Mudslingers Endurance Coaching

Mudslingers Endurance Coaching We strip away all of the tech and make training down and dirty. Endurance simplified.

Mudslingers Endurance Coaching has partnered with Mudslingers Bike Shop in the far burbs of Chicago to offer our athletes the opportunity to train and race with purity.

Way to brave the heat while the rest of us freeze our biscuits off! First OA lady, and only lady to brave the desert tra...
11/09/2025

Way to brave the heat while the rest of us freeze our biscuits off! First OA lady, and only lady to brave the desert trails of AZ!!!

10/19/2025

We've got a thing for tag teamin' with Al & Kristen Wade of Mudslingers Endurance Coaching when it comes to supporting your event goals.

Over the years, the majority of the members of Self-Support Nutrition have been Mudslingers Endurance Coaching athletes.

Anyone who signs up for Self-Support Nutrition will get a FREE custom nutrition plan for the trilogy event of their choosing. Just let me know you're a MEC athlete when I send you a welcome email. The link to join is below.

A custom nutrition plan is tailored towards your nutrition plan, event goals, and support crew. For Marji Gesick, it even includes a drop bag packing list and support crew locations.

AND....nominate a DRTBAG below. At 9:06am on Monday 10/20, we are going to gift one of you a spot in Self-Support Nutrition. If you're already signed up, I'll refund ya.

Let's hear it DRTBAGS, who could benefit from working on their nutrition this year?

09/23/2025

Can I brag on our DRTBAGS a bit? Well alright! We had 20 DRTBAGS line up to either ride, run or ride and run this past weekend at the Marji Gesick! We had several show up to support and a few more show up as suffer crew! OUTSTANDING!!!

08/26/2025

Kristen Wade

08/26/2025

Episode #2 in Al’s afib journey - Update

08/20/2025

The big crashes. The stupid mistakes. The poor line choices. The silly mess ups. They all make you into a better rider IF YOU LEARN FROM THEM.

Don’t get embarrassed when you crash. Don’t beat yourself up (for too long). Assess what you did wrong, learn from it and do your best to apply it to your riding in future.

When you can unemotionally assess what you are doing right and what you are doing wrong you can improve. When you beat yourself up and put yourself down, you stand no chance

📷: Daniel Roberts

Props to Kristi Drake! She had to sit out the Dust Bowl 100 due to injury limiting her outside riding…so she rode the co...
07/26/2025

Props to Kristi Drake! She had to sit out the Dust Bowl 100 due to injury limiting her outside riding…so she rode the course on the trainer! Talk about GRIT.

Amazing work Kristi!

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Our story . . .

While out riding our bikes along some lonely gravel road in some way-out west town, Al and I decided to cut ties with our current coaching en devour and start fresh, rediscover our roots . . . cuz roots are dirty and Al and I love to play in the mud. We brainstormed catchy business names allowing us to pass the miles and ultimately we settled on Dirtbag Coaching. Alas, it was not meant to be. Suddenly, as quickly as lightning strikes a corn crib (we are Midwesterners) the proverbial light switch was flipped and Al who always dons his entrepreneurial cap, suggested we connect with his former bike shop Mudslingers . . . and so we did.

Here we are, excited because everything’s new and sparkly again. We’re into anything and everything dirt. But if that’s not your jam, that’s OK. We just wanna help YOU be the best athlete YOU can be. Whether it be road, water, gravel paths, single track we’re down if you are.

Al and I have pretty much done it all with regards to racing. You name it, I bet we’ve stood on the starting line gave it our best go. So if you’re an aspiring IMer, XTERRA Warrior, RAM rider, Multi-day MTB stage racer, Ultra-endurance Anton Krupicka type mountain runner well buck-a-roo we are waiting for you. We’ll get you there baby! Don’t fret, we’re not gonna hook you up to power meters, VO2 max-Dr.-Kevorkian-machines, poke and prod you for lactate or write up programming that you need a PhD in Excel to understand. We’re down and dirty, just like you.

Mudslingers Endurance Coaching is operated by husband and wife duo Al and Kristen Wade. The Wades have a decades of coaching, fitness, and racing experience between the two of them. Both are career firefighters in the far west suburbs of Chicago and avid endurance athletes.