About Run For Performance

Run For Performance began with something Coach Steve kept seeing. On team after team, the fastest few athletes got the coach's attention while everyone else got a workout and little else. And when the season ended, most schools offered little in the way of off-season training, and what they did offer usually came with almost no guidance.

Those are the two gaps he founded Run For Performance to fill in Central Ohio in 2011: 1:1 coaching for athletes who need real individual attention, and small-group programs that give the off-season actual structure. Coaching built around the athlete rather than the depth chart.

Through those same years he served as Club Director and Head Coach of the Run Fit Running Club, working with adult road runners across the region. That is why adult coaching has been part of what we do since the beginning rather than something added on later.

Since then we have coached hundreds of athletes in person and hundreds more online, across the United States and abroad. In practice that has meant middle schoolers in their first season, high school athletes chasing district, regional, and state qualification, collegiate recruits who went on to Akron, Creighton, and Cincinnati, multi-sport athletes building speed for wrestling and football, and adult runners racing everything from a first 5K to 50K ultras.

Coach Doug Herron brought a second set of decades to the program. He is an Alaska Sports Hall of Fame inductee, a former Olympic Trials semifinalist, and an NCAA All-American who has coached at the high school and collegiate level since 1991.

For our middle school and high school Track and Cross Country athletes, we also run the RFP Elite Track and XC Club, a USA Track & Field member club, so athletes who want to compete beyond their school season have a way into sanctioned USATF and AAU events.