Margaret believes, from experience, that sport is for everyone. She was a self-proclaimed “non-athlete” all her life, until a friend challenged her to run her first marathon in 2010. Margaret was a runner first, clocking 10 or so marathons before deciding it was time for a next-level challenge. 

Margaret dove into triathlon because she wanted to finish an Ironman. Why the Ironman distance? Because an Ironman “sounded impossible and impossible is awesome.” She started an instagram account for accountability, bought a used bike off of Craigslist, and in 6 months, she taught herself to swim 2.4 miles and to ride a bike, finishing Ironman Canada in 12 hours. She was hooked. 

What started as a challenge became an obsession. Since, she has been a top-10 age group athlete at IMWC 70.3 distance, finished 2 full Ironman distance races and has won her share of both triathlons and running races, qualifying for the Boston marathon after her second marathon (where she also met her now husband and business partner, Peter Denton). 

So, why coaching [we asked]? In her own words, Margaret self-proclaimed that, “I could never be a coach. I get too passionate and care too much about what I do to, y’know, ‘put up with’ (air quotes) athletes who aren’t committed to a coaching partnership.” So when the opportunity literally fell in her lap, coaching was an open door that she stepped into with some apprehension. She quickly found that as much as she was able to bring to the table, her athletes matched her passion for the sport, and not only did coaching allow her to inspire athletes on their journeys, but partnering with incredibly driven and dedicated people had had a profound impact on HER as an athlete and a person.

Margaret is a voracious learner, consuming podcasts, training courses and parsing data-driven methodologies to bring proven coaching practices to her athletes. She believes that writing training plans is about 20% of what she provides as a coach; the other 80% is partnering with her athletes to encourage life / training balance while still bringing out their best, helping to pivot training to life circumstances, and providing the motivation and tools to achieve their health and fitness goals. 

Outside of endurance sports, Margaret leads a supercharged life. When she’s not chasing around her active 4-year-old, she’s running not one, but two businesses from her home in sunny SW Florida. She is the Creative Director and owner of Denton Experience, a marketing and design agency. Her passion project is launching a coaching, clothing and lifestyle brand, Bomboom and its sister organization, Bombloom with the goal of bringing life transformation to everyday athletes through sport. In her “spare” (outside of work and training) time, she plays the piano, attends her church, refurbishes furniture, plays mommy & starts businesses.