Gunnison Valley Ultra Endurance
Gunnison Valley Ultra Endurance is personalized coaching for trail runners and ultra athletes who want a plan built around their life, not the other way around. Whether you're training for your first 50K or chasing a finish at the CB Ultra, every plan is built one on one, based on your schedule, your terrain, and your goals.
As a former Division I runner and an active ultra athlete based right here in the Gunnison Valley, I bring both the science and the lived experience of training at altitude, on technical terrain, and through a full mountain season. This isn't a generic training plan pulled off a template. It's coaching built around you.
Choose Your Level of Support
Not every athlete needs an ongoing coaching relationship, and that's exactly what this is for. After a free 30-minute discovery call to talk through your goals and racing history, you'll fill out a full running and health intake, injuries, training history, the details that actually shape a plan. From there, Dr. Wes builds you a fully custom 16+ week training plan, blending Doctor of Chiropractic movement and injury expertise with UESCA-certified ultra coaching, not just a generic mileage template. Once it's ready, we'll schedule a 45-minute consult to walk through the plan together and answer every question. After you've had time to review it, we'll make a final revision before sending you out the door ready to train.
16-week program (+$35 for each additional 3-week block on the initial plan*)
Delivered as a fully custom training plan you can reference anytime
Includes a 30-minute follow-up visit at 4 weeks to fine-tune as training gets underway
*Additional blocks must be added to a base plan. On completion of a plan, a new base plan is required.
For athletes who want a real coaching relationship, not a one-and-done plan. We start with a free discovery call and full intake, but from there your training keeps evolving with you every step of the way. Every two weeks we check in on how training's landing and adjust load and volume, and you can text or email between check-ins whenever something comes up, race strategy, a nagging niggle, a change in your schedule. Because your coach is also a Doctor of Chiropractic, injury and movement concerns get addressed directly instead of getting routed somewhere else.
Free 30-minute discovery call and full intake to start
Biweekly training check-ins with an evolving, personalized plan
Ongoing texting/emailing between check-ins
100% remote, work with your coach from anywhere
Everything in Tier 1, plus hands-on care. Once a month, you'll come into the clinic for a hands-on treatment session with Dr. Wes, so the physical side of training, tight hips, nagging soreness, movement compensations, gets addressed before it turns into missed training days. It's the closest thing to having a coach and a sports medicine provider working from the same page, because they're the same person.
Everything included in Tier 1
One in-person hands-on treatment session per month at the clinic
Best fit for local athletes who want coaching and manual therapy working together
How This Coaching Works
Training is organized into purposeful phases: a VO2 max block to build speed and aerobic power, a lactate threshold block to raise your sustainable pace, and an endurance block to build the durability you need for race day. Each block builds on the last, moving from general fitness toward race specific readiness.
Built in Blocks
No two athletes get the same plan. Your training reflects your current fitness, your work and life schedule, your injury history, and the specific demands of your goal race, whether that's a technical mountain 50K or a long road to your first ultra.
Individualized, Not Generic
Fueling That Actually Works on the Trail
You won't be handed a dashboard full of numbers to interpret. Each week, you'll share how you're feeling and how training is landing, and that feedback shapes your plan going forward, with updates every two weeks based on your progress. The focus stays where it belongs: on the running.
Running specific strength and mobility work is built into every plan, designed to address the actual demands of trail and ultra running and to keep recurring issues from derailing your training.
Strength and Mobility as Training, Not an Afterthought
Race day nutrition and hydration strategy is part of the plan, not an afterthought. You'll know what to eat, when, and how to practice it well before race day arrives.
Simple Tracking, Real Feedback
Meet Your Coach
Wes Rickman
Wes Rickman is a former Division I cross country runner and the owner of CB Movement Co, a sports chiropractic and rehabilitation practice in Crested Butte. He is a certified UESCA Ultrarunning Coach (trained through Jason Koop's coaching program) and an active trail and ultra runner.
Wes's running career started in Colorado, where he won state XC and track championships. That led to an athletic scholarship to Florida State University, where he competed in cross country, indoor track, and outdoor track, essentially year round with very little true off season, while also studying exercise physiology. Those years on the track and in the classroom taught him what it actually feels like to train through fatigue, to push when his legs had nothing left, and to know the difference between a body that needs to be pushed and a body that needs to rest. He learned to read those signals the hard way, often by getting them wrong first, and to back it up with the science of how the body actually adapts.
That combination, lived experience plus a real background in exercise physiology, is exactly what he brings to coaching now. As a clinician who works one on one with runners every day, his goal is to help athletes avoid the same hard lessons and setbacks he had to learn through trial and error, drawing on current research in nutrition, sports psychology, and musculoskeletal injury prevention so progress comes with fewer injuries and less guesswork.
Running has been a lifelong thread for Wes, and a big part of this coaching is helping it stay that way for the athletes he works with. Running has shaped his mental health, his relationships, and his ability to do the other things he loves: hunting in the Rocky Mountains, spending time with friends and family, and chasing his nieces around. He's also learned, over time, that running can't always be the only outlet, and he brings that perspective too, helping athletes build a relationship with running that supports their life rather than running their life.
Your Questions, Answered
Questions before signing up?
Reach out at (970) 235-0130, text is welcome during business hours or schedule a 30 minute free online consultation.
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Tier 1 is available to athletes anywhere, training and communication happen remotely.
Tier 2 (Full Send) includes monthly in person manual therapy and is only available to local athletes.
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You'll get your full training plan up front, built around your goals, schedule, and current fitness. We will have an initial 45-minute walkthrough when the plan is delivered, then the 2-week follow-up. From there, the plan is reviewed and updated every two weeks based on how training is going. Progress is tracked weekly through a shared Google Sheet, where you'll log how you're feeling and how you're responding to the work, no need to track or interpret pace, heart rate, or other data yourself. Keeping things simple on your end is intentional: this is about the running, not the numbers.
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Your plan will adjust around it. Tier 2 athletes also have direct access to in person assessment and manual therapy to address issues early.
For remote athletes, injuries and nagging issues are addressed through telehealth check ins, with referral to a trusted local provider when in person care is needed.
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Choose the tier that fits your situation and subscribe above. You'll receive an intake form to share your goals, training history, and schedule so your plan can be built around you from day one.