Training badass athletes to achieve extraordinary feats.

TRAIN HARD.. TRAIN SMART

Riding longer, harder and faster and enjoying the process as much as the outcome.

 TESTIMONIALS

TRAINING FOR BWR SAN DIEGO (strength session, skills session, consultation)

As a triathlete, I have been accustomed to a lifestyle of training and taking a scientific approach to race events. I am a newly initiated gravel cyclist and decided to try for my first gravel or “unroad” race, which just happens to have been the full distance BWR CA. I also threw at Chi a challenging training scenario, which is the BWR CA was less than 3 weeks after I would race Ironman Oceanside 70.3! I know, pretty crazy to try my first gravel race under such circumstances, but Coach Chi was just as zany as I was in taking up the task of coaching me under such circumstances!

I was impressed with Chi’s holistic approach to coaching. She addressed training from multiple angles that strengthened not only cycling by overall health. We started with an honest discussion about goal setting and objectives. Then we had a 1:1 session on mobility, total body strength training, coordination, and core—this was especially important for not only cycling off-road but overall health. We subsequently did a training ride together when we focused on riding skills specifically for gravel. We also set on an overall cycling training regimen that culminated in a set of Big-A$$ Rides, which were meant to simulate aspects of race day including equipment, nutrition, hydration, and race strategy, eg “burning matches”. The last part was important training and strategy, as so many gravel races start with a hard effort to sort racers into thin groups before single-tracks. In the days leading up to the race, we needed to coordinate the balance of tapering for IM Oceanside while building up for BWR CA, and I think the strategy worked out perfectly! I achieved a personal best for IM Oceanside and also did better than my expectations for BWR CA—8:45 for my first BWR is pretty good I think! What was even better than achieving my goal time for BWR is having achieved the loftier goal—to have prepared for the event sufficiently well that I actually ENJOYED the event rather than suffering through it, even through the very end as I climbed Double Peak with a smile on my face.

Chi was not only a terrific coach but also a cheering squad! Even when I raced the preceding IM Oceanside, she came out to see me and cheered me on at the run stage of the triathlon! And just as I was finished BWR, Chi was first to congratulate me and wanted to hear all the juicy bits about my day and ride. We also had a nice post-ride de-brief in the following days to talk about learnings from the race. In summary, Chi coached towards overall health and well-being, and worked to individualize and adapt to my unusual use case. She is a sensitive, full of thoughtful advice, and has very positive karma! I can whole-heartedly recommend her coaching with the highest level of enthusiasm.

Jae Kim

TRAINING FOR ROCK COBBLER (1:1 COACHING)

Being a middle aged father of four working multiple jobs with a new baby puts me into the category of “time crunched cyclist”. After my latest kid,  I literally thought my cycling days were done and I was so bummed. So I went looking for any help I could get.  Coach Chi started working with me and was able to build a program that was goal specific, fit my time constraints, and was flexible. Today I’m at my fittest on the bike and feeling good. She listens to what you are looking to attain and sets you up with a plan specific for you, not a cookie cutter/one size fits all deal. 

I was able to make more progress than I expected with my limited time by following a well thought out and strategic training plan. I look forward to tackling the local climbs and I’m certainly looking forward to making more gains. It’s a feat I didn’t think I could attain with my schedule.  Sometimes I only have as little as 4 hrs a week to train. I’ll never be world tour level, but I’m as fit as I can be and I’m super thankful for that. 

If you are time crunched like me, or even if you’ve got all the time in the world, coach Chi can make you into the best you on the bike. She is down to earth, encouraging and honest. She’s up on the latest research and makes a point of having excellent communication with her athletes. Look no further for a coach, you will not be disappointed. It’s been a pleasure to work through the joy and the pain with Coach Chi!

Top notch work!

Chris A

Chi was able to put together a training program that fit my riding style. We looked at my twice-a-week group rides and made sure they were part of the schedule because I enjoy them. She gave me some rides where the profile was a suggestion that could be loosely followed and some sessions to be followed strictly. When I occasionally did rides that significantly deviated from the plan, we would rearrange the rest of the schedule around what I had done. I rarely felt like I was "training."

Chi's off-the-bike, core workouts were easy to follow with the companion videos to demonstrate proper form. I found them especially useful on rest and easy days to maintain the feeling of progress.

Bart

TRAINING FOR QUICK’N’DIRTY FILTHY 50 (1:1 coaching)

“Slower is faster, trust me.” 

Searching for an MTB coach wasn’t easy as most coaches were roadies, but I eventually found Coach Chi’s website. She was an accomplished club MTB racer. She had a formal education in Sports Medicine and lived in the same town as my business so she would know all the local trails. I felt that a female coach would be more intuitive and be able to fill in blanks on stuff I may not know how to communicate. Because other than hopping on my bike with a bottle of Gatorade Zero, I had no clue and I knew it. 

After the intro meeting, I had a great feeling about her style. She seemed like a great listener and really wanted to work with my schedule and my rare food allergies, on my terms. She was data driven which was music to my ears. And she was a real XC mountain biker. So I gave her a goal that was over an hour faster than my last time and told her I would do cartwheels down the street if I hit it!  With three months to go before the race, a heart rate monitor and the Wahoo Kickr data uploading to Training Peaks, off we went! She set me up with workouts and monitored my progress after every single workout I uploaded. I had time for the Wahoo in the evenings and 1 long ride each weekend and she adapted our plan to everything I threw at her, which was a lot!

Over the three months, Chi trained me up on heart rate zones, FTP, matches, nutrition, race day planning and more. At some point you have to commit and take a leap of faith. That point really came for us early around my second long ride. Chi was pushing my Zone 2/3 fitness and I had no idea how to go easy once I got outside on the trails. I felt like I needed to let it rip! “Slower is faster, trust me”, she texted as I was getting ready to start my training ride. Easier said than done, I only knew how to push and didn’t have time to get it wrong. But I did it. I committed and trusted her. For three months I did almost everything she asked me to do.

Even at the start line, I didn’t think I would ever hit the stretch goal I gave Chi at the intro meeting.  But crossing the finish line I actually did a little better than the goal! I’m still in awe at how that all came together. Over an hour of improvement? It’s an incredible result and there is no way I could have done that without Chi’s coaching and help. 

So yes, hire Coach Chi! Open your mind, trust her and commit! 

Brooks R

TRAINING FOR BWR SAN DIEGO (Gravel Group)

I haven't had a coach since college hockey days! It was fun and forced me to stick to a schedule. It was also positive to have others in the training program - a bit of competition but more importantly a source of camaraderie

Don