An expedition is a truly detailed endeavor. Every single aspect of an expedition needs to be planned and executed as close to perfect as is possible, because failure is never far away — and nor is failure an option for these athlete.

If you are an intrepid individual, this is a “no-holds-barred” approach to coaching (albeit less violent). You get everything in the Soloist option, but also get:

• One meet-up per quarter purchased where I travel to you (if travel is in the contiguous 48 of the U.S.A. I cover the flight, but any further afield and you cover the flight). Lodging is on you, either at your home or at a hotel. During your first visit we will run you through these tests:

  • Lactate test on bike, run, and swim ($897 value)

  • Sodium content test ($250 value)

  • Swim threshold test ($110 value)

  • Bike power profile testing ($330 value)

  • Swim video analysis ($250 value)

• I can also come to your A Priority race as one of your visits, where I will be your boots-on-the-ground coach and race sherpa. Travel stipulations are the same as above, but you foot the bill for my lodging.

• Weekly phone calls to make sure we have every detail covered, and more if you need them, any time of the week

• Unlimited email and text

• EVERY workout analyzed and responded to, regardless of if you commented on it or not

• 50% off our Flagship Bend Camp and one yearly Swim Camp

Chris’ flagship offering: a fully-personalized, high-touch, elite coaching program. You will get the consideration that a professional athlete gets, because your races are just as important as their races. What does this look like?

• Twice-monthly 45-minute phone calls to talk through your questions, debrief races, go over key workouts, strategize about nutrition, stress, and recovery — anything and everything!

• Unlimited email and text contact (slightly limited on weekends)

• “If you leave a comment, get a comment” policy for workout comments on our training app

• Fully flexible, customized training plan built to your life — if you need to change it, you simply drop me a text or an email or use the “Availability” feature in TrainingPeaks

• A custom race plan for every event

• Our tried-and-true “Personalized Training Roadmap” that outlines how we are going to get from where you are to where you want to go

• Chris’ coaching curriculum, training you to become a Whole Athlete, who can approach racing and training obstacles from a variety of angles, deploying many different types of solutions

• Regular, exclusive contact with a master coach who has experience teaching, counseling, and professional racing - a unique set of skills that will help you achieve the goals you want in the fastest amount of time possible.

The Soloist is available for multi-sport and single-sport coaching. Single-sport athletes get a small discount because the logistics are slightly similar, but you are still getting the expertise and mastery of my coaching, and what you’re paying for are results, not hours worked.

I understand this is a big commitment! If you’d like to have a free 45-minute conversation where I answer any questions you have about your training, so you can get a feel for what our calls would be like, you can book one of those free sessions here.

A lower-priced alternative to our flagship Soloist option. The Scout program opens every two months to a small (3-6 scouts) group coaching program. You can get a group together yourself with a target event in mind, or join a cohort that is targeting a 4-6 week peak that’s either 6 (sprint, Olympic), 9 (Olympic, 70.3), 12 (70.3, 140.6*), 18 (70.3, 140.6*), or 24 months (140.6*) from your start date.

• A transformative experience over 6, 9, 12, 18, or 24 months where you will achieve the goals you set out in your plan, provided they are realistic to where you are as an athlete.

• Weekly group coaching calls to go over assignments and curriculum Chris assigns to you. These calls are recorded in case you can’t make it, but it is expected that you keep up with and hand in your assignments by their due dates

• Weekly video drop-in office hours on a first-come, first-served basis, but I will always make sure you get the coaching you need that week

• My tried-and-true method that I use with my one-to-one athletes:

  • Your Personal Training Roadmap — this document maps out exactly how your time as a Scout will work, culminating in your successful performance

  • Integrating Training and Your Life

  • Mastering Effort and understanding how subjective and objective metrics work together, not in isolation

  • Refocusing Wasted Energy in all three sports (swim technique, bike pacing, run form, and proper lifting)

  • Learning to Train

  • Training to Train

  • Training to Race

  • Mastering Race Day and the physical, intellectual, and emotional challenges you will be prepared for

• A schedule that tracks alongside your colleagues, but is personalized to your life

• A robust curriculum that will prepare you physically, intellectually, and emotionally for the challenges ahead

• Strength training is included and will be taught

• Access to a community of other inspired and ambitious athletes

• Campfire brand bundle and swag

• Access to Campfire kits, sponsor deals, and discounts to our popular camps

• The confidence knowing you are in the hands of a coach with two decades of experience coaching, teaching, and racing at the highest level of endurance sports

If you have…lost a step, as they say, through the ravages of age, and you want to get back into your favorite sport OR dip your toes into the water of endurance sports, The Explorer level is for you.

As with all our other tiers of coaching, you get a plan personalized to your life, your weekly schedule, and your goals for the year. I have helped:

• An Ultimate Frisbee player become “the fittest guy on the team, and I can run for 45 minutes again!”

