About Coach Kolie
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Kolie coaches professional, elite, and amateur athletes of all disciplines at all levels. He's consulted for World Tour teams, world champions, national team coaches, is part of the WKO development group that creates and tests new and advanced cycling analytics, independently developed many unique analysis tools for road racers and sprinters, and educates and develops other coaches.
Kolie is a lifelong cyclist, national championship medalist, and former Taekwondo instructor and competitor (3rd Dan; selected for international WTF and ITF competitions, and Junior Olympics competitor). He holds a BS in Biology from Boston University, where he learned biochemistry, metabolism, and physiology. This background gives him a scientific and fundamental understanding the unique optimization required for each individual that is reflected in his training methods. |
About Coach Fabiano
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Fabiano's coaching methodology is simple as that and based on your subjective and objective data derived from observations, biological and physical sensors like power meters. A holistic approach that checks all aspects of your training and preparation as an athlete includes medical, physiological, psychological, nutritional, biomechanics, and equipment tuning. His goal is to achieve your maximum performance in each of these topics.
Fabiano was born and raised in the countryside and mountainous area of Brazil. There he had the opportunity to work on many cycling skills and participate in several local/state bike races. After earning an MD and a master's in sports medicine and PhD in molecular medicine, he felt it was time to help athletes achieve their full athletic potential and personal goals be it at the amateur or elite level. |
About Coach Alex
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Alex is a category 1 road racer who has trained and raced in the better part of the US, often spending his winters in Medellin, Colombia to train and race as well. He discovered cycling at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he completed his undergraduate degree in Sustainable Community Development. He has lived in Boston, MA, Austin, TX, and now Tucson, AZ, while competing at the elite level.
With experience training cyclists of all levels to racing success, and having over 9 years of training and racing under his belt, Alex knows firsthand what it means to keep a healthy training-life balance and is excited to impart his knowledge to other aspiring bike racers. Alex is also very passionate about diet and has been vegan for 12 years. Alex comes to Empirical Cycling as a long time coached athlete and is enjoys giving back all he has learned to the cycling community. |
About Coach Cory
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Cory is a two-time US amateur national champion in the time trial and currently races for team Butcherbox. He has extensive knowledge of race strategy from his own experiences riding for professional teams. An aggressive attacker, he has shown his ability to climb and time trial by winning GC at Redlands by lapping the field twice on the last day, and he has an impressive palmarès that includes individual and GC wins at Valley of the Sun, Cascade Classic, San Dimas, and more.
Born in Florida and raised in Central California, Cory started racing dirt bikes at 7. Cory discovered cycling while through cross training for motorcycle racing, and he would later go on to chase his new dream of making it to Europe. Cory is a lifelong athlete who has experience training cyclists of all levels, and his motocross experience opens up new opportunities for him to expand across the two sports. Through Cory's own personal experiences with a variety of coaches, he understands the importance of proper communication, work-life balance, and mental health. He views his athletes as people, not numbers, and stresses the importance of a healthy relationship with sport and nutrition. Cory comes to Empirical cycling after over 2 decades combined of racing and brings with him a wealth of knowledge to share. |
About Coach Katie
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Katie is a category 2 road racer competing on the U.S. domestic elite team 3T/Q+M. She particularly enjoys stage races, climbing, and crits with hills. Katie took up cycling her freshman year at Middlebury College, while she was also swimming at the varsity level. She went on to lead the collegiate team for 2.5 years and is now the Social Coordinator with the Eastern Collegiate Cycling Conference (ECCC). Katie studied English Literature and Global Health at the undergraduate level and now works at Dartmouth College for the Epidemiology department as a research assistant.
Katie's deep training history and Kolie's tutelage gives her a practical understanding of athlete needs both on and off the bike. She has also coached youth and masters swim teams in the past. Katie also mentors for Little Bellas, which is a program that helps young girls learn mountain biking and other life skills. Katie has a focused and hands-on approach with all athletes and her enthusiasm is infectious. She cares about her clients not only as athletes, but as holistic people and will modify each person's training based on their goals, life demands, and schedule. Katie will always help you train smarter, not harder. |
About Coach Rory
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Rory is a coach who wants to focus on athletes long term development while also being considerate of cycling sadly not being everyone’s full time job. He’s been coaching since 2016 and has gradually built a strong understanding of how to bring an athlete to their best performance year on year. He is particularly enthusiastic for time trialling across all durations and courses.
Rory has lived in Scotland his whole life and has previously spent a PhD researching ideal environments for detecting former signs of life in future missions to Mars. When he isn’t coaching he works as a sustainability expert keen to ensure that the world remains hospitable enough to ride bikes in. He has also been a lecturer and educator in biology for 8 years. His own race results are highlighted by a Bronze in TTT nationals and an honorary beer for collapsing on the road after a hill climb. |