If you’re searching for a cycling coach near you, start with what coaching actually involves. Training plans, nutrition, strength work, data review and calls with your coach all work remotely, and they make up almost all of a season. The parts that do need to be in person, like course recons, descending skills and race-day support, are better delivered at camps and races than on a weekly local ride. So the best coach for your goal is the one with the right experience, wherever they live.
Part of coaching | Where it happens | How often |
|---|---|---|
Season roadmap and target events | Remote, on a call | Once, then reviewed |
Weekly training plan | Remote, in your training calendar | Every week |
Nutrition and fuelling | Remote | Every week |
Strength and mobility | Remote, at home or in your gym | Heaviest in the off-season |
Power and training data review | Remote | Every week |
Calls with your coach | Remote, on video | Two a month at reset cc |
Course recon, pacing and tactics | In person, at a camp or race | Before key races |
Descending and cornering skills | In person | A few sessions a season |
Bike fit and lab testing | Local specialist | Once or twice a year |
Most of that table doesn’t depend on where your coach lives. The in-person rows are where a coach earns their keep on race week, and that is why we build our team camps around the races our riders target.
A local coach is a good choice in a few situations:
You’re new to riding and need hands-on help with bike handling, group riding and basic skills.
You want regular in-person sessions on a track, a velodrome or a cyclocross course.
Your goals are local: a club league, a regional time trial series or a local event your coach knows inside out.
You want occasional coached rides more than a full season plan.
For a rider with a specific goal, like qualifying for the UCI Gran Fondo World Championships or changing body composition while keeping power, the deciding factor is whether the coach has done it before with riders like you.
The best coaches have been where their athletes are, or have taken many riders through it. If you’re 45 with a demanding job and a family, ask whether the coach has taken riders with that schedule to the goal you have. A great racing history or a PhD helps, and it isn’t the same thing as knowing how to fit a season around a 50 hour work week.
A good coach can tell you where you are today and the order of the steps to your goal. At reset cc, every rider starts with a season-mapping call that sets the target events, the qualifiers and the camps. If a coach can’t outline that progression, they don’t know the path well enough to guide you along it.
Generalists are fine for general fitness. Specific goals need specialists. We specialise in masters riders racing the UCI Gran Fondo World Series, so qualification rules, course demands and age group fields are our daily work. Our guide to qualifying for Gran Fondo Worlds shows how we approach it.
Look for structure you can see: a plan that updates each week from your data, a way to log how sessions felt, and a regular review. Ask what happens when you miss a week, get sick or travel for work.
Race week is where preparation pays off or gets wasted. Ask whether the coach will be at your target events, and what support you get there: recons, briefings, feeds, a mechanic.
Where am I today, and what are the steps from here to my goal?
Have you coached riders with my background to this specific goal? Can I see examples?
How does the plan change when my week changes?
How often will we talk, and how quickly do you reply?
What do you need from me: hours per week, data, logging?
Will you be at any of my races?
Published prices for online coaching from established companies run from roughly $150 a month to well over $1,000 a month. CTS, for example, lists monthly prices from $225 to $1,295 and up on a 12-month term (CTS pricing, checked October 2026). Compare what each price includes, like calls, nutrition, strength and race support, rather than the headline number. Our current options are on the coaching page.
Our riders train at home, all over the world, and race together at team camps. Every rider gets a season roadmap, a plan written each week for their schedule, strength and nutrition, two video calls a month with their coach and the team chat. Then we meet at the races, with recons, briefings, race-day feeds, a mechanic and massage.
It works for riders who live nowhere near us:
Craig has a demanding job and commutes to work by bike. He qualified for Worlds at his first reset cc camp and raced for Canada in Japan. Read Craig’s story.
Juan trains under 10 hours a week, most of it indoors, and qualified for Worlds at his first attempt.
Kenny lost 30 lb and added 70 W at threshold in eight months while working twelve-hour days on film sets. How Kenny did it.
Free tool · 2027 Season Map
Answer nine questions. Get the team camp to target, your odds at every Worlds qualifier and what each course will ask of you.
Pick all that apply. All three are in Haute-Savoie in the same week of August 2027. A road qualification also counts for the time trial, and gravel has its own qualifiers.
In our experience there’s little practical difference for most of what coaching involves, the plan, nutrition, strength and data review, because the work happens in your own training calendar either way. No trial has compared online and in-person coaching directly. What remote coaching can’t replace is time together at races and camps, which is why we combine the two.
Less than most riders think. We build consistency first, usually five sessions a week of 60 to 90 minutes, then add volume and intensity as you absorb it.
No, unless your goal needs regular hands-on sessions, like learning to ride on a track. For a season goal, choose the coach with the right experience, wherever they are.
Book a first call and ask the questions above. A good coach will be able to outline your season and the steps to your goal in that first conversation.
Coaching and membership · 2027 season
Two ways to work with us: one-to-one coaching built around your races, or a place on the 2027 team with race camps and full support.
Team membership · 2027 season
Three levels, from one team camp to the whole season on the road to Worlds. Every level includes:
One-to-one coaching
Your own reset cc coach, and a plan built around your week, your data and the races you care about.
Zack Morris is the founder of reset cc. Silver medalist, M35-39 time trial, 2026 UCI Gran Fondo World Championships. National champion, elite and masters. Built and ran Team EF Coaching for five years.
