Coaching Results

Over the course of working with Coach Drew for six months, Ellen Smith set a 10 mile personal best of 61:21, a 69 second improvement, and improved her half-marathon by 40 seconds by running 81:50. 

Over the course of two months, Justin Lauria-Banta went from not being able to run four miles at eight minute per mile pace to completing a half marathon with an average pace of 6:53.

After working with Coach Drew for three months, in the Fall of 2019 Jon Olson debuted in the City of Lakes Half Marathon, running a time of 1:14:53. Five weeks later he set a personal best by 80 seconds in the Twin Cities 10 Mile, running a time of 55:22. Most recently in the summer of 2021 Jon ran a 1’22” PR at Garry Bjorklund Half Marathon in a time of 1:13:29, which placed his 28th in the field.

Despite a rocky build-up, Kyle Genteman ran a personal best of 2:34:03 at the 2019 CIM Marathon in Sacramento, California. This breakthrough performance was an eight minute, and three second PR. Kyle ran consistent splits of 1:16:29 and 1:17:34 for the first and second half marathon respectively. He finished in 235th place in a race where 37 men qualified for the 2020 Marathon Olympic Trials. Most recently in the summer of 2021, Kyle ran a big personal best of 1:11:26 (4’03” PR) at Garry Bjorklund Half Marathon for 15th place.

2020 was a year of limited racing opportunities. That didn’t stop Tyler Nault from setting personal bests in a road 8k (23:46), road 10 mile (52:05), and a four mile track time trial (19:09).