Congrats to our client Dan Carlson on finishing the UTMB Grindstone 100K in Virginia! This race has 11,000+ feet of elevation gain and loss. He crossed the line in 17:18:35. He writes,
“I’ve been working with Coach Athena for 4 years, having switched to her coming off knee surgery in 2021. I wanted to try coaching as I had been through several injury cycles and knew it would be helpful to have more experience in my corner when trying to ramp back up to a marathon.
Athena helped me get back into running and build up my mileage sustainably and I had a very successful 2023 Hartford Marathon where I set a 15 min PB.
I wasn’t sure I could run it that fast but the training Athena set for me and the race plan enabled me to do it!
Since then I have done multiple marathons, shorter races and trail running objectives intermixed with a few injuries but Athena has always helped me come back stronger, culminating in being able to ramp up to and run a 100k trail race with 11,000 ft of elevation gain/loss.”
-Dan
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