Nate Llerandi

Currently a CAT 2 cyclist. 
2009 highlights include: 
  -1st Mt. Evans Colorado State and FIAC National Hill Climb Champs 
  - 2nd Dead Dog FIAC National Stage Race Champs 
  - Placed top 3 in all 7 (of 11 total) targeted races

World class triathlete.  Nate’s professional athletic career culminated with a ranking of top American/6th in the world in the prestigious ITU World Cup Series. Nate has won over a dozen international class triathlons
Highlights include: 
  - 1st at Chicago Mrs. Ts;
  - 4th at the ’94 World Triathlon Sprint Champs;
  - 3rd at the ’95 Pam Am Games;
  - 5th at the ’94 Goodwill Games;
  - top 3 at many international class triathlons

National class swimmer.  Nate was ranked in the top 16 in the nation in his specialty events from age 9 through his collegiate years of competition.
Highlights include: 
  - 1 NCAA Champion title;
  - 13 NCAA All-America honors

Coaching Background:

Nate has been coaching endurance athletes of all skill levels, ages and walks of life since 1990.  As a self-coached triathlete, he has successfully blended his personal approach to athletic excellence with the knowledge he’s gleaned from the top coaches for whom he’s competed over the years.  Nate also learns a lot directly from the athletes he coaches.  Their diverse backgrounds, sports of choice and levels of talent pose different challenges when Nate creates each athlete’s customized training program geared toward optimizing his or her performance.

This blended approach – combining personal experience, knowledge gained from the mentor/athlete relationship and his ongoing research into how to constantly do things better - has provided Nate with a very balanced and realistic program in which his athletes thrive and excel.

Nate works with a small body of athletes to ensure that each gets the personal attention he or she deserves.  He does not use “cookie cutter” training programs because he believes that an athlete needs a personalized schedule to best fit his or her unique life situation.  Athletics is only one dimension of a multi-faceted person.