Valerie Spees

Specialties: Road Racing, Running (all distances), Triathlon, Century & Endurance riding, Swimming, General fitness

Home: Jacksonville, FL

Client levels accepted: Individual and Consultation

Available to take on all levels of athletes both racing and non-racing

Available for seminars, camps, clinics, and team direction on a contractual basis.

Valerie Spees is one of Wenzel Coaching’s most diverse coaches.  She’s been a competitive athlete in various sports for the past decade, as well as a credentialed exercise physiologist for the past seven years.  She’s located in Jacksonville, FL and is available to all those interested in running, road racing, and triathlon.

A star athlete throughout high school, Valerie found her niche when she joined the rowing team in college.  Rowing through graduate school, she became half of a lightweight double that went undefeated throughout the Midwest for two years.

With the retirement of her doubles partner in 2000, Valerie immersed herself in triathlon.  Having recently completed her graduate degree in exercise physiology, she found herself to be the perfect guinea pig to test out the various training theories she had just been taught.  She excelled regionally in sprint distance triathlon, while maintaining a full time job and pursuing personal training and exercise specialist certifications.  Her particular specialties include integration of strength training programs, recognition and prevention of overtraining, and injury prevention and rehab.

Throughout the past five years, Valerie has competed in many road races, time trials, triathlons, running events from 5k to half marathon, open water swimming competitions, as well as USMS swim meets.  She returned to school to pursue a Doctorate of Physical Therapy with particular focus on biomechanics of movement.  She and her husband Scott have two young children that can typically be found sprawled out in jogging strollers and bike trailers at local races on the weekends.

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