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Endurance and sustainable power
Develop the aerobic fitness, sustained power and repeatable efforts required across the distance, climbing and duration of the event.
Personalised gravel training and race preparation
Gravel Coaching for Masters Racers
Prepare for long distances, changing surfaces and the decisions that shape a gravel race. Coach.Bike helps masters racers build the endurance, pacing and event-specific preparation needed to perform with confidence.
Your coaching is shaped around your goals, experience, available training time, recovery capacity and the distance, climbing, surfaces and conditions of your target events.
Endurance and pacing Fuelling and hydration Event-specific preparation
Gravel demands endurance, judgement and event-specific preparation. Coaching with Craig Peacock Experienced masters gravel, mountain bike and endurance racer
More than riding long distances
Gravel performance requires connected preparation
Gravel races combine endurance, variable surfaces, climbing, group dynamics and self-sufficiency. Preparation should reflect the actual demands of the rider’s target event.
Handling and equipment
Prepare for variable surfaces through appropriate skills practice, tyre selection, tyre pressure, gearing and equipment decisions.
Pacing, fuelling and hydration
Develop a realistic plan for managing effort, energy intake, hydration and aid-station decisions throughout the race.
Race tactics and preparation
Prepare for positioning, group dynamics, course conditions, mechanical risks and the equipment and supplies you need to carry.
From training to race-day execution
Prepare the whole race—not only your fitness
Gravel performance depends on more than arriving with strong legs. Pacing, nutrition, equipment, positioning and responses to changing conditions all need to work together.
Gravel coaching in practice
Connect your preparation to the demands of the event
Effective preparation combines physical training with practical decisions about pacing, fuelling, equipment, terrain and race-day execution.
Pacing strategy
Establish a realistic approach to the opening kilometres, sustained climbs, group riding and the final stages of the race.
Fuelling and hydration
Practise what you will eat and drink, when you will take it and how the plan changes with duration, intensity and conditions.
Equipment decisions
Consider tyre choice, pressure, gearing, clothing, tools, spares and the equipment needed for the specific course.
Race contingencies
Prepare for changing weather, mechanical problems, missed groups, difficult surfaces and moments when the original plan must change.
Understand Analyse the event demands
Prepare Train for the key demands
Practise Test the race-day plan
Execute Adapt confidently on race day
The aim is not to predict every race-day situation.
It is to arrive with a clear plan, tested decisions and the confidence to adapt when the race unfolds differently than expected.