Robert Pennino

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Producer, Coach, Dog Dad

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Join date: Jun 11, 2026

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Robert splits his time between two kinds of chaos. He's the founder of Terrier Fitness, a triathlon and endurance coaching business he's run for over 20 years, training athletes in Central Park, Sicily, Florida and via livestream, and leading experiential travel programs like the Cycle Across Sicily camps. He also hosts Roads Less Cycled, a POV cycling travel series filmed on the backroads of Sicily with his Jack Russell terrier, Bolt, riding shotgun (well, basket).

Alongside all that, he's a Line Producer, where big ideas, tight deadlines, and impossible logistics collide and somehow turn into commercials and music videos you actually want to watch. He's produced everything from high-profile campaigns to music videos, taking him from blowing up bridges in Florida to filming on aircraft carriers in California, acting as the human duct tape holding productions together and making sure the creative vision survives contact with reality.

Long hours, high pressure, and a lot of coffee later, there's nothing better than seeing the final cut, or the finish line, and knowing it all came together on purpose.

Posts (3)

Sep 12, 2026 ∙ 4 min

Sunday Riposo (a weekly series)

How Sicily Ruined My Ability to Complain Like a Normal American I was born in Pisa. My mother in Sicily. My father was born in NYC, but his father crossed the ocean from the Naples area. My dad ended up joining the Navy, met my mother while stationed in Italy, and brought all of us back to Tampa, where I grew up on the water with the kind of childhood I wouldn't trade for anything. Five years in Miami after college. Twenty plus years in New York City. And now I split my time between the USA...

Sep 7, 2026 ∙ 7 min

Heart Rate Zones Aren't Complicated, They're Just Ignored

Save this before your next training cycle. Most runners own a heart rate monitor and never actually use it. It sits on the wrist logging numbers nobody looks at until after the workout, when the data can't help you anymore. That's the real problem with heart rate training. It's not complicated. It's ignored. Here's the fix, and it's the same map we use on the Terrier Run Zone Chart set your TRP (Terrier Run Pace). FIND YOUR ZONES All you need is a simple test. Run one mile as hard as you can...

Sep 4, 2026 ∙ 2 min

You still 22?

We're Not 22 Anymore, and That's Actually OK