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Ergonomist and running coach · Lausanne

Set the course.I'll handlethe path.

A race, a date, or simply the urge to start. I guide you from sign-up all the way to the finish line, taking into account everything around it: your week, your work, your posture. Because what changes everything is having someone by your side.

20 races in 6 countriesMaster's degree in the ergonomics of physical activityAbout me ↓

Corto Benzoni racing the Panthéon 10K in Paris, bib 3956.
Panthéon 10K · Paris
Corto Benzoni, medal around his neck, at the finish of the Balexert 20K in Geneva, bib 3071.
Balexert 20K, Geneva · at the finish

About me

Corto
Benzoni

I walked the path before you, mistakes included. That is what allows me to guide you along yours.

I did not come to running as a champion. I came to it with fifteen years of combat sports, a job as an ergonomist, and the will to do things properly. Yet on my own, I made just about every mistake there is. That journey, step by step, is what I now put at your service.

  1. 15 years

    Combat sports

    High-level karate as a student-athlete: twice French university champion.

  2. Master's

    The ergonomics of physical activity

    Engineering and Ergonomics of Physical Activity, at Aix-Marseille University: understanding how the body copes with effort, at work as well as in training.

  3. 3 years

    Ergonomist in Switzerland

    Workstation design adviser in the cantons of Vaud, Fribourg and Valais, working with people who spend their days sitting, with no physical activity. That is where I started running.

  4. The mistakes

    Alone, then coached

    Too fast, too soon, no strength work: six months without running after my first race. The day I got a coach, everything changed.

  5. 20

    Twenty races, six countries

    From the 5K to the marathon, from Lausanne to Lisbon, by way of Paris and Barcelona.

  6. Today

    Horizon

    All that experience, at the service of yours. You set the course, I build the path with you.

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The observation

What changes everything
is having someone by your side.

In every sport, the people who improve have someone next to them: to say when to push, when to ease off, and when a pain deserves a stop.

In running, we think it is normal to go it alone. We download a plan, we hang on, and when it gets hard, we think it is our own fault.

It is almost never motivation that is missing, nor commitment. What is missing is an outside eye, and someone who keeps track with you between sign-up and the finish line.

Four situations come up almost every time. If you recognise yourself in them, you are not alone.

  • 01

    You sign up on a whim

    A photo, a friend, the urge to prove something to yourself. It is a wonderful reason to start. But the excitement of the first evening is not enough to carry you through twelve weeks, and that is nobody's fault.

  • 02

    There is no shortage of advice

    It is everywhere, and often right. But it speaks to everyone, and therefore to no one: none of it knows your week, your schedule or your history.

  • 03

    Nobody looks at where you are starting from

    Whole days spent sitting, no physical activity, an old injury, short nights: it all counts. A sedentary life does not show, yet we ask that same posture to absorb three runs a week, with no transition.

  • 04

    So you get injured, or you give up

    And you tell yourself you are not made for running. That is almost always wrong: it was not you, it was the path that was missing.

I lived it before offering it to youI ran alone, and I made those mistakes one by one. The day someone coached me, everything changed. That is what I want to spare you.

Horizon was born from that observation. On one side the training, on the other everything around it: work, posture, recovery. I look at both, with you.

How we start

Three steps
to get going.

  1. 1 From 1 December

    You tell me where you stand

    A few lines, and I reply with a page written just for you. Until then, leave me your email address: I will let you know when coaching opens.

  2. 2 One hour

    We meet

    The assessment, if you are preparing for a race. We start from your week.

  3. 3 Four weeks

    We move forward, block by block

    No long-term commitment: you decide at the end of each block.

What's next

Opening
on 1 December.

Coaching starts on 1 December 2026. Until then, there is nothing to book: leave me your email address, and I will write to you on opening day. No commitment.

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