Duval Ruiz, Licensed Massage Therapist
State Of Texas
Duval specializes in sports massage working with many runners, cyclists and triathletes in the Greater Houston Texas area.  He also offers theurapuetic massages to relief the stress of everyday people's lives.

Duval is also a running and marathon coach with over 12 years of experience coaching marathoners.  He is co-founder of In Flight Running.  In Flight is a group marathon and half marathon training program based in Houston, Texas which prepares local runners for the Houston Marathon & Half Marathon and other fall and winter races nation-wide. 

Duval has learned from some of the best running coaches in Houston. He spent a few years under former Houston Harrier's coach James McClatchie which paid off by netting some overall male awards and age category awards for most road races he has participated in. His personal best for the 5K is a 16:15 and for the marathon a 2:41. He is a 5 time Boston Marathon participant. He started formally coaching runners in 1998 with the Arthritis Foundation Houston Chapter's marathon training program and fund raising effort, Joints In Motion. After coaching with that program for 4 years he teamed up with Michael Merlino to create In Flight Running in 2004.  In Flight has now grown to over 200 members coaching hundreds to the finish lines of local and national marathons.