Coach
Lynsey Romano
Lynsey Romano is a competitive distance runner, professional run coach, and the founder of Skyline Run Coaching in Calgary, Alberta. Since founding Skyline in 2017, Lynsey has built her coaching practice around one clear mission: to raise the standard of recreational run coaching.
As an athlete, Lynsey brings firsthand experience from the front of the race. She is a sub 3 hour marathoner, 1:18 half marathoner, a mom, and has stood on podiums at major road races across Canada. Her own journey from recreational runner to elite level competitor, while balancing family, coaching, and the realities of everyday life, shapes the way she coaches. She blends high performance insight with a deep respect for each runner’s life, goals, and challenges.
Lynsey is the Head Coach of the 2026 Servus Calgary Marathon Women’s Training Program, one of Calgary’s most meaningful women’s running initiatives. In this role, she leads athletes through structured training, education, race preparation, and community centred coaching designed to help runners feel prepared, connected, and genuinely supported from the first week of training through race day.
Her coaching credentials include NCCP Trained Club Coach, RRCA Running Coach, TrainingPeaks Certified Coach, NASM Performance Enhancement Specialist, and RunDNA Gait Analyst. More importantly, Lynsey is genuinely committed to continued learning. She believes great coaching requires curiosity, humility, and constant growth, because runners deserve coaches who keep evolving, asking better questions, and refining their practice over time.
Lynsey is also a lululemon ambassador, a role that reflects her long standing connection to the Calgary running community and her commitment to helping more people find belonging through sport.
Beyond coaching athletes, Lynsey has mentored dozens of successful run coaches, helping them develop stronger coaching systems, improve athlete communication, and build more thoughtful, effective training practices. Her work through Skyline reflects her belief that great coaching is both art and science, grounded in knowledge, care, communication, and a genuine investment in the person behind the athlete.
Q & A
What is your best coaching advice?
Value consistency over immediate results. We need to structure training and develop athletes that can continually 'do the training so they can do the training' - stacking together incremental progress to produce big gains over time.
What is your coaching philosophy?
Essentially it all comes down to this: Start where you're at. Work the extremes, Bring it all together. Leave nothing behind. The work of Steve Magness heavily influences this philosophy.
What is the most rewarding aspect of coaching for you?
Beyond the results, what matters most to me are the relationships I build with my athletes. I care deeply about supporting runners as whole people, not just training plans or race goals. Helping them navigate training alongside work, family, stress, setbacks, and real life is the work I love most.
The trust my athletes place in me, and the community we build together, mean everything. That connection is the heart of why I coach.
What is your favourite funning mantra?
Relax and flow.
It's supposed to be hard.
Performance Highlights
5k 17:56
10k 36:57
Half Marathon 1:18:28
Marathon 2:59:21