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 an eight-week plan for the Traka, built around four to six hours a week, and it assumes real endurance is already there. Eight limited-hour weeks sharpen durability and handling; they don’t build a 126-mile base from scratch.
126 MI · 8,694 FT CLIMBING · 84% UNPAVED, ROCKY + TECHNICAL · 8 WEEKS · 4–6 HR/WK · TIME-CRUNCHED
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 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.