The Little Apple 100 is 62 miles of Will County farmland gravel, roughly 88% unpaved, with about 3,000 feet of climbing spread across the route. Heat, wind, and humidity are all possible.
This is an eight-week plan for finishing that distance, built around the hours you already have most weeks. Most of the work is time on gravel and steady endurance riding, because 62 miles on unpaved roads asks more of tired legs than the same distance on pavement.
62 MI · ~3,000 FT CLIMBING · FLAT WILL COUNTY FARMLAND GRAVEL, ~88% UNPAVED (80% ON THE 150K) · 8 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, so the plan runs on your real numbers
- The full Little Apple 100 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.
When I'm not helping my athletes get faster on a bike I write obvious, overlooked training content that makes cycling training easy to understand.