Training Director Geoff Kabush

Canadian Olympic

and World Cup mountain bike racer Geoff Kabush is taking on a new role to help develop the next generation of Canadian athletes. He’s become a director with Catalyst Kinetics, a full-service health, sport and training clinic located in Burnaby, B.C. “There are so many ideas and tips I didn’t learn until later in my career,” said Kabush. “When I started racing there was hardly any formal structure to cycling and I was just lucky I grew up in such a great place for mountain biking.”

Although still focused on his professional racing career, Kabush will start to do some coaching through Catalyst Kinetics, whose clinic opened this past summer. However, he sees the clinic as more than just a place of business. “I really hope the facility can act as somewhat of a clubhouse, as in other organized sports, where we can accomplish a lot of these goals and have fun at the same time as developing athletes,” said Kabush. “I hope it can act as a launch pad for more young riders to pursue the sport professionally.”

Andrew Pinfold, a former racer and now a partner at Catalyst, is the one in charge of turning Catalyst into that launch pad. He’s also the head coach and technical director for Team Devo, a cycling- development program with more than 30 participants that receives financial and training support from the organization. “Along with fiscal support, Catalyst provides state- ofthe- art physiological testing and training programs for all athletes in the

under- 17 and under- 19 streams,” said Pinfold. “Once the facility is finished, Devo riders will also have access to all training equipment for weekly training sessions throughout the year.”

Graham Duthie is the president and managing director of the Catalyst Kinetics Group and a former member of the Canadian national swimming team. After Duthie’s tenure on the team, he started to pursue medical school. However, he changed directions when the national swim team needed a full-time physiologist. At the time, some of the training practices were very rudimentary, so Duthie work on how to get the most out of an athlete. He has since developed a business around applied physiology: monitoring an athlete’s physical exertion and building training

“When I started racing there was hardly any formal structure to cycling and I was just lucky I grew up in such a great place for mountain biking.”

programs specific to each person. Duthie has worked with athletes from junior A hockey teams to the Olympic team, including Kabush. Soon, Kabush will be bringing some of that knowledge to a new set of riders.