Coaching for the Long Trail Ahead
Trailfurther coaching isn't built around a single race on the calendar. It's built around the next twenty years of moving well in the mountains.
We work with masters athletes who want to stay strong, durable, and confident — capable of a self-supported traverse, a multi-day fastpack, a bikepacking route stitched together from forest service roads, or, sure, a race now and then if the mood strikes. The goal isn't a peak. It's a life that keeps letting you trail further.
Training for Living, Not Just for Racing
Most coaching plans are built to peak you for one day. Ours are built to keep you moving well on all the other days.
That means strength and mobility work that protects joints and connective tissue over years, not just weeks. Recovery practices that actually fit a life with a job, a family, and a body that needs more attention than it used to.
And guidance on capacity and durability — the kind that lets you say yes to a last-minute overnight or a bigger objective without needing a 16-week buildup.
If you're training toward a specific event, we'll get you there. But the plan is designed so the fitness outlasts the race.
Built Around Your Own Adventures
Most of the best trail experiences aren’t begun on a start line. Trailfurther coaching includes guidance on the adventures that don't come with a traditional aid station.
Whether it's a rim-to-rim-to-rim, a bikepack loop through new terrain, or a weekend overnight you've been putting off, we help you plan it and train for it.
Coached by Someone Who Lives This
Susan brings 20+ years as a competitive endurance athlete on road and trail, and her own training has shifted the same way ours has for you — more strength work, more cycling and Nordic skiing as cross-training, more attention to what keeps a body in the mountains for the long haul.
Susan is a UESCA Certified Ultrarunning Coach, 200 Hour Yoga Teacher, and Precision Nutrition Level 1 Certified Coach
Some of Susan's Own Trips and Results
Self-guided Adventures
Zion National Park Traverse, 50 miles
Eastern Sierra Overnight Fastpack
Eastern Sierra Overnight Bikepack
Grand Teton Multi-day Run Tour
Northern Arizona 3-day Bikepack
Grand Canyon Rim-to-Rim-to-Rim
Oregon Cascades Multi-Day Gravel Bike Tour
Races
2025 Mammoth Trailfest 50K, 1st F 50+
2019 Marin Ultra Challenge 50M, F-3 (1st Masters)
2016 Crystal Mountain Sky Marathon, F-2 (1st Masters)
2016 Mt. Ashland Hillclimb 13.3M, F-1
2015 Javelina Jundred 100K, F-1
2015 Siskiyou Outback 50M, F-1
2015 Volcanic 50K, F-1
2012 Eugene Marathon, F-11 (3:04:20)
2007 Ironman Couer d'Alene