Our Trainers

As a sports nutritionist focused on endurance athletes, Vic will help you achieve your best for fueling and hydration in training, daily life, and during races. Vic has helped numerous athletes achieve major breakthroughs, including elite athletes such as Rod Farvard and Seth Ruhling. Learn more about Vic and Mountain Sports Nutrition here.

Alyssa Godesky is a Vermont-based endurance athlete and coach. With 37 full-distance Ironmans under her belt, three Fastest Known Times (including the 48 4000-footers in the White Mountains!), and experience in other realms ranging from orienteering to adventure racing, Alyssa loves nothing more than helping others in the endurance community find their own FKTs and attain goals they didn’t think were possible. You can find out more about Alyssa at her website here.

Hilary is a local physical therapist and athlete. She works with runners from all over New England who are looking for guidance on improving running efficiency and strength as well as prevent and manage injury. She is an avid outdoor athlete and was a member of the US Ski Team for five years. Learn more about Hilary on her website.

Adah Chapman grew up in Moultonborough NH as an avid runner and skier, but she is currently based in Colorado studying Exercise and Sports Science at Western Colorado University. At Western she is on the Trail Running and Nordic Ski teams, but she also heads up to Crested Butte a few times a week to ski big mountain. She has been a runner and skier for as long as she can remember, but got more seriously into running around middle school when she signed up for her first trail race, and decided to tackle the 4000 footers before the age of 13. Her first ultra distance was in the White Mountains- a Pemi Loop at age 14. The next summer she was inspired to run an FKT, so she went after the Double Pemi to set a women’s time on the segment.

Adah knew that she wanted to continue to pursue running in college but felt that the NCAA route was not for her, so she was happy to find Western, where Trail Running could be her main sport. This past fall she ran the A-Basin Cirque Series, and a few 30ks, and then wrapped up the season at Moab Half Marathon where she was happy to place 2nd in the Collegiate National Trail Championships. She is looking forward to continuing her educational and athletic career at Western and upon graduation hopes to go into coaching and doing research surrounding endurance sports. Adah looks forward to our time together, and hopes we can all learn a lot! If you enjoy trail running podcasts, listen to Adah being interviewed for the Running is Magic pod (and give them a follow!). 

David is one of the best ultrarunners in the world and in 2024 was named the 3rd ranked ultrarunner in North America after breaking the course records on both the Speedgoat 50k and JFK 50 mile races. He has set numerous FKTs and is the only person known to have made it up to the summit of Mt. Washington from Pinkham Notch in under an hour. David was a highly ranked nordic athlete in college, then transitioned to marathons where he ran a PR of 2:16. He has transitioned to ultras recently and is spending the winters competing on the World Cup circuit for Skimo, with an eye on making the 2026 Winter Olympics.

As a native of Vermont who went to college in New Hampshire, David knows the rugged terrain of northern New England and has coached Nordic skiers and runners for many years. He is excited to help athletes of all levels achieve their best. Read Ultra Running Magazine’s write up on David and why he was ranked Number 3 for US Men’s Ultra Runner of the Year.

Eli Burakian is a UESCA certified Ultrarunning Coach, and has completed dozens of ultramarathons and fifteen 100-milers including the Grand Slam of Ultrarunning in 2024. He is passionate about FKTs (Fastest Known Times) and has a number to his name including an unsupported traverse of Iceland. Eli loves running and hiking in the northeast and is a guidebook author for Falcon Guides with titles such as Climbing New Hampshire’s 48 4000 Footers, Hiking the Waterfalls of New England and the forthcoming 101 Classic Hikes of the Northeast.

Eli is a professional photographer and spent eleven years as the Dartmouth College Photographer from 2011-2022. He also managed the Moosilauke Ravine Lodge for three years. As a busy father of two children, Eli is excited to share his belief that with consistent work and focused training anybody can achieve personal success as a trail and/or ultrarunner with a moderate time commitment that can easily work within a busy modern lifestyle. You can see some of his books here and visit his substack newsletter here and his podcast The Fastpacker.

Jim Anderson is the founder of the Endurance Drive team and co-host of the podcast The Endurance Drive. His endurance and racing background includes all triathlon distances, bike, run and adventure racing, and he volunteers with the Dartmouth Triathlon Club and runs a Hanover, NH based training squad for long distance triathlon & endurance athletes. He is all about a “person first, athlete second” coaching philosophy. Thoughtful, adaptive and appropriate coaching to meet each individual where they are now and where they want to go in the future. Through sport and our journey, we become a more authentic version of ourselves.

Jim knows the White Mountains intimately, having worked for the AMC for years and living spends his summers just a few miles from the retreat location.

Justin was born and raised in New Hampshire, and has spent much of his life exploring the White Mountains. Justin served as “Hut Croo” for the Appalachian Mountain Club’s backcountry huts in the late 1990s, and he has hiked a variety of long distance trails, including the Long Trail, The John Muir Trail, and the Teton Crest Trail and has completed numerous races ranging in distance up to 100 miles. Justin’s longer day efforts in the Whites includes multiple Presidential Range traverses, Pemi Loops, and in 2020 he completed his first Hut Traverse- a route he had had his eyes on since 1999. Learn how Justin’s daughter, Adah, bested him at Bubba’s Backyard Ultra when she was just sixteen years old.

Justin recently retired from a career in public education after teaching for 22 years at Sandwich Central School in the southern White Mountains. He recently started his own outdoor adventuring company, Adventure Squam, LLC. Justin has two children- a 20 year old son who lives in Los Angeles, CA and an 18 year old daughter who lives in Gunnison, Colorado. Justin enjoys all time in the mountains, regardless of the season, many water sports, and crewing mountain athletes in ultra races and other endurance efforts.