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Magnum Opus Coaching Coach Nelle | Integrative Running Performance

Weaving speed, strength, & health for runners seeking peak performance and longevity.

Run | Strength | Health Coaching

Six months is a commitment, and that’s intentional.Integrative Run Coaching gives us the runway to build you thoughtfull...
09/18/2026

Six months is a commitment, and that’s intentional.

Integrative Run Coaching gives us the runway to build you thoughtfully instead of rushing you: progressing through the developmental phases you actually need, teaching the lessons that matter along the way, cross-checking your training with your health and life demands, and leaving enough room for the reality that even the most disciplined, perfectionistic runner has a messy life sometimes.

We build. We learn. We layer. We adapt.

And we definitely have time. Trust me: a longer runway with my integrative model has taken an exclusive 5k runner to Boston qualifier on her first try in 18 months, a novice ultra runner to a fierce, repeating podium finisher from 50k to 100 miles over two years, a med school student shaving 5 minutes off his already blazing fast marathon of 2:45 to 2:40 in 6 months, and a retiree returning to fire fighting academy and completing her fitness test faster than two years ago in what she describes “the most perfect run she could imagine” in 9 months.

If you’re ready for coaching that develops the whole athlete instead of rushing toward the next result:

Comment TIME and I’ll reach out to see how I can serve you.

As a female entrepreneur and athlete, I’m incredibly proud to have built something centered on what our bodies can do, n...
09/16/2026

As a female entrepreneur and athlete, I’m incredibly proud to have built something centered on what our bodies can do, not what they look like.

I’ve been reading the conversation around Sydney Sweeney, and I continue to evaluate the question underneath all the arguing about empowerment:

What are we teaching young women our culture actually values about them, and beyond that, to what lengths will we go to make a buck?

This isn’t about whether a woman is beautiful or about jealousy. And it isn’t about denying women agency over their own bodies.

It’s about being willing to examine a culture in which female sexuality remains extraordinarily profitable and asking whether profiting from that system and challenging that system are always the same thing.

As a woman building a business, I think about this a lot. I think about the dollars and integrity earned.

I could market myself differently. I could make my body part of what I’m selling. Instead, I’ve built a business around helping people discover what their bodies are capable of.

We help athletes run farther. Get stronger. Fuel themselves well. Come back from setbacks. Chase goals that scare them. Become curious about their bodies instead of critical of them.

I want more of that kind of female visibility.

Women owning businesses, coaching, competing, on starting lines, lifting heavy things, and discovering at 40, 50, 60 and beyond that their strongest years may not be behind them.

Women taking up space because of their ideas, their leadership, their talent, their resilience and their work.

I’ve also seen how difficult it can be for women to support one another: in small business, corporate spaces and even athlete to athlete. We talk a lot about supporting women, but I think part of that means creating room for thoughtful conversations about what empowerment actually looks like.

So here’s to the women building something from nothing and showing the next generation that a female body can be powerful without being presented for consumption.

To the women showing others not simply what their bodies look like…

but what they can do.

We are eloping today!There are people who know your story, and then there are people who have lived enough of it beside ...
09/09/2026

We are eloping today!

There are people who know your story, and then there are people who have lived enough of it beside you to know the person underneath all of it.

Corey knows me that way.

He knows my tenderness and my intensity, my big dreams and my fears, my need for adventure and my need to feel safe. And he loves me in a way that makes room for all of it.

It feels sacred about arriving here with so much life behind us and so much still ahead.

So today, on the Mangart Saddle in Slovenia, I get to marry my best friend, my adventure partner, and the person I want beside me for all of it.

“Oh no. Is this it? Have I reached the point where my best days are behind me?”I hear some version of this from my 30+ a...
09/07/2026

“Oh no. Is this it? Have I reached the point where my best days are behind me?”

I hear some version of this from my 30+ athletes all the time.

And then there’s Stephanie.

At 59 years old, she was the oldest participant at The Ring: a treacherous, technical loop through the Massanutten Mountains.

She ran it 24 minutes faster than she did in 2018.

And this came just months after running a HUGE personal best at the Vermont 100.

We aren’t accomplishing this by desperately piling on mileage because the clock is ticking.

We’re doing the opposite.

We’re focusing on fueling. Strength training. Stress management. Recovery. And being incredibly intentional about how hard her training runs actually are.

The goal isn’t to see how much training Stephanie can survive.

We to build a body that can absorb the work, stay healthy, and produce power when she actually needs it.

Yes, physiology changes as we age.

But the fear that you hit your 30s or 40s and your best running inevitably starts disappearing?

That’s far too simple and frankly a very depressing way to live your life.

There may still be enormous room between the athlete you are today and the athlete you’re capable of becoming.

✨Stephanie is 59.

And she’s still getting better.✨

You don’t need to build your entire life around running to find out how good you can get.The Magnum Opus team took on th...
09/05/2026

You don’t need to build your entire life around running to find out how good you can get.

The Magnum Opus team took on the today, and for the third year in a row, we landed on the team podium. 🏆

There were age-group awards across the team, on a warm, humid morning when many of our athletes are carrying accumulated training fatigue.

But what I’m most proud of is WHO stood on that starting line.

Our team ranged from 8 to 72 years old.

Three generations of women in ONE family. New mothers. Moms coordinating training around kids’ schedules. Trail runners testing their legs on the roads. Athletes rebuilding. Athletes recovering. Athletes in the middle of big training blocks. And athletes building toward what could be their strongest season yet.

Some came to compete.
Others came to practice being brave.
Many are chasing big PRs months from now and needed to race today mindful of those goals.

All of them belong!

