Grinduro France is 62 miles with about 6,500 feet of climbing in the Vosges mountains, run in an enduro format where the climbs are untimed and four descents are timed on steep, technical, forested terrain — half gravel, roughly a third singletrack. The weather is generally warm, but mountain conditions can change.
This is a twelve-week plan for masters riders, with more recovery built in than a younger rider would need, because you recover slower than you used to and arriving fit and uninjured is the harder half after fifty. Most of the work builds climbing fitness and handling for steep, forested terrain.
62 MI · 6,562 FT CLIMBING · 50% GRAVEL, 30% SINGLETRACK (TIMED), 20% PAVED · 12 WEEKS · 7–11 HR/WK · MASTERS 50+
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 Grinduro France guide — terrain, gearing, fueling
Hey! I'm Matti - also known as the Gravel God himself!
If you're into gravel racing and want to be as fast as possible, you had better choose me!
Why?
Because I'm the fastest, least talented person to ever ride a bike. I've made every mistake in the book so you don't have to and I'm here to save you years of failure and struggle.
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