Ruben Sança – Head Coach/Founder
Ruben Sança is an Olympian from Cabo Verde who competed at the 2012 London Olympic Games in the 5,000 meters. Ruben began his running career at the O’Bryant High School in Boston and graduated with personal bests of a 4:32 the mile and 10:09 two mile. He then attended UMass Lowell, where he became a 4-time All American and 3-time New England champion in distance running. At UMass Lowell, he lowered his personal bests to 4:07 in the mile and 8:41 equivalent for the 2 miles. Ruben attributes his running success to his relentless passion for the sport of running and the changes in coaching and training environments, which provided him with more opportunities and greater challenges [read more].
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Kevin Beck – Coach/Web Content Manager
Kevin Beck, a senior writer for Running Times Magazine for over a dozen years, competed sparingly in college, recording bests of 15:51 for 5K and 32:56 for 10K. Shortly after graduating from the University of Vermont in 1992, he made the marathon his event of long-term focus, running 2:39:37 in his initial attempt at the distance in 1994. Over a period of seven years, the New Hampshire native steadily carved his personal best down to 2:24:17 – good for seventh among Americans and 28th overall at the 2001 Boston Marathon. That his development as a runner occurred almost entirely on the roads as a post-collegiate athlete gives him a world of insight when it comes to advising motivated marathoners with relatively limited or non-existent high-school or NCAA running backgrounds [read more].
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Nate Jenkins – Coach/Marathon Performance Specialist
Nate Jenkins, who placed seventh at the 2008 Olympic Marathon Trials with a time of 2:14:56, is a native of Templeton, Mass., a small town on the far western outskirts of the Boston metropolitan area. He has spent his whole life in Massachusetts, graduating from Narragansett Junior-Senior High School and then obtaining his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. He now teaches middle-school math in Methuen, just down the Merrimack River from Lowell [read more].
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Fran Cusick – Coach
Fran Cusick is a USATF Level 1 certified track and field coach as well as a USTFCCCA strength and conditioning coach, and has a wealth of experience on the roads and the track. He currently works as a cross-country and track coach at Tewksbury Memorial High School in Massachusetts. He is also the director of the Stowe Running Camp, a highly successful and popular running camp held every summer in Stowe, Vermont. His coaching philosophy centers around patience and long-term aerobic development. His coaching influences include Jack Daniels, Arthur Lydiard, and Steve Magness. While Lowell Running is his first foray into coaching adult runners, his experience and expertise as a high-school and college coach combined with his success on the roads as a post-collegiate athlete give him a unique viewpoint from which to approach training [read more].
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Allie Whitelaw – Coach
Allie Whitelaw, a resident of Wellington, Florida, has been running consistently since 2006. As of May 2019, she has run 16 marathons (PR: 3:11, Miami Marathon, January 2019) along with numerous half-marathons and shorter races. Notably, she has succeeded in the challenge of running through a pregnancy, logging an injury-free marathon 16 weeks after giving birth to her son Colton in 2016. She has logged several years of running high mileage, also injury-free, having worked up to consistent 60- to 100-mile training weeks [read more].
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Daniel Selsky – Coach
Daniel Selsky is one of the most passionate coaches in our profession. In his 10 years of coaching, he has gained experience at the youth, middle-school, high-school, college and post-collegiate levels. He is a longtime runner himself, having taken up the activity and finishing high school with times of 1:58 for 800 meters and 4:28 for 1600 meters. He then went on to compete collegiately at Florida International University, where he also later coached. Coach Selsky also has experience coaching privately. He has coached middle-school-age students, where he has focused on general endurance and general speed. In addition to that, he has coached multiple adults who were preparing to compete in half-marathons and full marathons [read more].
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Lindsey Funch – Coach
Lindsey Funch, who resides in the historic running town of Eugene, Oregon, is a former sprinter and middle-distance runner specializing in the 400 and 800 meters as well as a collegiate field-hockey player at St. Lawrence University in Upstate New York. In 2010, Lindsey decided to turn her attention to long-distance running, and has never looked back.Lindsey has worked consistently to coach herself from a marathon personal best of 3:52 to a 3:08 while lowering her half-marathon time from 1:47 to 1:28. Along the way, she earned a master’s degree in exercise science at SUNY-Cortland, also in New York and the longtime home of noted exercise physiologist, author and coach Jack Daniels, Ph.D. [read more].
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About Lowell Running, LLC – Established in 2016 by Olympian Ruben Sança, Lowell Running Company, LLC ( ” LRC ” ) is comprised of a group of experienced coaches providing easily accessible, affordable and high quality training programs to individuals and groups specializing in road races. We use long established training methods coupled with data driven analytics from a variety of platforms to help our athletes achieve their goals. We are committed to understanding our athletes’ needs and providing goal-oriented training advice leading to life-long sustainable running. Lowell Running uses multidimensional training programs to bring the best out of each athlete. Our athletes are successful because we maximize our efforts in utilizing athlete focused, coach driven and science based approaches to training. Our dedicated coaches offer superior customer service and aim to create the most positive training environment for each athlete.