The Traka is 126 miles around Girona on rocky Mediterranean gravel, forest trails, and technical descents — 84% of it unpaved, and little of it smooth. With about 8,700 feet of climbing spread across the day, it asks for endurance and bike handling in roughly equal measure rather than one big climb.
This is a twelve-week plan for a long, technical day on rough gravel, built around the hours you have to train. Most of the work is endurance and handling loose, rocky ground while tired — what gets you through 126 Catalan miles, not one climb to peak for.
126 MI · 8,694 FT CLIMBING · 84% UNPAVED, ROCKY + TECHNICAL · 12 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 and a mid-plan retest, so the plan runs on your real numbers
- The full Traka 200 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.