Devils Cardigan is 66 miles with about 7,500 feet of climbing on gravel roads through the Tasmanian mountains. Mountain conditions are variable, and the first mountain sections come in around mile 35.
This is a twelve-week plan built around the higher weekly hours that racing this course takes, not just getting through it. Most of the work is aimed at climbing repeatedly on gravel over a long day, because a result here comes from the repeated climbing, not a single effort.
66 MI · 7,545 FT CLIMBING · GRAVEL ROADS THROUGH TASMANIAN MOUNTAINS · 12 WEEKS · 9–13 HR/WK · COMPETE
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 Devils Cardigan guide — terrain, gearing, fueling
Hey, I'm Matti. I spent 11 years at TrainingPeaks, where they trusted me to teach coaches how to coach at TrainingPeaks University. I raced Amateur Elite with Rio Grande Cycling Team and podiumed my age group at Unbound 200 in 2026. I have a degree in biology and exercise physiology from St. Olaf. I'm also a middle-aged dad of three, so I know training doesn't happen in a vacuum. I help gravel riders get stupidly fast without becoming the person who brings a food scale to a party