The training didn’t happen. Niseko Gravel — 62 miles through the Hokkaido mountains — is still coming.

Niseko Gravel is 62 miles with about 5,600 feet of climbing in the mountains of Hokkaido, Japan — forest-road gravel connected by paved sections, with the climbing spread across the whole day and the last of it arriving near the finish. September there is usually mild, but the weather in these mountains is genuinely variable, and rain changes how the whole course rides. Life got in the way — work, an injury, a season that slipped — and now there are weeks left, not months. This is a six-week plan for the weeks you have left. Six weeks isn’t enough to build mountain endurance from scratch, but it is enough to get your climbing as ready as the time allows, keep one honest long ride in the schedule, and settle a pacing plan that spends the early climbs carefully so the late ones stay rideable. Smart riding covers a lot on a course like this, and it’s teachable.

WHAT'S INSIDE

• Triage — the highest-value work for the time left, on real graphs, not PDFs


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


• Notes on pacing a mountain day within yourself + the Gravel Grit program


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


• The full Niseko Gravel guide — pacing, gearing, fueling, so smart riding covers what training couldn’t

WHAT YOU'LL GET

The best salvaged version of your race — finishing with something left, not unraveling when the course climbs again late.

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