About Keith
Keith has been an active runner all his life including recreational competition from sprints to marathons. He ran his first marathon in 1979 in San Francisco and, after not doing marathons for over 20 years, he trained in ChiRunning and is now marathoning again having recently completed the 2006 Boston marathon and the New York City marathon. Keith has also run in many Master's track and field competitions both nationally and internationally. Running has been a source of freedom, flow and personal challenge for Keith and it has also served as an effective conditioner for his participation in other sports such as ice hockey and tennis.
Keith has become an enthusiastic advocate for ChiRunning through his own experience and the comprehensive training he completed with Danny Dreyer leading to his certification as a ChiRunning Instructor. The integration of mind, body and spirit that comes with the holistic approach of ChiRunning fits well with the personal and professional evolution that he has gone through in his own life. His experience as a university professor, a licensed psychologist, president of the Running Psychologists, and a Life Coach make him uniquely qualified to teach and coach others in the new and powerful approach to running. Keith works with a variety of runners and running groups. He gains special satisfaction working with "re-entry runners", those who wish to become runners once again, and also with Masters age runners who want to improve their fitness level or even run competitively.
Walking is also integral to Keith's fitness and recreational life as he enjoys hiking and has been an active racewalker for over 20 years. ChiWalking has now become central to keith's professional work as he completed the inaugral ChiWalking Instructor training in 2005. He has already had great success assisitng walkers and "want-to-be" walkers in learning how to walk with ease and efficiency and how to use ChiWalking ideas and forms to enhance their lives overall. Keith has developed a specialty in working with older adults and those with prior physical limitations in his ChiWalking workshops and individual consultations. Within that context, Keith also serves as a Fitness Ambassador for the Lifelong Fitness Asociates organization.
Keith now lives in Eugene, Oregon ("Track Town, USA") where he is developing a ChiWalking and ChiRunning practice in the northwest. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Oregon Track Club Masters (OTCM) as Chair of the Road Races committee and teaches courses in Fitness Walking and Running at the University of Oregon.
Current Classes: contact drkeithcoach@msn.com to enroll or for further information.
CHIRUNNING
Introductory ChiRunning workshops (updated, 9/15/0808))
* Eugene, Oregon - Sunday, Nov. 9, 10 am - 2:15 pm, $115
* Portland (Lake Oswego), Oregon - TBA
:* Bend, Oregon - Sat. Nov. 15, 2008, 10 am - 2:15 pm, $115
* Corvallis, Oregon - TBA
Individual ChiRunning training sessions ($75/session ,1 hr).
CHIWALKING
Eugene - ongoing Fall group - Wednesdays, 6 - 7 pm, starts Oct.1, class fee $50 total.
Eugene - workshop, Sat. Nov. 8, 10 am - 2:15 pm, $115
Eugene - Marathon Training (Walking) Group - starts 1/4/09 for Eugene Marathon, May 3, 2009; $150 fee.
Individual ChiWalking sessions - ($75, 1 hr)
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