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Race Coaching
12, 16, or 20 weeks of personalized coaching
from your first workout to race day.
How Race Coaching Helps You Improve
Find what needs to improve
I review your training, race goal, and recent progress to identify what will make the biggest difference next.
Build training around you
I structure your training around your strengths, weaknesses, recovery, schedule, and race demands.
Adjust as you progress
I update your training based on your response, fitness, fatigue, and race-specific needs.
Athlete Results
The structure and guidance helped me execute a new marathon PR with a first place overall finish in 2:39:37 on a hilly course. Sandro’s scientific approach ensures that every run and workout has a purpose, arriving at the starting line fit, healthy, and fresh.
James Mount
United States
Sandro’s very well thought out coaching has assisted my running greatly, being able to fit my runs around the changing hours I work with my job. I am certain I would not have managed a 2:58 marathon PB at 45 years old without Sandro’s coaching.
Richard Leary
New Zealand
Sandro’s expertise and attention to detail has helped me improve more than I had thought possible. Through his online coaching, I broke my 20 year 5K PR by 21 seconds to 15:48 and I was able to break my half marathon PR by almost 4 minutes to 1:14:29.
Shai Birmaher
United States
Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialists® (CSCS®) are professionals who apply scientific knowledge to train athletes for the primary goal of improving athletic performance. They conduct sport-specific testing sessions, design and implement safe and effective strength training and conditioning programs and provide guidance regarding nutrition and injury prevention. Recognizing that their area of expertise is separate and distinct, CSCSs consult with and refer athletes to other professionals when appropriate.
Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (NSCA-CSCS), applying exercise science to competitive distance runners.
Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialists (CSCSs) are professionals who apply scientific knowledge to train athletes for the primary goal of improving athletic performance. They design and implement safe and effective strength training and conditioning programs.
Sandro Sket, CSCS
NSCA-Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist
I’ve been an endurance athlete since my teenage years, racing everything from the 400m to the marathon. I know what it takes to push through hard track sessions and demanding long runs.
As an NSCA Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist with 12 years of coaching experience, I work with dedicated runners who want more than just consistency. They want results.
My focus is simple: turn your training into performance.
If you’re already training hard but not progressing the way you should, I’ll help you identify what’s holding you back and rebuild your training so that every session moves you forward.
Sandro Sket, CSCS
NSCA-Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist
I’ve been an endurance athlete since my teenage years, racing everything from the 400m to the marathon. I know what it takes to push through hard track sessions and demanding long runs.
As an NSCA Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist with 12 years of coaching experience, I work with dedicated runners who want more than just consistency. They want results.
My focus is simple: turn your training into performance.
If you’re already training hard but not progressing the way you should, I’ll help you identify what’s holding you back and rebuild your training so that every session moves you forward.
How it Works
1. Choose your duration
Choose from 12-, 16-, and 20-week coaching plans until your race day.
2. Add me as your coach
Set up a free FinalSurge account and add me as your coach.
3. Train with expert guidance
Train with precision and confidence toward your race time goal.
12 Weeks
Race Coaching
$
399
/one-time
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Initial training assessment
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Custom training built for you
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Weekly coach check-ins
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Coach workout feedback
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Ongoing plan adjustments
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Race planning and strategy
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Direct email and text support
16 Weeks
Race Coaching
$
499
/one-time
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Initial training assessment
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Custom training built for you
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Weekly coach check-ins
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Coach workout feedback
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Ongoing plan adjustments
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Race planning and strategy
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Direct email and text support
20 Weeks
Race Coaching
$
599
/one-time
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Initial training assessment
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Custom training built for you
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Weekly coach check-ins
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Coach workout feedback
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Ongoing plan adjustments
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Race planning and strategy
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Direct email and text support
All coaching and communication is handled directly by me, Sandro Sket. I don’t outsource coaching or delegate athlete management to assistants. My approach is based on the belief that training decisions and performance oversight require direct involvement to maintain quality and consistency.
To ensure that level of attention, remote coaching is intentionally limited to a small number of athletes.
Serious About Your Next Breakthrough?
Who this is for
- Runners targeting qualification standards or time goals
- Runners who value structured, data-driven progression
- Runners who strategically train for a peak performance
- Runners who have outgrown generic training plans
Not for
- Runners who prefer unstructured or spontaneous training
- Runners unwilling to train consistently 4–7 days per week
- Runners who frequently skip sessions without adjustment
- Runners satisfied with generic AI-based programming