Dale Bondanza has been a FIT Assistant Coach for 3 years. Dale is a certified RRCA Level 1 Running Coach as of early 2018. Dale began running at the ripe age of 41. He has run hundreds of races of various distances and has been training consistently for 10 years. He started running because he committed to a lifestyle of diet and exercise after spending 20 years as a morbidly obese man. The result of his transformation resulted in his book called: 60 in 6: Everything Your Mother Told You to Do ("The Shock Jock of Modern Weight Loss") available via Amazon, Barnes & Noble's, and Dale's website.
By day, Dale is the Director of the Office of the CIO for the Broward County Public Schools. He has been in the Information Technology industry for over 30 years. Dale is originally from Buffalo New York, spent most of his life in Philadelphia Pennsylvania, and has lived in Florida for the last 10 years. He also spent 17 years as a volunteer firefighter and EMT in both New York and Pennsylvania.