Volte Endurance

"You Will Decide On A Matter... It Shall Be Established For You... And Light Will Shine On Your Ways." JOB 22:28


It’s been quite a while since I’ve made a post on my blog. Facebook is quick, easy and fun and has effectively killed my blog for quite a while.

At this morning’s group long run Rich Cooper and I decided that it was time to fire our blogs up as we (and many other very, very good friends) start a new chapter in our lives.

Over the last few years my small Wednesday Night Track group has grown and this past October I formalized it into Volte Endurance Training. We are mostly runners but do have a growing Triathlon group with three finishers in the recent Ironman Texas. We have had many other successes from 5K to 50K and going forward I will document our journey on this blog.

Our name “Volte” is derived from the running equation, "VO2 (max) plus LT (lactate threshold) plus E (economy).

Our mission is to display Christian values, maintain high standards of excellence, promote integrity, respect the fundamental rights, dignity and worth of all participants, apply and make public our knowledge of sport in order to contribute to the community and encourage all individuals, training groups and clubs.

The goal in short is to have a smart program, have fun, and be a very good citizen in the community. Our priorities: Faith, Family, our Professional lives, and then sport (running/triathlon/etc) is fourth at best.

Over the first eight months we have been a program that has only coached on an individual basis but coming this July we’ll be adding group programs targeting 10 for Texas, Houston Marathon and Half Marathon and The Woodlands Marathon and Half Marathon. This will compliment what we are already doing on an individual basis.

Our “Individual” coaches Juliee Sparks, Adrienne Langelier & Traci Jackson are all first class.........

Traci Jackson, Juliee Sparks, Bill Dwyer, Adrienne Langelier





Rich Cooper





............as is Rich Cooper who will be leading the group training effort.  





Tammy Ninke



Allison Urvan









and........we’ll be adding a couple more coaches soon so stay tuned (a couple hints pictured....)

Our core group of athletes (runners from our original Wednesday night group) are amazing and are helping in many ways to make this program a reality. Since October we have added many new people who all have been equally awesome. In the coming weeks I’ll write about each member of our group.

Sorry…Coach Bill’s “Spotlight” is coming for everyone :)  

THANK-YOU EVERYONE for making all this possible.