The training didn’t happen, and Lone Wolf Gravel — remote wilderness gravel in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula — is still on the calendar.

The race starts at a gravel pit outside Iron Mountain in late September: fast, hard-packed gravel, steep and chunky climbs, courses so lightly marked you navigate by GPS, and minimal aid. The weather is variable — a cold start, a mild afternoon, or steady rain. This is a six-week plan for the weeks you have left. Six weeks can’t rebuild endurance from scratch, and this plan doesn’t claim to. It spends the time on what still moves: riding sized to your fitness now, long rides that make four self-supported hours ordinary, and the pacing, fueling, and layering decisions a remote course rewards.

WHAT'S INSIDE

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


• Strength kept to what helps, with video walkthroughs


• Weekly notes + the Gravel Grit program


• A testing week so the work fits your fitness now


• The full Lone Wolf Gravel guide — self-sufficiency, navigation, pacing

WHAT YOU'LL GET

The best salvaged version of your race — finishing a remote gravel course with something left.

For the rider with weeks left. · plans@gravelgodcoaching.com