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 over fifty, built with more recovery between the harder days, because the body recovers slower than it used to and arriving fit and uninjured is the harder half after fifty. Most of the work builds the repeated climbing and the handling that rough dirt over this distance asks for.
54 MI · 7,000 FT CLIMBING · 60% GRAVEL, 30% DIRT ROADS, 10% PAVEMENT · 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 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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