Lorraine winning the prestigious Osaka Ladies Marathon in 1986. She won again in snowy conditions in 1989, ahead of Australia’s 1988 Olympic silver medalist, Lisa Martin.
Lorraine Moller, MBE, Olympic marathon bronze medal 1992
President, Lydiard Foundation
Whether on the track, over cross-country, or on the road, Lorraine Moller has been one of New Zealand’s all-time great female athletes.Lorraine Moller is a four-time Olympian for New Zealand (1984, 1988, 1992, 1996) who earned the bronze medal in the marathon (2:33:59) in the 1992 Games in Barcelona. She won nine marathons in her career (including the 1984 Boston Marathon) and owns a personal best of 2:28:17. After having become a confirmed marathoner, Lorraine switched down in distances to win Commonwealth Games medals on the track in 1982 over 1500m and 3000m, and set a New Zealand Women’s 1500m record of 4m10.35s in 1985, the year after she finished 5th in the inaugural Olympic marathon for women in 1984. Lorraine has been the holder of the NZ 800m record for Women Under 20 for 47 years, having run 5th in the Commonwealth Games 800m final in 1974 in 2m 3.6s, and finished 5th in the World Women’s Cross Country Championships in 1975, while still under 20 years old. In recent years, she has worked to maintain the legacy and training principles of legendary New Zealand running coach Arthur Lydiard as the co-founder and president of the Lydiard Foundation.
Our Distinguished Advisory Board
Greg McMillan
Greg McMillan is a runner, exercise scientist and coach with the unique ability to combine the science of endurance performance with the art of real-world coaching. He has coached Olympians, National Champions, Boston Marathon qualifiers as well as new runners through charity marathon groups.
Greg received his masters degree in Exercise Physiology with a research focus on the determining factors of distance running performance. A student of the sport since high school, Greg continues to apply advances in sports science to his coaching programs. He vigorously studies the great books on running and is dedicated to learning from athletes and the outstanding coaches of yesterday and today. Greg accompanied Arthur Lydiard on his final tour in the U.S.
Rod Dixon
Rod Dixon is a former New Zealand middle- to long-distance runner. Rod first represented New Zealand at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich earning a Bronze medal in the 1500 meters. At the 1974 British Commonwealth Games in Christchurch he finished fourth in the 1500 meters; his time of 3:33.9 was the fifth fastest ever run at the time. He was ranked first in the world for the 5000 meters in 1975 by Track & Field News magazine. Rod won the New York City Marathon in 1983 and achieved a top 10 finish at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
Since retiring from competitive running, Rod has devoted the past 20 years to getting children running to invigorate their bodies and minds and improve their health and wellness. He founded Kidsmarathon which is in schools across the US, the Philippines and New Zealand. Rod’s inspiration was a visit from Sir Edmund Hillary at his Nelson, New Zealand school in 1960. Sir Edmund told the kids “Mount Everest isn’t high enough for your goals, dreams and aspirations”. After winning an Olympic medal, Sir Edmund asked Rod to promise him that he’d inspire the next generation. This promise lives on with Rod’s Kidsmarathon program.
Colin Lancaster
Colin Lancaster was a National standard athlete in the 1980’s in the UK and trained with Steve Ovett in Brighton and Peter Elliot in Leeds, being advised by Wilf Paish. He has competed in events from 800 meters to Ultra-running distances. Colin is now a professional coach using Lydiard principles with runners of all abilities. With over 35 years of experience, he enjoys coaching athletes of all ages and all distances. Colin has also tutored English and Welsh Athletics coaching courses for ten years.
Colin has been supporting Lorraine Moller in her work with the Lydiard Foundation as a UK Lydiard Instructor since 2017. In 2018 he co-founded Chatty Sparkly Runners, which aims to promote the Lydiard Way among recreational runners.
Colin’s coaching philosophy states “Some coaches observe a little and say a lot. The best coaches observe a lot and say very little but what they say makes a big impact”.
Dr. Mark Cucuzzella
Dr. Mark Cucuzzella has been a competitive runner for more than 35 years with more than 100 marathon and ultramarathon finishes. He has won the Air Force Marathon twice, is the race director of Freedom’s Run race series in West Virginia and the Director of the Natural Running Center, an education portal designed to teach healthier running. Mark continues to compete as a national-level Masters runner.
Mark is an Air Force Reserve Lt. Col. and is a Professor at West Virginia University School of Medicine. He is designing programs to promote healthier and better running in the military with the USAF Efficient Running Project. Mark has presented running workshops on over 50 military bases in the last 10 years and continues to teach through HealthFitU.
