ultra

running

coaching

Go Farther.

Whether you’re training for your first ultra, stepping up to a new distance, or chasing a race that’s been sitting on your list for years, The Yellow Post offers practical, individualized coaching built around getting you ready for the miles that matter.

Coaching is led by Matt Smith, an experienced ultrarunner with finishes and top results at races ranging from 100 miles to 200+ miles and multi-day mountain events.

What We Offer

Choose ongoing monthly coaching or a race-specific training block built around a particular event.

Training is designed around your experience, schedule, terrain, available training time, and race goals. The focus isn’t on following a generic plan—it’s on building the fitness, durability, and confidence you need to show up prepared.

Coaching includes:

  • Personalized weekly training plans

  • Bi-weekly athlete check-ins

  • Monthly training recaps

  • Training adjustments as needed

  • Race-specific preparation and strategy

  • Guidance on mileage, vert, long runs, strength, recovery, and race-day preparation

Base coaching starts at $150/month.

COACHING THAT FITS THE GOAL

FIRST ULTRA → NEXT DISTANCE

You don’t need to be an elite runner to work with a coach.

Maybe you’re trying to finish your first 50K. Maybe you’ve finished a 50-miler and want to know if you can run 100 miles. Maybe 100 isn’t far enough anymore.

We’ll start with where you are now and build toward where you want to go.

The goal is simple: get you to the start line prepared and give you the tools to keep moving when things get hard.

RACE-SPECIFIC TRAINING

Already have a race on the calendar?

Race-specific coaching blocks work backward from race day to build a training progression around the demands of your event—including distance, elevation, terrain, altitude, climate, cutoff times, and the realities of fitting training into the rest of your life.

From your first 50K to your first 100-miler and beyond, we’ll build the training around the actual race rather than forcing the race into a generic plan.

CUSTOM TRAINING CAMPS

Sometimes you need more than another long run.

Custom training camps can be built around your upcoming race and experience level, including high-volume weekends, mountain-specific training, night running, altitude exposure, technical terrain, nutrition testing, and back-to-back long days.

Camps can be hosted in Big Bear or designed around terrain that closely matches your goal race.

Available for individuals and small groups.

RACE CREWING & SUPPORT

For bigger goals, coaching can extend all the way to race day.

Custom race support and crewing packages are available for select events. Services can include pre-race planning, pacing and crew strategy, aid-station logistics, nutrition planning, gear preparation, and on-course crew support.

Because sometimes the training plan gets you to the start line—and having the right people around you gets you to the finish.

READY TO GO FARTHER?

Tell us what you’re training for, where you’re starting from, and what you want to accomplish.

Monthly coaching starts at $150/month. Race-specific blocks, custom training camps, and race crewing are quoted based on the athlete and event.

Let’s Work Together

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