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 built for four to six hours a week, so the limited training time goes toward the repeated climbing and the rough surface rather than easy filler miles. Most rides are focused efforts, because there isn’t room to waste hours against 7,000 feet of climbing and seven sectors of technical dirt.

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