Belgian Waffle Ride San Diego is 131 miles with about 12,000 feet of climbing and roughly 40% off-road across 23 sectors, on rocky single-track, sandy washes, and loose gravel sharp enough to be notorious for flats. The technical terrain starts early at Lake Hodges around mile 35, the climbing toward Palomar’s base comes at mile 85, and the final dirt at mile 120 arrives when you’re already tired.

This is a twelve-week plan built around the higher weekly hours that racing this course takes, not just getting through it. The volume sits in the 9 to 13 hour range and the hard days are more specific, because a result over 131 miles and 23 off-road sectors comes from repeating the climbing and the technical terrain, not surviving it once.

WHAT'S INSIDE

• Structured workouts on your calendar, with real power and heart-rate graphs


• Strength work built in, with video walkthroughs


• Weekly notes from me, plus the Gravel Grit mental program


• A testing week and a mid-plan retest, so the plan runs on your real numbers


• The full Belgian Waffle Ride San Diego guide — terrain, gearing, fueling