Dana- certified running and ultrarunning coach

About Coach Dana

Do you have ultrarunning and trailrunning dreams? Are you trying to run your road race faster? Whether you’re preparing for your fastest marathon, a stage race or your first 100 miler, Dana will provide you an engaging, challenging, and inspiring program to help you reach your potential.

As a certified running coach and ultrarunner with ultramarathon experience from 50ks to 100 milers and stage racing, she’s been influenced by the methods of the Hansons, Orton, Maffetone, Friel, and some crazy awesome science types.

Dana believes in experimental baking, geeking out on data, the Radio Lab podcast, core work, and races that last a real long time. Her motto? There is no bad weather, only poor clothing choices.

Dana has experienced the high of insanely awesome PR days, the low of ultramarathon disappointments and the extreme low of foot injuries lasting way too long. Dana knows runners, because she is a runner, just like you.

Based in Portland, serving runners everywhere.

More about coaching

Coaching certfications:

Level II Lydiard Certified Running Coach | Lydiard Foundation
Certified Running Coach | RRCA (Road Runners Club of America)
Personal Trainer | NASM (National Academy of Sports Medicine)
Certified TRX Instructor | TRX

2022 Adventure Plans:

March: Bikepacking the Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica
April: Primorska Planinarska Transverzala (Montenegro) FKT Attempt
September: Trans Alpine Run

Adventure, race and challenge resume

Ultrarunning
Vermont 100 Mile Endurance Run
Rocky Raccoon 100 Mile Endurance Run, sub-24 hour finisher
Laugavegur 55K, Iceland
Bighorn 100 Mile Trail Run
Zion 100 Mile Trail Run
American River 50 Mile Trail Run
Joshua Tree Traverse
Zion Traverse

Stage Racing
TransAtlas Marathon, 6 day stage race in Morocco
Gore-Tex 6 Day TransRockies Trail Run

"Professional" injury rehabilitation
I spent nearly all of 2016 doing ridiculous amounts of foot rehab, so if you are rehabbing or coming back from an injury, I feel you

Endurance Cycling
400 mile cycle across Jordan on the Jordan Trail

Endurance Swimming
Portland Bridge Swim - 11 miles

Triathlon
Oceanside 70.3
Victoria 70.3
70.3 Cartagena, Colombia

Cross country skiing:
Border to Border ski across Finland, 250 miles
Crater Lake XC Ski One day Circumnavigation