For your first race — and your next hundred.
One-on-one coaching for trail and ultra runners — from first timers to chasing a new PR. Based in Colorado, working with runners anywhere.
A plan that respects the vertical.
These are the things we build together — working from general fitness toward the specific demands of your race and terrain. Everything gets adjusted week to week from your own feedback: how you slept, how the last one felt, what life threw at you. No copy-paste, no guesswork.
Aerobic foundation
Time on feet, easy vert, and the consistency that makes everything else hold. We build the engine first.
Speed & threshold
VO2 and lactate work — the general fitness that lifts your ceiling before we make it race-specific.
Climbing & descending
Uphill power, power-hiking, and durable downhill legs — what mountain running asks that the road never does.
Sharpening & taper
Race-effort, fueling and gear dialed to your course — then a taper that has you arrive sharp, not hollow.
Find your plan in two minutes.
Answer five quick questions about your goal and where you're at. I'll point you to the right starting place and send you a personalized training roadmap.
Work with me one on one.
Month-to-month, cancel any time. Every 1:1 plan starts with a free call so we can decide together whether it's the right fit — no pressure, no hard sell.
- Individual, customized plan — never a template
- Delivered in TrainingPeaks (or your platform)
- Monthly check-in calls
- Unlimited async support — reply within 24 hrs
- Weekly adjustments from your feedback
- Race strategy before goal races
- Fueling & hydration guidance
- Post-race analysis
- Everything in Standard, plus
- Weekly or biweekly video / phone calls
- Season-level planning
- Race-day support
- Crew & logistics planning
- Strength & mobility built into your plan
- Coach-built, week-by-week plans
- 50K, 100K and 100-mile blocks
- Preview the first two weeks free
- Yours to keep, no subscription
Structured plans you can run on your own.
The same periodization I use with my athletes, packaged to run without a coach. These are being finalized now — preview the first two weeks of any of them today, and join the waitlist to hear the moment they launch at $20 each.
First 50K
Your on-ramp from road or shorter trail races to a confident first 50K finish.
First 100K
Bridge from the 50K to your first 100K with smart volume and back-to-back long days.
Advanced 100K
For experienced ultrarunners chasing a time goal or a competitive 100K result.
100-Mile Build
The full build to your first — or fastest — hundred, including night-running and crew prep.
Hi, I'm Jacob — and I'll see you on the trails.
I came up as a track and cross-country runner, found the marathon at the end of college, and ran Boston before the trails pulled me in. My first ultra was a 50-miler in the Appalachians in 2016; moving out west reignited it, and in 2023 I finished my first hundred, the Run Rabbit Run.
After years of self-coaching, I earned my UESCA certification — first to coach myself better, then because helping friends drop their times turned out to be the best part. My favorite distance is the 100K: short enough to finish in a day if it goes right, long enough that it makes you solve problems.
There's something special about running 100 miles — even when some of it is in the dark.
Before you lace up.
Big days are built from ordinary ones. Let's build yours.
Book a free call and we'll figure out the right next step together — no pressure, and no obligation to sign up.