CRUSHING BOSTON VIRTUAL GROUP
“Keep showing up.” - Des Linden.
This program is for Boston qualifiers and registered racers who are looking to crush Boston on April 21st, 2025.
As a member, you'll receive a training plan with workouts tailored to the unique challenges of the Boston course, weekly podcasts highlighting athlete stories and providing valuable insights for your prep, access to our resource library, a supportive virtual community, and guidance from two dedicated coaches who know how to prepare athletes for this course. Whether it is the weather or the hills that pose a challenge, you will be ready!
5 months of hard work will culminate in getting to meet and bond with your teammates on race weekend, including a pre-race shake-out run, pep talk from Rogue Coach Chris McClung, and a Rogue post-race party on Monday night that you won’t want to miss.
Program start date: Monday, December 9th. Sign-up no later than December 20th.
Eligible athletes: The rigor of this program is specifically geared toward anyone who qualified for Boston and are registered for the 2025 race.
Price: $60/month until you cancel. You will be charged on the day you register, then the same date each month going forward.
Get To Know Our Coaches.
About Coach Cathy Casey
I started running with my dad when I was 7 and fell in love with running at an early age. I earned a scholarship to run for the University of Texas in college. After college and a brief stint in advertising, I followed my passion for running into coaching and coached Track and Field and Cross Country at Southern Methodist University for 18 years.
I continued competing but switched from track to marathons. I have also competed in many Ironmans and triathlons.
As a coach of 20+ years, I believe in working hard every single day and making race day your celebration. You have to have fun with running – remember it is something you get to do - not have to do. Being surrounded by a great team will lift you to heights you could never achieve alone. Surround yourself with great people.
Best advice: Listen to your body and don’t be afraid of rest.
I have coached conference champions, NCAA All-Americans, Olympics Trials Qualifiers, and adult athletes of all levels. Regardless of the level, I love coaching athletes who are chasing big goals.
About Coach James Dodds
I have two axioms to my coaching philosophy: Empathy & Expertise
You will meet some who are experts but they are not approachable or able to put themselves in your shoes. The old adage, "No one cares what you know until they know you care" applies here. This principle resonates deeply within my coaching ethos. I recognize that fostering a connection based on care and understanding is essential to driving transformative progress.
Furthermore, it's wonderful to meet empathetic, good hearted, well intended people but if they are not experts, they can set you up with a plan that leaves you injured. It's crucial to strike a balance by intertwining warmth with a profound mastery of running fundamentals, physiology, and training methodologies. The symbiotic relationship between empathy and expertise ensures not only injury prevention but also the attainment of optimal outcomes. In my perspective, the significance of one cannot be prioritized over the other; rather, they must coexist harmoniously.
That's me! That's us! That's Rogue!
What To Expect
Coaching: First and foremost, Coach Cathy and Coach Dodds are both here to Coach you. This is not a generic app subscription. We have proactively anticipated your need for each week of training and will speak to these considerations during each week’s podcast recording. Furthermore, the coaches are actively engaged on the message boards to answer your personal questions. It will simply be your job to ask those questions via the discussion board. The more our coaches get to know you, the more they can shape the training to fit your needs.
Training Macro: At the start of each season, we post a long run plan so you know how many miles to run each weekend leading up to Boston. We also have a quality workout progression scripted and posted. We include the name of the workout in the macro and we will make a post every week that includes the finer details like the pace target, recovery splits, and total time and distance. We also cover the details of the workouts in the recording itself so you know what to do, how you should feel, how to modify it if you're overcooking or experience a setback, etc. Our coaches are also here to help you structure your week as we know some will execute a quality workout on a Wednesday, while others may execute theirs on a Monday. We design the workouts and help you space out the week but you best know your personal schedule and work schedule. Hence, there is some natural flexibility regarding days of the week for training.
Weekly Private Podcast Recording: In addition to the workout descriptions and details, we will also cover content regarding common & relevant topics, team questions from the message boards, occasional drop-ins by Coach Chris McClung, and teammate interviews. We love to invite a team member at a time to record with us and share your story and background. We have found these are the most cherished as it helps you get to know a little more about the people you’ll be racing with and regularly giving kudos to on Strava .
Strength Resources: We have two strength resources posted in our virtual platform for you. One is for those who like an established program that builds on itself weekly. The other is an ad hoc approach for circuits designed for those who know they need to establish a strength routine but “simply haven’t done so yet.” ;) (No judgement here. We know runners! ) Our resource tab will also include pace charts, a “Rogue Terminology” sheet, dynamic warm up routine and recovery plan for post race.
Private Strava Group: While a Strava account is not required, we will invite you to join our private group, exclusive to this team and coaches. This is not only a great way for you to support one another, it also helps us better answer your personal questions regarding target paces, modifications, etc.
Community: In our virtual platform, we have a tab titled “Open Discussion.” This thread has allowed us to connect more as a community despite being in different states and countries. This thread is also the primary way our coaches interact with you as athletes. It’s also a place to share about a great run, an epiphany that hit you during training, a question about upcoming travel and how to adjust, interesting topics that naturally arise in the world of running, and an endless array of other topics that are relevant to you all as a training community. We’ve been genuinely pleased with the level of connection we’ve seen amongst our virtual teams and trust it will be the same for you all as well.