Coach Sarah

Our coaches do so much for us with Team in Training. Every Saturday, they are out there, giving of their weekend, their time, and themselves. They give us training advice, train with us, and help us with stretching, nutrition, and injury prevention. They work hard to come up with training schedules and routes that are fun and interesting. TNT would not be possible without them.

On race day, each team sends one coach to the event. In that way, there are dozens of coaches there to support us in our events. Our head coach for Richmond, Sarah, went for out to Arizona with us as the coach for Team Virginia. The coaches work incredibly hard. In Arizona, the marathon and the half marathon were more or less going on simultaneously, so coaches only had to do one or the other. Sarah got assigned to the marathon, and she met everyone from team Virginia at one point or another.

She probably put in 30-32 miles that day, running and walking with us for a distance, then going back to run with others from the team. It was her first TNT event as a coach, and I think she enjoyed it a lot. We were all glad to have her out there with us. We all owe her a lot of thanks.

Plus, in addition to being a great coach, she is a really nice person and a pleasure to be around.

Here are Sarah and I near mile 24, with me giving a high five for five years in remission. She walked with me for about a half mile, getting me to the bridge connecting Scottsdale and Tempe. How about that purple hair!