishes.
We Can't Skip Training
One of my athletes is a pediatric oncologist at a children's hospital in The Woodlands, Texas. He set out to complete The Woodlands Marathon with this motto: if our patients can't skip treatment, we can't skip training. He finished in 3:14:52, mission accomplished.
From Two DNFs to the Boston Finish Line
After two DNFs, one of my athletes finished a 100-mile ultra in second place in the female masters category. Thirty-six days later, she qualified for Boston. She went on to finish it.
Road running coaching from $250/month.
1:1 online coaching.
Youth athletes are priced case by case, based on their goals.
Quick answers
Can I train for a marathon with a busy job and family?
Yes. Your plan is built around your job, your family, your recovery and your life. Training days, session length and rest days are set around your week, and we adjust when life changes.
Why is most of my running supposed to feel easy?
About 80% of your training sits below the first ventilatory threshold (VT1), an effort where you can hold a full conversation. Much of the aerobic adaptation happens at low intensity, and easy days let you recover well enough to run the hard sessions hard.
I am a slower runner. Is coaching for me?
Yes. Every start line and finish is worth celebrating. Athletes range from a first race to a Boston qualifier, and your plan uses effort, not comparison with other runners.
I keep getting injured. Can coaching help?
Yes. Two strength sessions and two mobility sessions are built into every week. I also work alongside your physiotherapist when you have one.
Do you coach 5K, 10K and half marathon runners, or only marathoners?
Yes. I coach every road distance from the 5K to the marathon. 80/20 training applies at any distance, and your plan is built around your race and your goal.
Ready to Revive.
Your next start line begins with a conversation.
Every plan I write is built around your job, your family, your recovery and your life. Book a free discovery call and we will talk through your goals, your schedule and whether online road running coaching is the right fit.
Free to book. No obligation.