Houffa Gravel’s 2026 main course is 86 miles with roughly 7,185 feet of climbing over three laps of an Ardennes circuit. About 70 percent is off-road, and the 11.2-percent Côte de Saint Roch opens the lap with a 16-percent maximum.
This is a twelve-week plan built around the higher volume that racing three Ardennes laps takes. The hard days address repeatable climbing efforts, while the longer work develops endurance for 86 miles of mostly off-road racing.
86 MI · ~7,185 FT CLIMBING · THREE LAPS OF A 46-KILOMETRE BELGIAN ARDENNES CIRCUIT OUT OF · 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 Houffa Gravel guide — terrain, gearing, fueling
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