Danelle Ballengee “Coach Nellie” is 35 years old and lives part time in Dillon, Colorado and part time in Moab, Utah.  Danelle has been working as a Personal Fitness Trainer and Endurance-Specialist Coach since 1993.  She has a degree in Kinesiology and Biology from the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she graduated in 1994.
She started working as a personal trainer at Boulder’s Pulse Fitness Center, where she worked from 1993 through 1996.  She then moved to Summit County in 1996 where she began teaching fitness-based clinics.  She has taught clinics and camps on running, snowshoeing, cycling, triathlon and adventure racing.  From 1997 to the present she has been a personal trainer and endurance sport instructor at the Silverthorne Recreation Center.   Danelle is an A.C.E certified fitness instructor.  Each year she participates in continuing education courses to maintain her certification and keep updated on latest research and techniques. (See ACE –certified professional code of ethics.)
            In 1999 Danelle began putting more focus on her specialty—training for endurance events, and started coaching athletes using email to send weekly workouts.  Her workout programs are designed specific to each athlete-- to fit their schedule, fitness level and goals.   Her training website, www.trainingrx.com officially started in 2007. 
            Danelle has worked with folks of every level and ability.  She has helped overweight couch potatoes to get off the couch and get fit and healthy.  She has also worked with all ages and ability of athletes; including helping several athletes reach elite/professional status.  Her clients include trail, mountain, and ultra runners, adventure racers, mountain bikers, triathletes, Nordic skiers, snowshoers, and downhill skiers. (See client profiles/endorsements.)
            Danelle is also an accomplished athlete herself.  She is the ‘winningest’ endurance athlete in the world, having won several hundred events in various endurance sports.  Included in her wins are several National and World Championships in the sports of Skyrunning, Adventure Racing, Mountain Running, Rogaining, Snowshoeing, Winter Triathlon, Triathlon, and Duathlon.  (See her race resume/results.)  Coach Nellie has traveled around the world to participate in events and give presentations and clinics for her sponsors.  She started competing in high school cross-country and continues to compete to this day.
            In addition to coaching, personal training, and participating in endurance sports Danelle is an event coordinator.  Her business, I’m Crazy Events, have organized over 50 events since her first event, the Evergreen Triathlon and Duathlon in 1995.  In 1996 she organized the Colorado Multisport Festival, a four-race event.  She also organized the SkyFestival, a 6-race high-altitude event in 1997.  Danelle ‘re-started’ the Mt. Evans Ascent running race in 1997 and brought the X-Terra Triathlon to Keystone in 1999.  She also organized for six years the Swift Skedaddle Snowshoe races.  Additionally she has organized several off-road triathlons, duathlons and winter multi-sport events.  Currently she is taking a break form race directing.