Coaches

Steen Rose, Head Coach

Steen has been competing in cycling and multisport events for 16 years and coaching for 8. His coaching blends his passion for sport, his extensive experience, and the most current information and technology to help athletes achieve their goals.

Steen is a 13-time State Champion and 3-time National medalist in cycling. He has climbed podium steps in the Caribbean and Europe. His background includes swimming, running, triathlon, mountain biking and cyclocross. Today he focuses on road racing and triathlons but still dabbles occasionally in mtb, cross, and track.

Steen graduated with honors from Texas State University with a degree in Communication, and can connect with athletes at all levels and ages. His monthly articles in The Racing Post are popular with beginners and experts alike. Steen is an Elite Coach with Joe Friel’s Training Bible Coaching.

Racing at an elite level while coaching and being married to a triathlete in grad school with a 60hr/week job, Steen understands the work-life-sport balance and how important it is for a training plan to fit an athlete’s life. His coaching philosophy is focused on balance and perspective and getting the most out of limited training time by making every workout count.

Rick Wetherald, Elite Coach

Rick is the rare natural athlete that can also coach at a high level. He has a natural curiosity about sport, and loves to know the answer. Rick has a degree in Exercise Physiology from Ft. Lewis in Durango, CO, and is currently earning a Doctor of Physical Therapy from Texas State University in San Marcos, TX.

While at Ft. Lewis, Rick started working for Colorado Premier Training, where he was an Elite Coach for 5 years. Living in an endurance sports mecca, working daily with coaches like Rick Crawford and spending hours in the CPT Wind Tunnel gave Rick a tremendous start to his coaching career. Additionally, his grasp of physiology and experience as an elite athlete make Rick amazingly knowledgeable.

Rick is a Cat 2 Road Racer, Pro Mountain Biker, and Elite Triathlete. His extensive race results are capped by a Silver Medal at the World 24Hr MTB Championships in 2004. Today you can find him leading the TMBRA Mtb series in Texas, mixing it up with the best of the best on the road, and continuing to develop as an iron-distance triathlete. He runs the TMBRA Kids Kup; a series that introduces kids 2-12 to the world of mountain bike racing.

Our Philosophy

Consistency is Key.
If you are consistent, you will improve. A steady stream of quality workouts is the fuel necessary for training to succeed.

Begin with the End in Mind.
Goals are the destination. The best goals are specific, measurable, and achievable. Thus, the first step in any plan is to define and clearly state the desired outcomes.

One Size Does Not Fit All.

We believe that the best training plan for you is not the same as for someone else. We don’t have an endurance bias, or an interval bias, and we don’t have all our athletes on a variation of the same plan. This makes our job much harder, and it’s tougher to explain. We wish we could tell you that intervals are best, give you two examples, and call it a day. That would be easy, but it would be wrong. The truth is messy and does not fit into nice categories.

Hard Work Does Not Equal Success (By Itself)

If hard work was all it took, everyone would be a lot faster. The truth is that everyone works hard, and more hard work is not the answer. Being smart about how you train is the answer. As athletes and coaches we know the combination that works. Believe me, you will work hard, but you will succeed because you work harder and smarter.