This blog has grown out of my interest in sharing my knowledge and experience as a professional coach with other runners of all of abilities.

In this blog I am offering my professional and personal opinions on running. It is intended to be a forum for sharing ideas on training, racing and the love of running. I welcome your comments.

Why should you bother to read….well I have been running, racing or coaching for the last 18 years. I have pursed an advanced education in exercise physiology to feed my appetite for information on how the body reacts and adapts to a runners training and racing. I have developed a business advising runners of various abilities to enable them to become the best athletes they can be.

My professional goals are to develop a grass roots track club in Portland, OR and develop national class runners in a team atmosphere. I aim to find the best coaches in the United States to learn from and apprentice with. This blog will introduce you to what I have learned in my years of running, what I continue to learn from the athletes and coaches around me, and what I think of our state of running in this world.

Long may you run, Sean Coster

My bio:

Sean Coster has been passionate about running for the last 19 years. As an athlete he enjoyed competing in college at the division I level. As a student his graduate thesis project applied his knowledge of exercise physiology to a software program enabling coaches to manage their athletes. As a coach he has enjoyed the success that beginners to national class athletes have achieved with his well rounded, individualized coaching programs. Sean’s unique ability to evaluate each runner’s physiological and psychological responses to their training programs enables the athletes he partners with to realize their potential in running.  Sean is currently interested in the relationship between self-selected running paces and energy expenditure in competitive runners and the role running specific strength training has on the performance of distance runners.
Sean is a coach of the Nike Bowerman Athletic Club,  member of the coaching staff at the Nike Sports center in Beaverton OR and founder of Complete Running Programs.  Sean’s coaching advice has been seen in Runners World, Competitor Magazine and Race Center Northwest.  Sean has achieved level I coaching certification from USATF and accreditation with the Road Runners Club of America.