“Look and you shall find” or in this case “Stop looking and Jason will find you”

I’m a runner, have been for over 20 years. Weirdly enough, my most beneficial coaching experiences have always seemed to find me. I was fortunate enough as a young lad where my high school coach took me far and wide for exposure to good competition. And at St. Joseph’s University, Mike Glavin showed me an unmatched passion for the sport. But after college, I was having trouble finding a coaching philosophy that seemed to fit my strengths and my personality. For seven plus years, I tried different coaches. I stuck to their playbook but kept losing that edge to compete and, more importantly, kept losing that drive to find that buried potential. I succumbed to training myself and becoming content with my ‘par for the course’ results. But in 2009, well past my search for the perfect coach, I met Jason Kilderry.

Coach Kilderry threw the brakes on my scrambled training and broke me down, both mind and body. His initial evaluations, time trials, and training zones were freaky good predictors of my potential fitness. I was convinced that he looked up all my PR’s, called my previous coaches, and possibly my mother for insight. None of this was true, of course. He just knows his stuff. I’m a ‘Results Now’ type of athlete and Jason proved to me that the gradual, progressive, and more controlled workouts, would garnish a ‘Bigger Bang for my Buck’ than my ALL OUT sessions that I was used to. I was able to ride my peak fitness longer, recover faster, and, most importantly, stay hungry in the head.

Since being with Coach Kilderry, I’ve made three USA Mountain Running Teams, finished 3rd in the 2009 US Mountain Running Championships, and come within seconds of my 9 year old marathon PR of 2:21. I’ve found a new passion for the sport that is now integrated into a lifestyle rather than being the extra activity to my life. Thanks coach!”
- M.B.