My Experience With Online Coaching

Twelve ago, I decided to work with an online coach. I joined a running group but their program was geared for specific races and their training was a one-size fits all mish-mash of training that simply didn’t work for me. So, I went looking for an online coach. I knew a friend that was working with one and asked her. Within a few days, I had an online coach.

The coach was a well known elite runner: one of the very best in the mid 1980s. What the coach didn’t do was learn about me, nor did the coach care. I received emails every 2 weeks after telling the coach (not I am not saying he/she/them) what happened that week.

I stopped working with the coach after I ran a race that came within a few blocks of the coach’s house. I told him/her about the race. The coach said they would come. The coach didn’t come and didn’t send me an email saying, “hey, something came up. I couldn’t come. I hope you had a great race and look forward to hearing about it.” I heard nothing.

What I took from this is that the coach didn’t care about me. That was the dealbreaker. I needed a coach that cared about me and this was not that person.

This will never be your experience at The Runner’s Hotline. Learning about who you are. What’s important to you and really caring about you, your running and your life is what’s important to us.