Coaching.
We coach mountain, ultra, and trail runners, climbers, skiers, mountain bikers, gravel riders, and anyone wanting to build fitness or do more in the mountains. Our individual approach combines current research, proven endurance training methods, and decades of coaching experience to tailor your training to what works for you, to help you reach your goals.
Individual Coaching
Our individualize, comprehensive coaching approach gives you confidence that you’re doing the best training for your specific needs, goals, and time constraints. Coaching includes strength programs specific both to your objectives, and your personal needs.
Peer Performance: Group Training Programs
Train wherever you are, with the company of others in our virtual training groups. Seasonal programs include sport-specific training plans (running, biking, and skiing, and general fitness), weekly emails, and community and coach support through a private Slack channel.
Self-Supported: Training Plans
We offer a number of specialized training plans to suit your training goals that all include strength and mobility workouts as well as the specific aerobic workouts your sport demands.
In-Person Coaching
Running, ski, and strength training technique can be the difference between hating what you’re doing, plateauing, or even worse: getting injured, and seeing improvement, feeling better, and getting stronger. In-person sessions are tailored specifically to your needs.
Meet Coach Alison.
SPECIALIZING IN:
Form & Movement
Strength & Conditioning
Training with Restrictions
Massage Therapy
Bodywork & Recovery
Growing up amid the wheat fields of eastern Oregon, Alison has always been drawn to open spaces. She spent college under the big skies of Montana where she mountain biked, rock climbed, backpacked, and eventually combined sports for big adventure-filled days before finding her true love in trail running. She ran her first trail race in 2000, first 50k in 2003, and has been hooked on long mountain days exploring wild places ever since. In 2007 she began coaching while working at the Seattle Running Company and completing her massage training at Brian Utting School of Massage, where she’s worked with athletes ever since. She founded Cascade Endurance in 2010, joined the Uphill Athlete coaching team in 2018, and now is back full-time with Cascade Endurance.
Alison provides comprehensive training to athletes across the Pacific Northwest and beyond. Her coaching approach addresses each aspect of her athletes' training: strength and aerobic fitness, speed, injury prevention, running economy and form, event-specific planning, and mental preparation, all while balancing the other aspects of her athletes’ lives. Her professional background as a massage therapist gives her a deep understanding of the way we move and function, informing her athletes' individualized workouts. Alison also coaches a youth running club and Nordic skiers as a member of USSA.
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