Vermont Overland is 54 miles with about 7,000 feet of climbing, run mostly on gravel and dirt roads that include seven sectors of rough, unmaintained “Vermont pavé.” The climbing is near-constant over that distance, and the surface earns a technical rating of four out of five.
This is a twelve-week plan for riders fitting training around a full life, at roughly seven to eleven hours a week. Most of the work builds toward riding rough surfaces on tired legs while the climbing keeps coming, because a course this steep over this distance asks for endurance and repeated climbing together, not either one alone.
54 MI · 7,000 FT CLIMBING · 60% GRAVEL, 30% DIRT ROADS, 10% PAVEMENT · 12 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 and a mid-plan retest, so the plan runs on your real numbers
- The full Vermont Overland 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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