~ New Destinations on America's Oldest Gravel ~2022 Epic Appalachian Gravel Camp
Get ready to experience new worlds of adventure with Hunter and the Rockin' PCG Team
April 6-10, 2022
Bedford, Virginia
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"With epic mountain gravel climbs, roaring streams and grand vistas, the Appalachian MTNS are a perfect escape." -- Hunter
Are you ready to get dirty on America's oldest gravel? Let's do it! Whether you're racing Unbound, SBT GRVL, unPAved, Croatan 150 or a host of other great rides, this camp is for you.
The goal of this amazing gravel camp is to focus on improving your gravel skills and technique as well as race tactics and strategy--while accurately developing your power profile in WKO! The beautiful Appalachian Mountains are the perfect place for a gravel cycling camps with awesome climbing opportunities, quiet country roads for race scenarios--and it’s the hometown for the Peaks Coaching Group Headquarters!
The "brochure" can't even come close to describing all that happens at a PCG Gravel Camp. But let's try anyway! There's WKO analysis and season preparation by the master himself. There's daily rides where skills like sprinting, counter-steering, descending(!) and pacelining are taught and practiced on gravel roads. There's on-the-dirt-road race scenarios where teams battle it out for all the glory. There's stories from Hunter's many, many years in the industry and as a professional cyclist. There's SAG support, amazing A, B and C Road Groups for different levels, massages, yoga, stretching, on-staff bike mechanics, incredible food, bike fits, rider video analysis... There's just so much!
CAMP TYPE
- Loaner power meters provided, either pedals or wheels
- Endurance and mid-intensity paced rides
- 30-70 miles of daily riding with three pace groups
- Daily education seminars, power file analysis, yoga, massage, video analysis, bike fitting and advanced learning
COST
- $1,225 - Lodging Not Included
- $275 - Deposit
- Deposit is fully refundable.
- Alumni Campers: $50 Discount
- Lunch and Dinner included, and breakfast on your own
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
- Cyclists who rock! (Pun intended!)
- General fitness enthusiasts, competitive recreational cyclists and above
- Riders seeking performance improvement in a gran fondo, event, or category racing
- Riders able to ride for extended periods of time at 12mph and above
- Gravel/Road cyclists (MTB, CX and triathletes are welcome)
The health and safety of our campers and staff has always been our top priority.
All 2022 PCG Camps will strictly follow the protocols below to limit physical interactions. Additional safety measures may be added based on local guidelines--and full protocols will be communicated to you in advance of your Camp!
Now--let's ride!
Limit on Camp size.
All Camps will be exclusive experiences with no more than 20 campers. To be honest, this has been our cap anyhow for our camps. We like small camps with plenty of coaching!
Protective gear.
All campers and staff are required to wear face coverings throughout the day when gathering with others. This will be when we are inside. This can be a face shield, face mask or buff. A custom PCG neck gaiter is included in your registration.
Negative Covid Test required.
We will need you to take a Covid test 3 days before camp begins and then do your absolute best to minimize your exposure in those following 3 days before camp.
Hand washing.
All guests and staff are required to regularly wash their hands throughout the day. We’ll provide all guests with travel bottles of hand sanitizer. We’ll also provide hand washing stations or hand sanitizer in our offices, multiple locations at tables, and at all stopping points along your ride.
Nightly disinfection. In addition, our staff will regularly disinfect any common surfaces like tables, door knobs, etc. each night in order to provide you with the cleanest environment possible.
Your camp is guaranteed.
Free transfers to 2022 or 2023 PCG Camp if your camp is affected by COVID-19 or if you don’t feel comfortable attending. Transfer must be made at least 48 hours prior to your camp departure.
Stay home if you are sick.
We’ve revised our transfer policies to allow you to transfer to any other 2022 or 2023 PCG camp if you’re feeling sick or have been at risk of exposure to COVID-19.
Hunter Interviewed by mid-Atlantic Gravel, Travel and Dirt!
- How is power different on gravel than road?
- How do we actually produce power?
- How does cadence compare between gravel and road?
- Why is the above all so important for gravel power riders?
- How should roadies travel from gravel?
- How are tractor pulls crucial to gravel training?
- And so much more!
Let's get dirty!
Your ultimate adventure in training, gravel grinding and learning.
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DAY 1
April 6
Sneak a Ride!
11:30am - 2:00pm
- Check-in at PCG world headquarters!
3:00pm - 5:30pm Falling Creek Park Skills drills clinic. Learn cornering, braking, bunny hopping, wheelies and more!
6:00pm - Dinner- We'll have amazing BBQ and beer from Beale's, which is in our backyard!
7:30pm - 9:30pm Introductions to staff and campers, and we'll go over camp agenda, so you'll be ready to dig in to the details tomorrow.
Falling Creek Park- 10 miles
DAY 2
April 7
Porter Mountain loop!
Breakfast on your own
8:30am
- Morning Briefing and depart.
9:00am
- Porter MTN Loop with two great climbs where we'll do our 1 min & 5min tests, and enjoy some great gravel riding along the ridges
2:00pm -Yoga & Lunch - back at headquarters
3:00pm - 5:30 pm - Hunter Allen Group Power File Review and Power Education- Review of Power Training Principles
6:30pm - Dinner as a group- A perennial favorite- The Station!
Porter Mountain- 35 miles, 3-4 hours
DAY 3
April 8
Sedalia Speed day!
Breakfast on your own
8:30am
- Morning briefing and depart.
