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Fitness and endurance
Develop the aerobic fitness, sustainable power and repeatable efforts required for the duration and terrain of your target events.
Personalised training and race preparation
Mountain Bike Coaching for Masters Cyclists
Train with greater purpose and prepare with confidence. Coach.Bike helps masters mountain bikers build the fitness, skills and race preparation needed for the events that matter most.
Your coaching is shaped around your goals, cycling experience, available training time, recovery capacity and the specific demands of your target events.
Structured, personalised training
Recovery-aware planning
Event-specific preparation
Coaching with Craig Peacock 2025 UCI Masters XCO World Champion
More than physical fitness
Mountain bike performance requires connected preparation
Strong mountain bike performance comes from developing fitness, technical ability, recovery and race execution together. The priorities depend on the rider and the specific demands of their target events.
The coaching principle Focus your available training time on the capabilities most likely to improve your performance.
Technical development
Identify the bike-handling and technical demands that matter most, then incorporate focused skills practice into your preparation.
Recovery and consistency
Balance training stress with sufficient recovery so you can train consistently, remain healthy and arrive at priority events ready to perform.
Race preparation
Prepare your pacing, nutrition, equipment, course approach and race-day decisions before you reach the start line.
Built around the rider
Your training plan needs to work in the real world
Masters cyclists bring different levels of experience, fitness, available time and recovery capacity. Your coaching begins with understanding you as a rider—not placing you into a generic program.
Your goals and target events
Training priorities are based on the events and performance outcomes that matter most to you.
Your current capability
Your cycling history, present fitness, technical strengths, health and previous injuries provide the starting point.
Your available time and recovery
The plan accounts for work, family, travel and how much training and recovery you can realistically manage.
Your feedback and progress
Training can be reviewed and adapted as your fitness, circumstances and event preparation change.
Experience as a masters racer Understanding the demands of preparation, competition and recovery from the rider’s perspective.
This coaching could be right for you if:
You are preparing for XCO, marathon, endurance or stage racing.
You want structure without an unnecessarily high-volume plan.
You need training that fits around work, family and recovery.
You value feedback and an approach that can adapt.
Experience in practice
Racing experience translated into practical coaching
International mountain bike racing provides first-hand experience of demanding courses, changing conditions, event preparation and the decisions that influence race-day performance.
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Mountain biking in practice
Mountain bike racing requires the rider to bring fitness, technical ability, preparation and judgement together on the course.
The training plan should prepare you for the actual demands of your event—not simply improve fitness in isolation.
Lessons from competition
Prepare for the demands you will actually face
A strong race result depends on more than fitness. The course, race duration, conditions and the cyclist’s decisions all shape the preparation required.
Understand the event
Identify the course profile, duration, technical demands and likely racing conditions.
Prepare specifically
Focus training and skills practice on the capabilities most important to the target event.
Execute the race plan
Arrive with clear decisions about pacing, nutrition, equipment, warm-up and course approach.
The coaching objective
Turn the demands of your target event into clear training priorities and a practical race-preparation plan.