Watch the video below to see how you can run a faster race, then apply for your running optimization call.
45 minutes with David to find out what is slowing you down.
Answer 7 quick questions. Takes about 45 seconds.
Just so we can send you some free resources.
The miles are going in. The time isn't coming down. Here's why.
Same paces for months. More miles stopped making you faster.
Nobody reads how last week went and changes what comes next.
Easy days too hard. Hard days too easy. No app flags it.
Adding volume on a template that never asked about your history.
I built this from further back than you're standing. Obese, pre-diabetic, unable to run one mile, up to a 1:13 half. If it built speed from there, it builds speed from where you are.
Current paces, mileage, injury history, and schedule, mapped honestly. Most runners are capped by one thing, and it is rarely effort.
Every session written for your body and rewritten weekly off what your last week actually did to you, not a fixed template.
Your fueling is programmed alongside the training, so your body can absorb the work instead of breaking down under it.
You talk to me, not a support ticket. Adjustments happen live as your schedule, your paces, and your body change.
"Your app gives everyone the same plan. I built mine from mile zero."
That's the system. It isn't theory, it's the exact one I ran on my own body. Here's what it did.
"I was obese, pre-diabetic, and incapable of running a single mile."
2020
2021
Same person, twelve months apart. Three years before my first race.
I got the weight off and kept it off. In early 2024 I ran for the first time in my life, zero background in the sport. Ten months later, a 1:19 half. Thirteen months after that, a 1:13.
Four years before that card, I could not run one mile.
Four things, rebuilt for you every week
Running and strength, rewritten every week around your paces and your recovery.
Programmed alongside the training, so your body absorbs it instead of stalling.
You text me. Not a support ticket, not an assistant coach.
The same accountability that carried me from mile zero to 1:13.
Founder, Roup Runs
I started out pre-diabetic and unable to run a single mile. In 2024, with zero running background, I started training. Eighteen months later I ran a 1:13 half.
I built Roup Runs because I kept watching the same story: a runner buys an app, gets the same block as everyone else, trains hard for months, and watches the clock sit still. I coach every runner 1:1, in English or Spanish, and rewrite the plan weekly off how your body is actually responding.
I'm not a dietitian or a life coach. I'm a runner who built my own speed from mile zero, and I hand you the system I wish I'd had.
Apps aren't nothing. They're just not built to find the one thing capping your time. Here's what changes when a person who's done it builds your plan instead.
The exact timeline, start to finish. No client testimonials yet, so here's the data on the one runner every claim on this page can be checked against: me.
Pre-diabetic, incapable of running a single mile
Weight off and kept off, still unable to run a mile
First half marathon, zero running background 10 months earlier
Sub-elite half marathon time, 18 months into running
Everything you're probably wondering before you book the call
Because you're not paying for a training plan, you're paying for the Mile Zero Method, the exact system that took me from unable to run a mile to a 1:13 half in 18 months, applied to your body and rewritten every week by me directly. An app gives thousands of people the same block with the pace changed. This is built around one runner: you. On the call we'll go through your situation and what makes sense for it.
You could, and you've probably already tried. That's the loop most runners are stuck in: buy the block, train hard for twelve weeks, run roughly the same time, buy the next block. An app has no one checking whether the plan is actually working for your body. The part you're paying for isn't the workout, it's a coach who reads your week and changes what comes next.
Plateaus are almost never an effort problem. They're a distribution problem: too much of your week run at one middling effort, so you're never recovered enough to go truly hard and never easy enough to absorb the work. Adding miles on top of that makes it worse. The fix is restructuring the week around what your body is actually doing, which is exactly what the weekly rewrite is for.
Yes, and I've run that exact line myself. The performance work stays the priority: we build your training around the time you're chasing, and the fueling that supports it takes the weight down as a byproduct. Your first weeks are paced to your body, not to an app's default schedule, which is where most injuries come from.
Fair question, and an honest answer: I'm early. What that means for you is you get my full, direct attention, the kind of weekly access and hands-on adjustment that gets harder to give once a program is at capacity. Every number on this page (the 1:19, the 1:13, the 18 months) is my own, and it's the same system I'll build with you.
Typically 45 minutes, direct with me. I'll go through your current times, your mileage, your injury history, and your schedule, tell you straight what's capping your time, and map out what your first weeks would look like. Bring your partner if that helps the decision. It's where we figure out whether this is the right fit.
Yes. I coach fully in English and Spanish, so your weekly plans, check-ins, and calls can run in whichever language you're most comfortable in.
If you're putting in the work and the clock isn't moving, and you want a plan built around your body instead of a template, apply below.
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