Bighorn is 85 miles with about 10,000 feet of climbing, most of it above 8,000 feet, on loose descents to a technical finish. It opens with a 3,000-foot climb in the first 13 miles, and the air stays thin the whole way — meaningfully less oxygen than you train with at home.
This is a six-week plan. Six weeks isn’t enough to build the climbing fitness Bighorn needs from scratch, but it’s enough to get your climbing legs and altitude tolerance as ready as the time allows, and get you to the start prepared for what the race actually is.
85 MI · 10,000 FT CLIMBING · 7–11K FT ALTITUDE, LOOSE, RUTTED JEEP ROADS · 6 WEEKS · 5–9 HR/WK · SAVE MY RACE
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 Bighorn guide — altitude strategy, pacing, and gearing, so smart riding can cover what six weeks of training can’t
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.
When I'm not helping my athletes get faster on a bike I write obvious, overlooked training content that makes cycling training easy to understand.