Justin Metzger

Trainer Justin Metzger is excited to bring his knowledge and experience of running and endurance training to his fellow athletes at Blackbird CrossFit, the Eldersburg Rogue Runners, and all who are interested in running with more efficient technique. His goal is to keep runners injury free for many years, while also helping them to run faster to achieve their goals. Justin’s journey as a coach took an unexpected turn in January of 2011. A group of teachers invited him to start doing CrossFit with them in the school gym, which completely changed his outlook on fitness and training. He learned the importance of technique, began to appreciate running as a skill, and realized more effective ways to train besides just volume. From that moment on, Justin has continued to learn as much as he can about CrossFit, the Pose Running Method, aerobic training, endurance training, and nutrition. 

Justin brings years of experience as a competitive endurance athlete himself. In his younger years, he competed on his high school and college Cross-Country and Track & Field Teams. He has since channeled his love of running into coaching others, as the Head Cross-Country and Head Track & Field Coach at Carroll Community College, since their program began in 2019. Prior to that he was the Head Boy’s Cross-Country Coach at Century High School from 2011 to 2016. 

Now, Justin coaches all athletes from middle-schoolers that are beginning their athletic journey, to adults that are looking to improve on what they have learned over the years. He looks forward to bringing his knowledge of running and endurance training to his fellow athletes as the only coach of Blackbird CrossFit’s PACER Program. Also, he works with Tri Sport Junction to design programming for the Sykesville/Eldersburg running and triathlon communities to help them achieve their goals of competing in all race distances from 5K’s to ultra-marathons.