Kristyn R. Smith is a sub-3 hour marathoner and sub-80 minute half-marathoner, who has been invited to run in the sub-elite fields for The Woodlands Marathon, the Glass City Half, the Mesa Half, and the local competitive field for the NYC Marathon, where she finished in the Top 100 of women. Kristyn has won two half-marathons and one 10k and has a podium finish at every distance from the mile to the marathon. In her 13 total marathons completed she has run 9 Boston Qualifying times. 

Kristyn is a RRCA Level 1 certified Running Coach, an ACE certified Personal Trainer and a USATF certified official for track and field. In NYC, where Kristyn resides, she is on the coaching staff for The Dashing Whippets Run Club, a 1,000+ member team with multiple NYRR and BAA team championship titles.

Katie Carmona coaches half-marathoners and novice marathoners across the United States. She has run more than 20 marathons, including Boston, New York, Chicago, Marine Corps, Berlin, and London.

Katie has trained with Coach Paul Carmona since her first marathon in 2005. Since then, she has paced dozens of half-marathons while training for marathons year-round.

As a 4-time Boston Marathon finisher and former triathlete, Katie’s philosophy is to maximize training quality, not quantity. She usually runs lower weekly mileage but maintains consistency for success.

Kara Levy has served as a coach for multiple Boston training programs, for advanced marathon training programs, and for several half-marathon programs.

Kara is a 4-time Boston Marathon finisher, and a veteran of more than 25 marathons. Having trained with Coach Paul Carmona for 13 years, Kara has qualified for Boston multiple times, with an average finish more than 5 minutes under her BQ time.

Kara holds multiple certifications in fitness, wellness, and nutrition. She knows how to get healthy and stay healthy.

Caitlin got into coaching the hard way, after being unable to run for nearly four years and having to find a new physical and mental approach to running. Running is supposed to make us feel good, yet so often training becomes a source of stress, or gives us more reasons to feel bad about ourselves. As if we need that!

Caitlin has been through it all - periods of underperforming for fear of trying too hard, faltering under the precarious nature of success, crying through years of injury, seeking perfection in everything... you name it. As a Mental Training Coach, Caitlin works with runners to find more fulfillment, confidence, and humor in the running process. We all say that running is a mental sport, but how many of us really train mentally with the same intention that we train physically?

Intuition, courage, patience, confidence, humility, curiosity These mental skills are harder to develop than strong glutes. Learn more at TendAthletics.com. RunTrainRace clients receive 15% off any of Caitlin's mental training coaching, including her program The Runner's Mastermind - the first group coaching program all about mental training for runners.