Reliance Deep Woods is two race days of mountain climbing in Tennessee’s Cherokee National Forest — no course markings, just you, your GPS, and the woods.

The gravel runs to eroded roadbeds and embedded rock, the climbs are long forest grades, and Sunday’s stage starts on legs that raced Saturday. This is a six-week plan for the weeks you have left, built around what still moves the needle: six weeks won’t build climbing fitness from scratch, but it will sharpen what you have, rehearse pacing so Saturday doesn’t spend what Sunday needs, and sort navigation and gearing before the start.

WHAT'S INSIDE

• Triage — the highest-value work for the time left, on real graphs


• Strength kept to what helps, not what fills time, with video demos


• Notes on pacing two days within yourself + the Gravel Grit program


• A testing week so the work fits the fitness you have now


• The full Reliance Deep Woods guide — pacing, gearing, fueling, and navigating an unmarked course

WHAT YOU'LL GET

The best salvaged version of your weekend — finishing with something left, not unraveling on Sunday.

For the rider who’s out of runway but not out of the race. · plans@gravelgodcoaching.com