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A modern method for mountain athletes

  • Predict your perfect pace
  • Start training at the extremes
  • Bridge the gap with converging periodization

Predict your perfect pace

 

Learn how to:

  • Determine the demands of your event
  • Benchmark your baseline fitness
  • Estimate your likely duration, and
  • Plan your target pace.

Start training at the extremes

 

Learn how to build capacity and power by starting at the extremes of strength, speed, and effective duration.

Bridge the gap with converging periodization

 

Learn how to convert capacity and power into performance. Progress your strength, speed, and duration from maximal to magical.

Testimonials

 

It's so much fun working with you. The FKTs are just a bonus. The feeling of being fast, pushing myself to new limits, is the most rewarding.

—TS, after running 53 km with 4,000 m of gain in 6h 17m

Thanks for all your help. What you had me do paid big benefits. I crushed the course in 10h20min and came in 1st.

—RD, after a 45-mile race with 12,000' of gain

Thanks so much for your really great coaching. This last training period was perfect—there isn’t a thing I would have done differently.

—EF, before a personal best in the half-marathon

I was with a former professional cyclist half my age and a guide. I could have pushed faster than either of them at any phase of the day.

—RP, after the Grand Teton in a day

Working with you has shown the scope of improvements possible. If four months can result in this much, what will 4 years be like?

—MN, while training for climbing in the Himalayas

If we've made this kind of progress in 4 months, then I look forward to what can be down over the course of a couple of years.

—JC, during preseason skimo training

Use the best of what other sports have already figured out.

 

I started climbing in 1999 and skimo racing in 2013. Training resources were sparse, especially for skimo. I had to learn from more established sports and apply what I could. Now I'm combining the best ideas from the best coaches into Arrowhead Endurance.

In 1999, I left a yellow-brick-road future and moved into a Honda Civic so I could climb full-time. Fourteen years later, I started skimo racing. I was a sponsored alpine climber in the 2000s, a member of the Canadian National Skimo Team in the 2010s, and a coach at Uphill Athlete starting in 2019. Now I'm sharing what I've learned through Arrowhead Endurance.