9:00am
- Sedalia loop which includes two of the fastest and FLAT(!) sections of gravel in Bedford. We finish with an awesome 20 minute climb where you can put your power to the test. One of Hunter's favorite gravel loops!
1:00pm
-Yoga and Lunch- back at headquarters
2:00pm-5:30pm -Hunter Allen Group Power File Review &
Power Education-In depth look at new metrics in WKO5.
6:30pm
- Dinner as a group- Ya gotta have Italian at least once at Camp!
Sedalia, 37miles, 3-3.5 hours
*NOTE:Daily schedules and routes might change due to weather and other factors.
DAY 4
April 9
Hunter's Gravel Gran Fondo
Breakfast on your own
8:30am
- Morning briefing and depart:
9:00am
- Three climbs today, with TONS of gravel riding. The climb after lunch is a perfect gradient on a hidden gravel road for over an hour. which could be your Gravel FTP test! Afterward, we descend one of the coolest mountain gravel roads around. So much gravel today. You won't be asking for more!
4:00 pm
- back at headquarters, recovery shakes and high fives all around!
5:00pm
-Group Power File Analysis
6:30pm
- Dinner as a group-And ya gotta have Mexican at least once too!
Hunter's Gravel Gran Fondo-63 miles, 7 hours!
DAY 5
April 10
Breakthrough ride!
Breakfast on your own
8:30am
- Morning briefing
9:00am
- Bedford Loop - A perfect ride that is flatter(haha!) and allows us to put all the skills you learned together for a great ride.
1pm Lunch
- back at headquarters -Pizza!!!
2:00pm
- wrap up and head home -We'll stay as long as you want to do more power analysis and talk cycling!
Bedford Gravel Loop- 37miles, 3 hours
GENERAL INFORMATION
HAVE A QUESTION? WE ARE HERE TO HELP.
FTP Test on Gravel!
FTP tests on gravel are no joke--and we have the perfect climb that challenges even the best of Pros, National Champions, and CXers. Yep, people come from all over the world to challenge themselves on America's oldest gravel. Jennings Creek
Climb
is a switch-back monster--perfect to test your FTP. We'll do it!
And can you get that KOM? A special prize the Camper with the fastest time up the segment for the day!
And the views
from the top at 3,400? Magnificent! The climb ends at the iconic Peaks of Otter stretch of the Blue Ridge Parkway, and we'll fly by the Peaks themselves, which is the origin of the "peaks" in TrainingPeaks.
After our storming of Jennings Creek Climb, we'll do a screaming descent, high-fives all around, analyze your FTP data in WKO5 and TrainingPeaks--and EAT!
Hunter Interviewed by The Gravel Ride!
Hunter is interviewed by the Gravel Ride podcast about his entrance into the gravel world. How can you prepare for all those gravel left-hooks? What are the four big components to every big goal? How would the journey to DK200 work? How does personalized, one-on-one coaching work? Do gravel riders need to train different that other riders?
And so much more!
“I've been to many camps: CTS and Tom Danielson being the most notable. This was my second year at Hunter's camp, and it still exceeded my expectations. Always fun and a great way to put the season into high gear. The coaches and campers are always a joy to meet and spend time with. Worth the investment!”
BT
Fort Worth
“When I came to camp, I had never used a Garmin or a heart rate monitor, a cadence sensor, or a power meter. My average on a "good" ride was in the mid 15 range, my average cadence at camp was in the upper 60 to low 70 range and I climbed like a slug :) I don't expect miracles because I am a 57 year old woman who never did anything athletic until the age of 49 when I began cycling..but felt like I should have been getting better, since I had been riding for 8 years.
I came back from camp, bought a Garmin 1000,and started doing climbing, sprint, and cadence drills. I guess I worked the cadence the most, but I found that in just consciously keeping my cadence between 85-95, my climbing also got better. I am not, and probably never will be, a great climber but I am SO much better than I used to be. I'm never the first to the top (in a group) but I'm also not the LAST! "
CJ
Wisconsin
“The brochure can't even begin to describe the value of these camps. Hunter starts talking and instructing when we first arrive and doesn't stop until everyone leaves. I thought there would be much more down time like other camps--but thankfully there is not as long as Hunter is talking!”
TD
College Park
Read Esther C's totally unique camp experience.
Like many campers, Esther truly had a transformative experience at our last PCG Camp. Read what she had to say!
HunterALLEN
Founder and CEO
Legendary cycling coach, co-author of Training and Racing with a Power Meter
and Cutting-Edge Cycling, co-developer of TrainingPeaks, WKO+ software, and founder of Peaks Coaching Group.
Widely known as one of the top experts in the world in coaching endurance athletes using power meters, Hunter Allen's goal has always been to teach athletes how to maximize their training and racing potential through professional analysis of their power data. This goes hand in hand with his philosophy that a power meter helps athletes discover their true strengths and weaknesses, quantitatively assess their training improvements, and refine and maximize the focus of their training.
As a coach, Hunter makes sure to look at each athlete as a whole person. He excels at designing custom programs designed to maximize each rider's potential. He believes we are human beings working closely with other human beings, and it's important to him to work hard to find your strengths and weaknesses and to help you improve your skills, then develop a realistic plan that works for life. It is important that a coach learn as much as he can about you as an athlete and as a person in order to better develop a plan for success. He has now coached over 400 athletes and still learns something new from each one.
Experience an unparalleled coaching experience on the gorgeous gravel roads of Appalachia. And learn a thing or two about power.
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