Meet the Experts
Doug Stewart
Founder & Performance Director
Doug is the Founder and Performance Director of the Elite Trail Team, coaching all the athletes in the team and co-ordinating athlete support. He is a professional endurance coach, published author, consultant, researcher, and public speaker. He works with a mix of professional and non-professional athletes. He has coached runners to wins and multiple podiums in the UTMB World Series, including at the UTMB Mont Blanc, and to representing their countries in the World Trail and Mountain Running Championships and Skyrunning World Championships.
Doug received his MSc. in Performance Coaching from the University of Stirling. His research on relative energy deficiency in sport and the role of ultrarunning coaches was published in the International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching.
As of October 2022, Doug is a PhD candidate at Loughborough University in the UK, studying endurance performance and the athlete-coach relationship in a remote setting.
Doug’s coaching advice has been featured in UK and US running magazines and on TrainingPeaks’ blog.
