La Marmotte Training Plan - Improve

About this plan

The whole plan points at one thing: La Marmotte. Across 17 weeks and roughly 12 hours a week, it builds you toward a long, hard day on the bike with nothing in there that does not earn its place.

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 La Marmotte.

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Common questions

Who is this plan for?

The rider or athlete targeting La Marmotte. 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?

It is a one-off purchase delivered straight into your TrainingPeaks account, written out session by session in plain language so you always know what to do and why.

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