• A backcountry skier lose weight, solve his back pain, play effectively with his kids, and PR a four-leg multisport event on the Mad River in New Hampshire.

• An ACL-blown cyclist get back into shape and complete a 100-mile MTB race

• A 65 year-old basketball aficionado be able to run with competitors 20 years his junior

It doesn’t really matter what sport you play—if it involves your heart, lungs, and musculoskeletal system I have the expertise to help you. Explorers get a very particular program that is aimed at restoring mobility, ending chronic injury, and improving sport specific fitness and skills.

It’s our lowest cost offering because there isn’t any phone contact, and you get your plan in 4-week blocks. I give you guidance on how to move workouts around as your life happens, but once the plan is written I don’t rewrite it. Since you do get month blocks at a time, we will iterate the plan writing as we go along, and you get the same deeply involved onboarding process that will teach me how to best write your plan the first time.

You still get unlimited email contact and workout comments via TrainingPeaks, so we still remain in close contact during your time around the Campfire.

If you’re hungering to get back in the game, the Explorer tier is for you.

• Pricing is in line with all our coaching options, where we bill you every by the 12-week quarter, not by the month. This means your pay date can and will change during your time as a Scout!

• Explorer pricing is $34/week if you pay in full for the year ($1564 - a $356 savings!) or $40/week if you pay by the quarter ($480/quarter)

• Refunds are never provided, but remember that if you don’t achieve your goal you continue working with us for free until you do achieve your goal

Chris has done hundreds of video swim analyses, all based off of the Swim Smooth methodology developed by Paul Newsome. Our clients discover what limits their development in the water, making gains faster than simply slogging through thousands of yards. We meet you to capture the footage of you swimming and then take it away for analysis (alternatively, you can also capture your own footage and send it to us). We create a video that looks at every angle of your swim stroke, a list of drills to speak to your individual swimming needs, suggestions for improvement, and four workouts that you can do on your own. Want to see the final product? Check out one of our completed analyses here.

Lactate testing equips you with the knowledge of which intensities you should train at for the best outcome in the shortest time. How?

The test gives us two lactate thresholds, the first lactate turn, sometimes called “the aerobic threshold,” (which is a bit of a misnomer), and the second lactate turn, sometimes called “the anaerobic threshold” (also a misnomer). Despite the lack of effective titling, the concepts remain: the first lactate turn gives us the power or heart rate at which you will best build endurance abilities, and the second lactate turn gives us your threshold power or heart rate, the second most important training range for endurance athletes.

The test is a 90-minute session, during which you will warmup and then perform a ramp test. Your coach will take a blood sample at each step of the ramp, continuing until you can…no longer continue due to the intensity. After the test you will get a individualized report detailing:

• Your lactate profile (a graph)

• Your first and second lactate turn points, in wattage or heart rate or both (both is better!)

• Suggestions for your detailed training ranges to optimize your endurance training

You will need an indoor trainer, either smart or dumb. If you do not have one, you can tell us and we will bring one to your test.

The test involves taking blood samples with small lancets, test strips, and a lactate meter. The amount of blood is small, but your coach will be wearing gloves, and your fingers may be sore for a day or two.

Many training management apps, such as TrainingPeaks, do quite a bit of performance analysis, and they often do that analysis well. Sometimes, however, you and your coach may want to take a closer look at what you’re able to do on the bike, in order to make a plan so you can achieve even greater things. WKO5, which is a powerful piece of software, allows us to do exactly that.

WKO5 captures all of your training data and generates a power-duration curve of your historical performance. From 1” out to your longest ride, the software records your best efforts and then helps you build effective training prescriptions from your personal history. In a trained coach’s hands, WKO5 can provide helpful insights about an athlete’s current abilities and where they should focus for the best future improvement.

If you hire us for a cycling consultation using WKO5, you get:

• An initial phone call to run through your current WKO5 results

• A series of tests to perform to properly “feed the model”

• A second phone call to analyze the results of the test and to prescribe training interventions for the most efficient improvement

A cycling consultation is good for any kind of endurance athlete, provided their sport of choice involves a bicycle. If you’re a triathlete, you’ll learn about ways to improve your distant-specific endurance. If you’re a gravel cyclist, we’ll talk about how to improve fatigue resistance. If you’re a road racer, mountain biker, or cyclocross rider, we’ll cross-reference your abilities with the demands of your chosen event and target the improvements required for success.

Whoa! Big thanks to Campfire athlete Jenny G. in Bend for designing these stickers! Proclaim your love for your favorite coaching company in our new (and very shiny!) brand colors. These stickers are 2.5 inches across and will pop from any surface to which you stick them.

Give the gift of mastery! Campfire Gift Cards are available in several denominations, allowing your giftee to purchase some of our amazing soft goods, a swim analysis, a swim camp, a chunk of cash off our flagship Bend training camp, or even a month (or a year!) of coaching to see if they like it!