Etape du Tour Training Plan - Improve

About this plan

Targeting Etape du Tour? This is the plan for it. 17 weeks, a big 12 hours a week, every one of them built around a long, hard day on the bike rather than adapted from a template.

The load builds in three-week blocks and then backs off, so the work actually lands instead of burying you. The hard sessions are dosed the way the research says fitness is built, never piled on as junk volume, and your endurance, your climbing and the way you put the power down all get their turn.

Do the work and this plan is built to take a real chunk out of your previous time when you line up for Etape du Tour.

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Common questions

Who is this plan for?

The rider or athlete targeting Etape du Tour. It suits a long, hard day on the bike and is aimed at a genuinely faster time than last time out, for someone who can give it a fairly steady 12 hours most weeks.

How much training does it involve?

You are looking at 17 weeks and a big 12 hours a week, arranged in three-week blocks that push and then recover so the fitness actually sticks.

How is the plan delivered?

You buy it once and it lands in your TrainingPeaks account, every session spelled out in plain words with the reason it is there, ready to start straight away.

Want it built around your life instead of off the shelf? See Plan Only.