Vuelta Altas Cumbres is 75 miles with about 6,330 feet of climbing in the Argentine Andes, ridden high — the course averages above 7,000 feet, with variable mountain conditions. It is a mountain-gravel climbing day at real altitude.
This is a twelve-week plan for the Vuelta’s climbing and altitude, built around a body that recovers slower after fifty. It builds the climbing fitness the race demands with more space between the hard days, because arriving fit and uninjured is the harder half after fifty.
75 MI · 6,330 FT CLIMBING · ~7.5K FT ALTITUDE · 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 Vuelta Altas Cumbres guide — terrain, gearing, fueling
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