Freelance Writer and Running Coach
Liz is a an experienced running coach and kinesiology instructor based in Lake Tahoe and the Bay Area, California. She offers personal running, nutrition, and training services here both online and in person around Lake Tahoe, Marin County and the San Francisco Bay Area. She has been coaching since 2009 at the high school, collegiate, and adult level.
You can also find her at Whole Athlete and Ran Marin as a running coach, and the Distance Coach for Branson Track and Field. She served as the Head Track and Field Coach at College of Marin for four years, has worked as a trainer for The North Face’s Mountain Athletics program, taught strength training and Kinesiology classes at the College of Marin, and worked with Girls Stepping Up For Change, a young women’s empowerment program through athletics.
Her athletic background includes competing as an NCAA Division 1 cross country and track and field athlete for four years at Columbia University and a year at University of Southern California (fight on!). She was recently inducted into the Columbia University Athletics Hall of Fame as part of the first women's team to be inducted in school history. She currently competes for the Impala Racing Team in distances ranging from the track to ultramarathons on the trails. She has worked as a cross country and track coach, backpacking guide in Central America, manager of an adapted paddling program for individuals with mobility impairments, sea kayaking guide, group leader for high altitude service learning trips in Kenya and Peru, and is in her seventh year directing the summer running program for RanMarin.com.
She offers online and in-person coaching to individuals and groups. Liz has worked with youth soccer teams on speed and agility, adult and youth on learn to run clinics, and held sports nutrition and women’s specific running clinics. Her group running clinics can cover the topic of learning to run, gait analysis, injury prevention, speed and agility, or building stamina and endurance. Some of her recent clinics include a women’s running clinic at Sports Basement San Francisco, a 3-week series with Girls Unite San Francisco, a Learn to Run program at Nueva School’s Intersession Program, and a Learn to Run clinic at College of Marin. Get in touch to find out more about Liz’s coaching clinics and training programs.