Nova Eroica’s Terre di Siena route is 81 miles with 6,529 feet of climbing on Tuscan strade bianche and road transfers from Buonconvento. Five timed sections sit inside the longer day, including the Monte Sante Marie climb.
This is an eight-week plan for that distance, climbing, and timed-section format, built around your hours. Eight weeks assumes you are starting with a base; it focuses that fitness on endurance and repeated hard efforts as fatigue builds.
81 MI · 6,529 FT CLIMBING · THE TERRE DI SIENA ROUTE RUNS MAINLY ON TUSCAN STRADE BIANCHE · 8 WEEKS · 7–11 HR/WK · FINISHER
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, so the plan runs on your real numbers
- The full Nova Eroica guide — terrain, gearing, fueling
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