Welcome to Elite Training Solutions!

Elite Training Solutions History

After graduating college in 2007, Nathan started a business to coach and train endurance athletes and help individuals reach their fitness goals. After operating without a consistent location for a few years, Elite Training Solutions was founded in 2011 and has been helping endurance athletes achieve their goals for over a decade.

Nathan’s Approach

Nathan aims to provide the best training program for each individual in a positive and encouraging environment. Areas of focus include: strength training, flexibility and range of motion, custom coaching plans, mental techniques for training and competition, testing services to provide appropriate training zones and track progression, and form/skills analysis.

Nathan looks at each client’s life style, time constraints, family commitments, health history, athletic history, and needs, to create a program that best fits their goals. Utilizing regular communication and input, we’ll stay on track and make adjustments where needed as we work towards your goals. These services are offered in both individual or group settings as well as in person or remotely, depending on your preference. Nathan encourages his clients to dream big!

Client Accomplishments:

-40+ High School All-State performers in Track and Cross-Country

-Multiple High School State Champions

-30+ Collegiate Athletic Scholarship Athletes

-10+ Ironman Triathlon Finishers

-20+ 1/2 Ironman Triathlon Finishers

-50+ Sprint Triathlon Finishers

-Olympic Trials Marathon Qualifier

-Multiple Boston Marathon Qualifiers

-50+ Marathon Finishers

-80+ 1/2 Marathon Finishers

-Countless 5k and 10k Finishers

-30+ Gravel Century Finishers

-10+ Unbound 200 Finishers

-Tour Divide Finisher

-Multiple Cannonball 550 Finishers

-150+ Gravel Races Finished

-40+ Gravel Age-Group/Overall Podiums

-30+ Colorado 14’ers Summits

About Nathan Wadsworth

At the age of 9, Nathan began participating in track and field. This ignited a real joy for running, cycling and triathlon. Early in his career, he participated in AAU tack and field qualifying for Nationals and placing top 3 in the 1500 and 3000 meters in the 13-14 age division. He also participated in the Ironkids Bread Triathlon Series making it to Nationals twice, placing top 3 in the 14 year old division. In High School, he began to focus exclusively on distance running. By his senior year, he won two Kansas State High School 5A Championships in the 1600 and 3200 meters. As a scholarship athlete at Wichita State University, Nathan flourished in the environment there and won a couple 10,000 meter Missouri Valley Championships in track and was a provisional NCAA qualifier in the 10,000 meter as a senior. Post collegiately, Nathan competed as a semi-professional distance runner. While training at home in Kansas and spending the summers in Alamosa, CO, Nathan was able to qualify for the Olympic Trials Men’s Marathon in his first marathon at Chicago in 2006. Two of his most memorable running performances were placing 21st overall at the 2007 Boston Marathon, only 8:00 behind the winner, as well as participating in the 2008 Olympic Marathon Trials. A Wichita State University graduate, Nathan received his Masters of Education in Exercise Science in 2007.

Over the years, Nathan has worked with clients who have completed running events from 800 meters to ultra marathons of 100 miles +, triathlons ranging from sprint to Ironman distance, and cycling events from 20-200 miles. Nathan has also worked to improve client’s running technique, sprint form, and athleticism in disciplines such as: basketball, baseball, soccer, football, ice-skating, dance, field hockey, rugby, and swimming. He has also worked with clients who were accepted into the Pre-BUDS Navy Seal program, Army Ranger School, FBI, law enforcement and emergency services.

Academic Highlights

• MEd Exercise Science

• USA Cycling Coach Level 3 License # 561560

• Basic Life Support (CPR and AED) American Heart Association Certified (2019-present)

• SafeSport Certified Coach (2020-present)

Running Career Highlights

• AAU National Championship Runner Up (13-14 age group) 1500 and 3000 (1996)

• IronKids Bread National Triathlon Championships 3rd place (13-14 age group) (1996)

• Two-Time Kansas State High School 5A Champion in the 1600 and 3200 (2000)

• All-Missouri Valley Conference Cross Country (2001, 2003)

• Missouri Valley Conference Indoor Track 5000 Runner-up (2003)

• Missouri Valley Conference Outdoor Track 10000 Champion (2003)

• Missouri Valley Conference Outdoor Track 10000 Champion, 5000 Runner-up (2004)

• Missouri Valley Conference Indoor Track 5000 Runner-up (2005)

• 34th place USA 1/2 Marathon Championships (2006)

• 59th place Chicago Marathon (2006)

• 29th place USA 1/2 Marathon Championships (2007)

• 21st overall at Boston Marathon (2007)

• 57th place US Olympic Trials Men's Marathon (2007)

• 41st overall at Boston Marathon (2009)

Gravel Cycling Career Highlights:

• 2015 Dirty Kanza 200 podium (5th) in men’s 30-34 division

• 2016 Runner-Up at The Epic

• 2016 Age-Group Champ at Land Run 100

• 2016 Wicked Wilson Champ

• 2016 Hondo Champ

• 2017 Dirty Kanza 200 podium (5th) in men’s 35-39 division

• 2018 Rage Against the Chainring Series Champ

• 2019 Rage Against the Chainring Series Champ

• 2019 overall podium at The Epic 90-miler

• 2019 overall Champ at the Opal Wapoo 100

• 2019 overall podium at The Hondo

• 2019 overall Champ at The Hemi 100

• 2020 Rage Against the Chainring Series Champ

• 2020 overall podium at Open Range 200k

• 2021 Rage Against the Chainring Series Champ

• 2021 overall podium at The Enduro 100

• 2021 Bike Across Kansas Flint Hills Edition (263.6 Miles in 14:22:30) Oklahoma to Nebraska through the Flint Hills on gravel

• 2021 Runner up at the Epic 150

• 2021 overall podium at The Hondo

• 2021 Runner up at the Hemi 100

• 2022 Runner up at Rage Against the Chainring Benton

• 2022 overall Champ at Rage Against the Chainring Beaumont

• 2022 Open Range 200k 8th place overall

• 2022 Elrod’s Cirque 2nd place overall

• 2022 Unbound 200 podium (5th) in men’s 40-44 division

• 2022 Kansas State Time Trial Championships age group champion, (4th place overall)

• 2022 Gravel Worlds (6th) in men’s 40-49 division

• 2022 Hotter N’ Hell 100k USAC Cat 4-5 35+ 3rd place overall. (1st road race ever)