Nate Reilly. That is me. I have been coaching since 1998 or so. It started when I was running with some other members of the Washington Running Club in Washington DC. One of the women asked if I would coach her. I said sure, and I have been coaching ever since.
Why did she ask me to coach her?? Well, I have been running since 1985 when I started in high school (now you know my age). I ran well enough in high school (4:25 mile and 9:30 2 mile) to make the team at William & Mary where I eventually ran 4:09 for the mile, 8:30 for 3000m and 31:15 for 10K. Nothing great but enough that I wanted to keep running after college. I had great coaches in high school and college so maybe that pushed me a little bit or maybe it was that I knew I did not have the talent to be as good as I wanted to be.
I started with just that one women but soon was coaching a group of 6-7 women from the club and things were going really well.
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