Mark is also the owner of Two Rivers Treads - A Center for Natural Running and Walking in his hometown of Ranson, West Virginia.
Dr. Keith Livingstone
Dr. Keith Livingstone was born in Kenya in 1958 and his family emigrated to New Zealand in 1965. They lived in the suburb of Owairaka, Auckland just a few hundred meters from Arthur Lydiard’s home. Keith and his twin brother, Colin, joined the Owairaka Athletic and Harrier Club, founded by Arthur Lydiard, and both later represented Auckland in national competitions. At 17, Keith was coached by the family grocer who happened to be Olympic marathon medalist Barry Magee. Keith won an under 18, 3000m event in bare feet in record time achieving his first championship.
In 1982 Keith moved to Australia to study chiropractic in Melbourne. For seven years while he was a full-time student and part-time fitness instructor, and then later a full-time anatomy tutor, Keith was a regular in Glenhuntly Athletics Club’s state championship teams over cross-country, road, and track.
At RMIT University he had access to some of the best educational facilities in Australia in sports science, biomechanics, anatomy, and physiology. To complement his chiropractic practice, Keith maintained his interest in running and training which led to the publication of his popular Lydiard training physiology book, Healthy Intelligent Training.
John Elliot
John Elliott is a long-time friend and supporter to Lydiard Foundation and a keen contributor to the worldwide running community. Born and raised in New York, John graduated from Dartmouth College in math and computer science, and became a teacher at Deerfield Academy for a few years before pursuing a masters degree in Business at the University of Chicago. Combining business with his love of running, John founded MarathonGuide.com and Web-marketing Associates in 2000 as a resource for both runners and races throughout the USA. John has been a supporter and generous sponsor to many an aspiring athlete throughout the past decades.
A keen recreational runner himself, John has made Boulder, Colorado his home of choice for the past 9 years.
A Tribute to Our Past Board Members
Dr. David Martin
Lydiard Foundation pays special tribute to our long-term board member and supporter Dr. David Martin. Dave was a respected professor and scholar of physiology at Georgia State University in Atlanta. He specialized in lung, cardiovascular and motor physiology, and applied this knowledge to his running studies.
He excelled as a statistician, historian, archivist, writer, race and television announcer, coach, team leader, and visionary—with a unique talent in applying his expertise to enhance the performance of many Olympic runners.
Dr. Martin was a keynote speaker at the launch of the Lydiard Foundation in Boulder 2006. His presentation spoke to the benefits of Lydiard™ Training and how it was consistent with the methods of Peter Coe, father and coach of double Gold Medalist Sebastian Coe. Dr. Martin and Peter Coe co-authored the book “Better Training for Distance Runners”.
David passed away on February 28, 2018 in Atlanta. We will always deeply appreciate his generous contributions to our vision, and miss him greatly.
Bill Roe
The Lydiard Foundation pays tribute to Bill Roe who provided valuable contributions to the board up until his death in March of 2020. Distinguished in his service to athletics, Bill brought decades of experience to the sport. Bill was innovative in distance running on many fronts: as founder, administrator, coach, race-director, team leader, designer, publisher, and long-time Lydiard™ advocate.
A Seattle native and Bellingham resident, this life-long Washingtonian was the MarathonFoto/Road Race Management Lifetime Achievement Award winner for 2017. This award is given to those who make significant contributions to the sport of long-distance road running over the course of a lifetime. Bill has participated as a coach, manager, team leader, and mission chief for more than 40 USA international teams since 1977, including nine world cross country championships. He was the USA Track & Field President from 2000 - 2008.
Sir Peter Snell
The Lydiard Foundation was incredibly honored to have Sir Peter Snell on our Board of Directors until his death in December of 2019. No individual could have better represented the efficacy of the Lydiard™ system. This triple Gold Medalist with multiple PhD’s was acknowledged as New Zealand’s greatest athlete in 2000 when he was voted “New Zealand Athlete of the 20th Century”.
Track & Field News declared Sir Peter to be the athlete of the decade in the 1960’s. His three Olympic Gold Medals, two Commonwealth Games Golds, enduring world records from 800 meters to the mile, and undisputed world domination in middle distances from 1960-1964, speaks to an exemplary athletic career. Peter Snell (along with Murray Halberg and others) were protégés of master coach Arthur Lydiard and ignited the world stage, truly defining the golden era of distance running for New Zealand.