I'm Katrina Engelsted — PMBIA-certified mountain bike coach, women's-clinic specialist, and the person who'll talk you off the edge of your first real drop (then make you do it again, grinning). I coach women's skills clinics, private sessions, and middle-school riders across Colorado.
Group clinics built for how women actually learn to ride — progression over bravado, body position, cornering, jumping, dropping, and the mental game. Beginner to intermediate, judgment-free.
One rider, one set of goals, one fast feedback loop. We find the specific thing holding you back — usually it's two small fixes, not ten — and drill it until it's muscle memory.
The awkward middle: you can ride, but features still scare you. I bridge the gap to jumps, drops, steeps, and committing trail with a step-ladder that never asks for a leap of faith.
Leading women's intermediate clinics at Valmont and on local trails — jumping, dropping, and guided trail rides that turn skills-park reps into real-trail confidence. Current season.
Coaching middle-school riders through the fall season — fundamentals, trail etiquette, and the kind of early confidence that keeps kids on bikes for life.
Ran recurring women's skills clinics three times a month all summer, plus middle-school coaching. Consistent group progression across a full season — the same riders, leveling up week over week.
Designed and taught hands-on mechanic clinics for women: bike fit, cockpit setup, fixing a flat, and a suspension deep-dive. Because confidence on the trail starts with not being afraid of your own bike.
Coached clinics with VNTR Birds — my first formal season running clinic-style instruction in a women's-community setting. Where the coaching bug really took hold.
Earned my PMBIA instructor certification at the sport's mecca — formal training in skills breakdown, progression design, terrain selection, and group management. Plus Wilderness First Aid + CPR for whatever the trail throws at us.
I found mountain biking in my mid-twenties and spent my first few seasons collecting unsolicited advice from the men I rode with — most of it some variation of "just send it." Turns out "send it" is not a skills cue. So I went and got certified, learned how skills actually break down, and started teaching it properly. Mild spite, excellent coaching.
Fifteen-ish years of riding later, with a late-blooming obsession with technical descending, I coach the way I wish someone had coached me.
That means: break the skill down, build a ladder, and never ask a rider to make a leap of faith. Confidence isn't bravado — it's the quiet certainty that comes from having done the small version a hundred times.
I'm also a parent, a data nerd, and a startup person, which means I run a clinic like a good lesson plan: clear objectives, fast feedback, and zero ego. Everybody leaves having done something they didn't think they could.
I'm based between Boulder and the Roaring Fork Valley and travel for the right gig. Women's clinics, private coaching, youth programs, mechanic workshops — if it gets more people riding confidently, I want in.