Performance Mentorship

Online coaching for runners seems to have reached a saturation point. One potential client recently responded with this comment:

Quite frankly, it seems everyone and their mother wants to be my online coach!

What makes Active at Altitude different

Active at Altitude is anything but your typical online coach. We provide remote performance mentorship, that is so much more than coaching. We hosted residential training camps for adult runners of all abilities in Estes Park, Colorado, for 17 years, between 2007 and 2022. Hundreds of runners walked through our front door and left more confident, educated, and inspired than they could have imagined. Our training camps were recognized as one of the top 10 residential training camps for adults in the United States, and were featured by Runner’s World as one of the six bucket list running retreats for adults. We developed expertise in creating experiences for runners that involved high-touch, human-level personal growth for everyone that participated. We didn’t just train our participants, we changed people’s lives. Many of our previous campers still meet up for races and events many years after experiencing one of our camps. We bring the expertise we developed within our camps to every performance mentorship client that we work with. Delivering the retreat experience, expert analysis, and personal access directly to your training season.

What is Performance Mentorship?

99% of running coaches sell physical training plans (miles, intervals, paces). Virtually nobody coaches the mental mechanics of racing. You can find low cost generic training template programs that will provide a basic overview of the physical training required for a race or event. As runners we know we don’t fail our goals because we didn’t know how to run Yasso 800s; we fail because of race-day anxiety, hitting the wall, self-doubt, and lack of mental strategy. Active at Altitude performance mentorship provides Mental & Physical Integration—something a generic template coach can never offer.

Mental & Physical Integration

A central pillar of our Colorado training camps was the power of mindset. While mindset directly impacts race performance, it has an even deeper effect on how runners experience the entire training journey. Recognizing this missing piece in endurance training led us to create activacuity. activacuity is a user-friendly iOS app that is a dedicated, science-backed mental training ecosystem that fills the gap between generic mindfulness apps and performance psychology.

Principles not Formulas for Physical and Mental training

I have helped ‘000s of athletes achieve or surpass their endurance goals for more than 30 years. I am a certified Level II Lydiard Running Coach – Arthur Lydiard was the most successful running coach in history, and his principles live on through the Lydiard Foundation.

Lydiard training is based on these five core principles:

1. Maximize aerobic capacity first
2. Tune in to your inner mentor
3. Balancing workouts
4. Sequential development of energy systems
5. Correct timing

I work with individual athletes to help them achieve their goals – many athletes have set PR’s and / or BQ times – one of the factors I love best about Lydiard training is that it encourages healthy training. Rather than being constantly on a knife edge of sickness and injury, it enables athletes to be consistent, and follow sustainable training principles. I was heartened to learn during the Lydiard certification process that his training principles were used to train athletes from World and Olympic Champions, to cardiac rehabilitation patients recovering from heart surgery training to run their first marathon. The same principles apply whoever you are, regardless of ability and experience.

As your Performance Mentor, I can be objective about your strengths and weaknesses, and see where you it is possible for you to make the most gains in your training.

I was also previously  the Official Training Partner for Vacation Races, a series of half marathons based at National Parks around the US . Read more about this exciting race series here.

Program Deliverables

What’s included in Month 1:

• Deep-Dive Fact-Find Call: Full assessment of your history, schedule, and goals
• Customized Roadmap: A personalized training strategy tailored specifically to you
• 2 x Two-Week Mentorship Blocks: Hands-on feedback and adjustment as you build momentum
• Discounted access to our activacuity app: Unlimited access to our science backed mental training app for endurance athletes
• Mindset Guidance: Tips and recommendations for achieving a more positive mindset and approach to training

Further program details:

• Minimum 3 month program period
• Monthly charges due in advance, payment by personalized online link settled by debit or credit card
• Additional mentorship components available as agreed at additional cost
  • Run form video assessment
  • Personalized training or healing guided imagery audio sessions
  • Other options available on request

Regular contact within a Performance Mentorship Program can be tailored to meet your personal needs, from once weekly WhatsApp meetings or video calls to less frequent connections.

Ready to Move Past Plateaus This Season?

Because Performance Mentorship is a high-touch, highly personalized experience, I only accept a limited number of athletes per season. Book a complimentary 10-minute strategy call with me to see if Remote Performance Mentorship is right for your upcoming season! Use the button below to send your request today.