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About the Coach: Chris Sullivan, MSEd, CSCS
Chris earned his Master’s in Health & Human Performance at Baylor University and is certified by the National Strength & Conditioning Association. Throughout his 8-year career as a strength coach, Chris has worked with children through professional athletes in a wide variety of sports, most notably as an assistant strength coach for the San Antonio Spurs. With runners, he has experience training sprinters through marathoners. Chris was also a member of the Ultra Division Champs, Team Bald-Her-Dash, in the 2010 Epic Cache-Teton Relay. In addition to providing the training programs for Epic Relays, each week Chris will bring you a new Tip of the Week to aid you in your training and help educate about some of the science behind the sport.
Training Schedules
For novices and veterans of Epic Relays, training for a relay race such as this can be a daunting task. Not only is it tough work, but knowing how much and what kind of runs to do can be tricky due to the unique nature of the race. On the one hand, each leg is only 3-8 miles in length; therefore you want to try to maintain a fast pace on each leg to help improve your team's overall time. On the other hand, having to run these legs 3 or 6 times depending on whether you are on a regular or ultra team makes the race much longer and therefore maintaining that fast pace on each leg becomes much more difficult. In other words, running an Epic Relay becomes a combination of a 5K, 10K, half-marathon and for some a marathon or even more, all wrapped in one. The training programs below seek to provide runners with guidance in order to be prepared for the overall distance of the race while at the same time training to achieve fast times on each individual leg. Good luck and have fun!
Epic Oregon Relay
Epic Rocky Mountain Relay
Epic Cache-Teton Relay
Weightlifting Program
Runner's Basic Weightlifting Program
Take your team to the next level with Forza!
Contact Chris Sullivan at csullivan@forzadenver.com
- A free personal fitness assessment and workout session with Chris is available to all Epic Relay competitors
- Personal training discounts of 10% for all Epic Relay competitors
- Train as a team to take advantage of reduced group rates (minimum of 4 people)
- Forza membership discounts of up to 30% (contact John Tharpe at jtharpe@forzadenver.com)
- More info to come soon regarding Forza Running Groups
