About the Coaches:
Tammy Behrens is a Road Runners Club of America Cerified Coach and also holds her personal training certification through the YMCA. She has recently accepted a high school teaching and cross country coaching position at Homestead High School. With this change taking place, PR Training will be going through some changes as well.
Tammy has been coaching training classes for 8 years, has corporate training experience, and has 8 years of middle school and high school coaching experience. She holds a masters degree in Biology from Ball State University and was a collegiate cross cross country and track runner for The University of Indianapolis. Tammy is also a pioneer board member of the F4F Half Marathon.
Tammy has completed many local races since moving to Fort Wayne over 16 years ago. She has completed the Indianapolis Mini Marathon 13 times and has finished among the top 1% of women many times, with a best finish
of 39th woman overall. She placed 6th in her age group at the Philadelphia Half Marathon in 2007. She also completed the Boston Marathon in 2004 and 2007. In 2006, she ran the Chicago Marathon in a time of 3:23:39. This was a top 3% place of the female runners.
Tammy continues to make a postivie difference in runners and walkers lives in Fort Wayne. Many participants have achieved a PR 'personal record' in distances from the 5k to the marathon. She has added various levels of training to meet the growing needs of the groups runners and walkers.
To contact Tammy email prtraining@comcast.net.
"PR Training has been a huge blessing to my life the last 7 years. It is so incredible to share my passion of running to help others." -Tammy Behrens
PR Training can help you:
- Assess your physical condition and set appropriate goals
- Understand the importance of a training schedule, so that you will not become injured, stay motivated and reach your goals.
- Understand the nutrition involved in training for long periods of time
- Learn proper strength training technique
- Improve endurance
- Find motivation
- Improve your appearance
- Feel better
- Improve your health
- Reach your goals
Quotes from PR Training Participants:
"I wanted to give you a special thank you for the great job you do of training and encouraging people to run and to do their best. Without all your knowledge and words of wisdom, I probably would not have set a 1/2 marathon goal and now have completed 2 in one year! I especially love your quotes fo the week. They are very motivating! I have several posted around the house to keep me going." Karen Arnold
"It's people like Tammy that make it so much fun to train and compete. My running friends that I have become aquainted with this last year keep me coming back. Thanks to all of you!" Pam Wolfe
"Tammy and what she does for us as a group and individually is very much a part of all our successes. I can't thank her enough for all she has done to help me." Jim McKinnon
"I love to see people cross the finish line when they say I've never gone this far and never thought I could do it. What an emotional high. Now I know why Tammy loves what she does." Joe Astroski
"First of all, thanks for the coordination effort that you do every day to make sure that this group has an opportunity to train - and even run the events - together. It makes the training and the actual event much better. Secondly, thanks for helping me get through my injury this summer, refocusing my training schedule, and pushing me to just get to the point where I could run the marathon yesterday." Jason Sagan
