Tom says: "Train at current fitness level to race at peak performance! "

Tom started runcoach to make proven training methodology more widely available through the web.

Tom has qualified for the Olympic Trials Marathon three times (2000 '04 and '08). He trained under legendary coach Harry Groves at Penn State and graduated in 1996. Tom ran with the Nike Farm Team and Coaches Jeff Johnson, Vin Lananna, Jack Daniels and Ray Appenheimer from 1996-2004.

From 2004-2006 Tom served as Assistant Distance Coach to Frank Gagliano for the Nike Farm Team. During that time the team included more than 15 Olympic Trials qualifiers, 3 Olympians and 4 National Champions.

In 2007 Tom coached Jim Sorensen to the Over-40 World Record in the 1500m = 3:44 (4:02/Mi. equivalent).

Tom has coached 7 women to the U.S. Olympic Trials including Brooke Wells who finished 19th at the 2012 Marathon Trials in Houston.

Through runcoach, Tom has helped thousands of runners set new PR's. The service is the only algorithmically-fueled training on the web designed to bring the World-class service of a personal coach to runners of all levels at an affordable price.

Kate says: "Enjoy the journey! "

2004 Olympian Kate O'Neill Tenforde joined the runcoach staff in April, 2010.

Kate competed for Yale University, where she was a seven-time All-American, ten-time Ivy League Champion, and was named NCAA Woman of the Year for Connecticut in 2003. She was a 3rd place finisher in the Chicago Marathon in 2007, won the U.S. Half Marathon Championship in 2008 and made the U.S. World Cross Country team in 2004.

Kate joined runcoach in 2010 and manages the customer experience. She has helped thousands of runners reach their goals.

Rob says: "I'm a walker not a runner but I can code anything! "

Rob joined runcoach in May 2009.

He previously held the position of Sr. Architect & Project Lead at Technodyne. Rob is PHP/MySQL Certified and an E-Commerce expert.

Renga says: "I love running more than chocolate. "

Renga joined runcoach in July, 2008. He has extensive experience in Software Development especially in ERP Applications Development, Database Design and Data Warehousing.

From 1996-2004, he worked as a Development Manager of Order Management Applications Division at Oracle HQ. From 2004-2007, he worked as a Data Warehouse Architect consulting with companies like EFI, Sephora and Shutterfly.

He met Tom several years ago and started training again under runcoach. With renewed passion for running and training, he decided to become an active member of the runcoach team and wrote the code for the runcoach methodology.

Mandy says: "I have to run, just to keep up! "

Mandy joined runcoach in March of 2011.

Prior to that she was the CFO at HomeGain, a subsidiary of Classified Ventures. Mandy is a graduate of University of California Berkeley & San Francisco State University, College of Business, MBA.

Cori says: "If I don't run today, I'll definitely run tomorrow. "

Cori joined runcoach as the Director of Marketing in June of 2012.

Prior to runcoach, she worked at Oracle for 14 years as a Senior Manager on the Marketing Events team where she managed C-Level executive programs, product launches and Internal Sales Incentive events. Cori lent her expertise to the rollout of the original adjustable training from Focus-N-Fly in 2008 which is now runcoach.

Dena says: "If I don't answer, I'm running"

Dena Evans joined runcoach in July, 2008 and has a wide range of experience working with athletes of all stripes- from youth to veteran division competitors, novice to international caliber athletes.

From 1999-2005, she served on the Stanford Track & Field/ Cross Country staff. Dena earned NCAA Women's Cross Country Coach of the Year honors in 2003 as Stanford won the NCAA Division I Championship. She was named Pac-10 Cross Country Coach of the Year in 2003-04, and West Regional Coach of the Year in 2004 Dena graduated from Stanford in 1996.

Danny says: "I only know how to live one way = running 80 miles per week. "

Danny joined runcoach in 2012.

Prior to joining runcoach Danny worked as an east coast sales manager for Columbus Salame. Collegiate cross-country and track, Occidental College.

David says: "Want to run? I'm in! "

David joined runcoach in 2012 and manages runcoach partnerships and products. He is also the CEO and Founder of Candidate Metrics, a company that helps firms test and evaluate engineering candidates. Prior to Candidate Metrics David has held positions as a Software Developer at AOL, Marketing Manager at Scalent Systems and Product Manager at mSpot. David is a graduate of Princeton, BSE in Computer Science and Stanford MBA. He also ran collegiate cross-country and track.

Christopher says: "I'm 30 going on 20 because of running and CrossFit! "

Mr. Angelo joined the runcoach team in 2009 and is currently a Running Development Consultant. He is also a Senior Director of Finance for Silicor Materials. He has 10 years of experience spanning investment banking, investments and corporate finance. Mr. Angelo has an MSc in Law and Accounting from the London School of Economics and a double major in finance and economics from Lehigh University, where he also ran varsity track and cross-country. He is a U.S. Marine Corps Officer Candidate School graduate.

Mebrahtom (Meb) Keflezighi joined the runcoach board of directors in October of 2012. Throughout his 15 year professional running career, Meb has won over 20 national titles, set two national records, and brought the US back to the top of the international distance racing scene. His most impressive accomplishments to date include his silver medal in the 2004 Olympic Marathon, his win at the 2009 ING New York City Marathon, and his fourth place finish in the 2012 Olympic Marathon.

Born in Eritrea, Meb and his family moved to San Diego in 1987. He competed for UCLA where he won four NCAA distance titles and 12 All-America honors.

Meb lives and trains in Mammoth Lakes, California. He and his wife Yordanos have three daughters.

Rusty has just completed the successful 16 month leadership role as Coordinating National Co-Chair for Technology for Obama (T4O) for the reelection of President Obama.

He is also the Chairman of The GRAMMY Foundation in Los Angeles and President of the Board of Trustees of the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco.

Corporately, most recently Rueff was the Chief Executive Officer at SNOCAP, Inc. until the acquisition of the company by imeem, Inc. in April 2008.

Before joining SNOCAP in 2005, he was Executive Vice President of Human Resources at Electronic Arts (EA) from 1998 until 2005. He was also with the PepsiCo companies for more than ten years, with the Pratt & Whitney division of United Technologies for two years, and in commercial radio as an on-air personality for six years.

Rusty holds an M.S. in counseling and a B.A. in radio and television from Purdue University. In 2003 he was named a distinguished Purdue alumnus, and he and his wife, Patti, are the named benefactors of Purdue's Patti and Rusty Rueff School of Visual and Performing Arts. He is a corporate director of HireVue, Inc., Glassdoor.com, Rethink Books and runcoach. He is also the co-author of the book Talent Force: A New Manifesto for the Human Side of Business. Rusty and his wife, Patti, reside in Hillsborough, CA and Charlestown, R.I. In October 2012 he ran his seventh Marathon with a PR in Columbus, Ohio at 3:48:19.