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Paulo A Silva (Summit Trail Coaching)

🇵🇹 Portuguese 🇬🇧 English 🇪🇸 Spanish

Endurance Coach | Road, Trail & Ultra Running

Hi, I’m Paulo Silva, founder and coach at Summit Trail Coaching (STC), based in Portugal. I help runners achieve their goals through individualised training, structured progression and continuous coaching support. Whether you’re preparing for your first race, stepping up to longer distances or looking to improve your performance, the approach is the same: Understand the athlete. Build the process. Adapt along the way.

My Coaching Philosophy

At Summit Trail Coaching, effective training goes beyond following a plan or chasing numbers. Every athlete has a different background, lifestyle, training history and set of goals. My approach combines endurance training principles, practical experience and data-informed analysis to make better decisions — always considering the athlete behind the metrics. The goal isn’t simply to train harder. It’s to train with purpose, progress consistently and arrive prepared.

What You Can Expect

  • Individualised training: Plans adapted to your experience, availability and objectives.
  • Purposeful progression: Aerobic development, strength, durability and race-specific preparation.
  • Training analysis: Monitoring workload, intensity, recovery and individual responses.
  • Continuous adjustments: Adapting training based on progress, fatigue, feedback and real-life demands.
  • Race preparation: Guidance on pacing, terrain, nutrition and race-day strategy.

Coaching and training analysis are supported by Intervals.icu, with regular feedback and personal communication.

Experience & Education

I’ve been running and racing in the mountains since 2014, gaining first-hand experience of the physical, mental and strategic challenges of endurance events. My coaching combines that practical experience with continued professional development:

  • UCAM — Universidad Católica de Murcia: Specialised training in Mountain Running Coaching.
  • TrainingPeaks Certified.
  • Academia Clínica Espregueira: Further education in Running and Trail Running.

I believe that good coaching requires continuous learning, critical thinking and the ability to turn knowledge into practical decisions.

Let’s Build Your Next Goal

From road running to mountain ultras, every athlete deserves a training process built around their own journey. Your goal. Our path. Remote coaching available worldwide. Languages: Portuguese | English

Find Me Online

Interested in working together? Get in touch and tell me about your next challenge.