Being an ambitious runner doesn’t have to mean obsessing over every mile, sacrificing the rest of your life, or proving your fitness every time you lace up.

It’s more important to learn how to stand on the starting line, practice race strategies, and apply mindset strategies when doubt tries to win.

It’s SO important to do hard things especially when conditions aren’t perfect.

That teaches you how to become increasingly fearless about racing and more curious of discovering what you’re actually capable of.

This who makes up the Magnum Opus Web.

We have serious goals, full lives, a team culture that is both compassionate and also hungry to find out what’s possible.

The best is yet to come! 🧚‍♀️✨

Sometimes the hardest thing I ask of an ambitious athlete to do is less.Katie came to me with no shortage of work ethic....
09/02/2026

Sometimes the hardest thing I ask of an ambitious athlete to do is less.

Katie came to me with no shortage of work ethic.

She’d done bodybuilding. Long-distance running. HYROX. Ironman training. She knew how to push herself, and she was more than willing to do it.

What she didn’t need was another coach giving her more things to accomplish.

She needed someone willing to look at the whole picture and ask:

What does your body actually have the capacity to adapt to right now?

Over the last year, we’ve built more structure around her training while intentionally removing some of the extra activity she thought she needed. Considering what her Garmin metrics are saying about her habits, noting health symptoms that have become patterns, and learning to trust that while less isn’t more, it’s actually better… in so many ways.

Just yesterday, she sent me a reflection that had me teary-eyed.

“Following your plan and DOING LESS than what I used to has made my body respond in the most positive and loving way.”

That’s the work.

Not seeing how much training we can cram into a week.

Not handing an ambitious person an ambitious-looking plan.

Not confusing exhaustion with effectiveness.

It’s figuring out the right dose of running, strength, intensity, recovery, nutrition and life stress for the actual human being in front of me, and adjusting it as that person changes.

Katie still has big goals. She talks about becoming competitive in ultras down the road.

But after nearly a year together, one of the biggest things she’s gained aside from her fitness is confidence in her body.

A confidence that she doesn’t have to constantly prove how badly she wants something by doing more.

You can be deeply ambitious without constantly asking more of yourself.

Sometimes the path to finding out how good you can get starts with finally giving your body enough room to recover.

I’m really happy for Katie and honored to be a part of her journey.

“I want to like myself at the end.”Rachel Entrekin set this non-performance goal before UTMB, a 108 mile race around Mon...
08/31/2026

“I want to like myself at the end.”

Rachel Entrekin set this non-performance goal before UTMB, a 108 mile race around Mont Blanc where she ultimately finished 2nd.

Not a pace or a place.

You can want a running goal SO badly that somewhere along the way, the goal stops being something you’re pursuing and starts becoming a measure of who you are.

Your kid gets sick and you miss Tuesday’s intervals and instead of accepting one missed workout, you’re calculating where to squeeze them back in because you’re losing fitness.

Your plan says 8:00 pace should feel controlled, but today it’s 8:17. Instead of considering heat, sleep, stress or accumulated fatigue, you decide something is wrong with your fitness.

Your training partner runs 18:52 and you run 19:14 … you were proud of your race until you saw hers.

Someone training for the same race posts 22 miles on Strava while your coach prescribed 17 becomes “Am I doing enough?”

You nail only 5 of 6 reps so you spend the cooldown obsessing over the one you missed.

You feel a ni**le 3 weeks before your goal race and instead of seeing a PT, you keep running because you’re more afraid of losing fitness than making the injury worse.

You come through halfway 90 seconds behind A-goal pace, but instead of competing for the best race still available to you, you decide the day is over.

You miss your goal by 90 seconds so before you’ve even processed the PR you DID run, you’re searching for another race to prove yourself.

This is the dark side of perfectionism in running.

The data stops being information you can respond to and becomes evidence you use to judge yourself, and eventually your relationship with yourself becomes conditional on your performance.

I don’t want athletes to stop caring about their results.

Chase Boston. Chase sub-3. Chase the podium. Chase the buckle. Find out how freaking good you can get.

But it also matters to me you’re secure enough that your ambition doesn’t consume you.

Stand on the starting line knowing exactly what you want and know you’ll still respect the person who crosses the finish line if the day doesn’t unfold according to plan.

Sometimes success IS the PR or podium.

Sometimes it’s adapting when Plan A disappears and discovering what else you’re capable of.

I wanted this with everything I had. I gave it everything I reasonably could. And I still like myself at the end.

That’s the athlete I’m interested in developing.

I didn’t become a better coach because training always worked perfectly for me.I became a better coach because for a lon...
08/30/2026

I didn’t become a better coach because training always worked perfectly for me.

I became a better coach because for a long time it didn’t.

Years of navigating Lyme disease, coinfections, treatment-resistant EBV, recovery, relapses, podiums, back-of-the-pack finishes, and big breakthroughs taught me something my certifications could only reinforce:

Training is scientific. But humans are not equations.

The goal isn’t to see how much training you can survive. It’s to find the training your body can absorb, and learn when to pull back, when to stay patient, and when it’s finally time to dig deeper.

That’s especially important for ambitious runners who tend toward perfectionism. You don’t need to care less about your goals. Trust me, I KNOW how hard it is to want a goal and feel it slipping away.

You need an approach that lets you chase them without losing your health, your life, or your love of running along the way.

If you’re chasing a big goal but feel like there are a lot of puzzle pieces between where you are and where you want to be, or maybe you’ve got all the pieces but they aren’t clicking together, I’d love to help you put them together just so.

Comment PUZZLE or send me a DM to talk about 1:1 integrative run coaching.

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