Cody Waite – Champion XTERRA Triathlete

Cody joins ASEA with over 20 years of bike racing and triathlon racing experience under his belt, including many years racing at the elite level.

Cody represents ASEA with over 20 years of bike racing and triathlon racing experience under his belt, including the last 18 years racing at the professional level.

Over the last decade, Cody became one of the United States’ best XTERRA racers, representing the USA (and ASEA) in multiple World Championship appearances. More recently, Cody has turned his attention to endurance mountain bike racing, racing to 15th place at the infamous Leadville 100 MTB Race in 2015 and accumulating multiple wins and podium appearances in the off-road endurance scene the last two years. Aside from his racing accomplishments, Cody coaches endurance athletes through his training facility and coaching company Sessions: 6 Sport Performance, in Lakewood, Colorado with his wife Kathy, also an ASEA sponsored athlete. Never far from a good tan and a clean shave, Cody works hard at making coaching, training and racing his profession.

“My body takes a beating as a professional off-road endurance athlete. Typical races take 3 to 6+ hours, very hilly, rugged terrain, often at high altitudes and extreme weather conditions.

With ASEA, I noticed 2 significant benefits: the enhancement of my endurance capabilities—being able to run and ride further and faster, which is critical in racing. And the second big thing is the product has allowed me to stay healthy over the course of the 11 month long training and racing seasons. It’s easy to get run down, and the product has kept me healthy.

ASEA helps endurance athletes utilize more fat for fuel; that is what we’re trying to do with all our hours of training. We’re training our body to use our fat for fuel and spare the glycogen. So when we’re in a race situation, we have that high-octane glycogen energy at the end of the race so we can move forward.”

In 2018 you can look for Cody to be taking on the Leadville 100 MTB race again in August (gunning for a 6:45 time and top-10 finish), while tackling a large handful of other off-road endurance events, national championships and perhaps another world championship.

You can follow along on Cody’s training and racing adventures by following his Instagram feed: @codywaite.