ASICS GTC-ELITE Adds On Pace Wellness as Resource Partner

Wil Benitez of On Pace Wellness

ASICS Greenville Track Club-ELITE, the post-collegiate, Olympic-development program based in Greenville, SC, has announced a partnership with On Pace Wellness. On Pace Wellness is owned and operated by Wilfredo Benitez and is based in Portland, OR. OPW provides nutritional coaching for athletes looking to improve and/or optimize their nutritional resources. 

"We are excited to enlist Will and On Pace Wellness in our ongoing efforts to optimize the nutritional choices of our athletes," stated Director/Coach Mike Caldwell. "We believe that nutrition is a vital component in the training and competitive process for every athlete and especially for our athletes at their elite level." 

Benitez has post-graduate degrees (MsCN and M.Ed) and has provided nutritional coaching to multiple and varied professional and amateur athletes. He is also a USATF Certified Level 1 Coach. For more information regarding On Pace Wellness please visit: https://www.onpacewellness.com​.

In additional to On Pace Wellness ASICS GTC-ELITE's resource circle includes:

• ASICS for their world-class running footwear and apparel.
• Performance Therapy in Greenville for Active Release Therapy and soft tissue manipulation.
• Carolina Spine & Rehab for Chiropractic.
• ATI's Running Academy for Gait Analysis & Consultation.
• ElliptiGO for their unique stand-up bicycle.
• ​Cocoa Elite for Protein Recovery products.
• Final Surge for on-line training planning and recording for each athlete.
• The Williams Pace Calculator for determining training and racing paces.
• Roll Recovery for self muscle-manipulation.
• ​The DorsiFlex for lower-leg and foot stretching.
• Hyperice for their Normatec Recovery Boots.
• Stryd for recording power.
  
• MOBO Board for state-of-the-art kinetic-chain balance improvement. ​​

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GTC-ELITE was established in 2012. The program produced four qualifiers for the 2016 USA Olympic Trials Marathon in Los Angeles, one qualifier/participant for the 2019 Pam American Games Marathon in. Lima, Peru and three qualifiers/two participants for the 2020 USA Olympic Trials Marathon in Atlanta, GA.  The post-collegiate, Olympic development program is sponsored by ASICS, the 48-year-old Greenville Track Club, Joy Real Estate, the Borch Foundation, generous individual contributors and partnerships with Performance Therapy, Carolina Spine and Rehab, Roll Recovery products, FinalSurge (on-line training log), The ATI Running Academy, ElliptiGO, NormaTec Recovery Boots, Cocoa Elite recovery products, Stryd Running, Coach Bob Williams Pace Calculator, the DorsiFlex (stretching device), the MOBO board and On Pace Wellness (nutrition coaching).  The club is a proud and active member of both the Road Runners Club of America and  USATF.​