Pat Casey is a USA Triathlon Level 2 Coach, CSCS, Team USA Age Group Coach, and Retul Premium Certified bike fit expert. His background as an elite road cyclist developed into a consulting and coaching career, which allowed him to combine his love of cycling and triathlon with his devotion to helping people improve their quality of life and realize their athletic potential through endurance sports.

Pat grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, where he spent the months he wasn’t playing ice hockey riding his mountain bike. He was introduced to cross-country racing and joined the St. Louis-based cycling team, Dogfish Racing when he was 15. At this time, Pat also got a job as an aspiring bike mechanic, and to this day, he still wears his “mechanic hat” after 13 years in bike shops all over the Midwest, Southeast, and Mountain West.

During his undergraduate studies at Truman State University, Pat focused on health science, global health, and biology. He pursued work in the summer months that allowed him to further his experience and understanding of the human body. For three summers, Pat worked alongside Andy Coggan (co-author of Racing and Training with a Power Meter) at Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at Washington University School of Medicine. Immersed in cycling as his means to escape and unplug, Pat found his love for cycling, physiology, and science in one place.

Upon graduation, Pat pursued an internship in Alabama and continued riding his road bike for transportation and recreation. During the summer of 2012, Pat rode his bike from San Francisco, CA, to Boston, MA, in support of Partners in Health. This Global Health organization inspired mainly his move to Alabama after graduation. Getting back to racing in Alabama, Pat found himself on the podium and moved up in Category quickly with help from his coach at the time, Heather. Instead of continuing on his path toward graduate school, Pat wanted to see where his dream of professional bike racing would take him. In 2014, Pat and Heather loaded up and moved their lives to Park City, Utah and Pat joined the Canyon Bicycles-Shimano Domestic Elite Cycling Team. He spent the following spring and summer months (2015 and 2016) traveling the US on the domestic PRT (Professional Road Tour) Circuit, followed by a year with the New Orleans-based team, Palmer Cycling. The latter would help get him to a myriad of PRT events in the role of Rider and Director for the small squad. In this role, Pat found himself more valuable as a team leader and coach than as a rider. In 2018, racing became an outlet for competition, but Pat’s passion for coaching and devotion to his athletes has outdistanced his desire to spend as much time on the road. He currently races as a Cat 1 at the National level with his team, Empyr Cycling. 

In November 2017, Pat was accepted to receive his USAT Level 2 Certification at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. Pat was hired as Head Coach with USAT for Team USA and was selected to coach the Duathlon and Cross Triathlon Age Group teams competing at the World Championship Festival in Fyn, Denmark. He has served as Head Coach for all multisport teams at the World Championship Festival in Pontevedra, Spain, in 2019, Avilés, Spain, in 2021, and Abu Dhabi, in November 2022.

Contributing Author For:

• Triathlete Magazine

• TrainingPeaks Blog