Why personalized coaching with ACCELERATE?
Are you ready to take your training to the next level?
Do you need accountability and structure to accomplish your goals?
Streamline the hard work you put into your training with ACCELERATE coaching.
Receive a detailed training plan that is specifically written for YOU - to fit your schedule and current fitness level.
ACCELERATE is for everyone who is preparing for a new event or race, returning from an injury, or just wants to optimize training.
ABOUT COACH
Heike McNEIL
I have been a fiercely competitive athlete for most of my life - willing to do just about anything to improve my athletic performance.
It was actually my academic journey and in depth studies of exercise physiology that led me to the realization that my body didn’t work and never has worked like that of others. I started to understand just how differently we all respond to different training loads - and I was absolutely fascinated!
When I took on building the Northwest Christian University’s Cross Country and Distance Track programs from scratch in 2006, I worked hard to try to understand each athlete’s physiology and coached them accordingly. I developed Northwest Christian (now Bushnell University) into one of the premier distance running programs in the NAIA. My teams were consistently ranked in the top-25 nationally and from 2011 to 2018 at least one gender qualified for seven straight NAIA National Championships. My women’s team won the 2015 NAIA National Championship.
Heike’s Experience
Coaching Experience
2014, 2015, 2016 Cascade Collegiate Conference Coach of the Year
2015 NAIA Coach of the Year
2015 NAIA National Champions
3 Cascade Collegiate Conference Championships
11 Individual Conference Champions
59 All-Conference Athletes
30 All-Americans
64 NAIA Scholar Athletes
Big Timber Running Club Coach
Competitive Athletics
Cross Country & Track at Linfield College
Triathlon (Olympic & Half Ironman)
Track Master’s World Championships 1,500 & 5,000m
Trail and Mountainrunning
Mountainbiking
Teaching and Research
PhD (Chemistry) University of Oregon
Chair of Bushnell University Kinesiology Department
Biochemistry
Exercise Physiology
Sport Nutrition
Biomechanics of Musculoskeletal Injury
Backpacking & Survival
Project Dasein