2023 Spring Blue Ridge
Power Road Camp
Get ready to experience your newest passion
with Hunter Allen and Rockin' PCG Team in
Bedford, Virginia
April 16-21, 2023
"Are you ready to ride over 300 miles, with over 20,000' of climbing, and over 1,200 TSS??? Yes! Cyclists of all levels--from fitness enthusiasts to racers--have been visiting my camps to train for over 25 years!"
-- Hunter
The "brochure" can't even come close to describing all that happens at a PCG 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. There's on-the-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!
The goal of this amazing camp is to focus on improving your ride skills and techniques as well as race tactics and strategy--while accurately developing your power profile in WKO and setting up your 2023-24 seasons according to your goals! The beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains are the perfect place for a fall cycling camp with awesome climbing opportunities, quiet country roads for race scenarios, and it’s the hometown for the Peaks Coaching Group Headquarters!
Welcome To Bedford
SUNDAY
April 16
2:30pm- 3:30pm - Check-in for all campers.
4:00 - 5:30 pm- 1.5-hour ride to loosen the legs and make sure your bike is dialed in.
6:00pm - Dinner- Beale's BBQ right behind the office!
7:30pm - 9:30pm -Intro to PCG staff, review of week's agenda and details.
100 HILLS?!?!?!?!
MONDAY
Breakfast on your own
8:30am - Morning Demo: Pace lining basics and how to sit on your bike
9:00am - Sedalia Loop (46 miles)
1-and-5-minute power tests
Lunch - back at headquarters.
2:00pm - Hunter Allen Group Power File Review
3:00pm - 5:00pm - Power Education
6:30pm - Dinner as a group
"The Hundred Hill Loop"
The White Mailbox that Changed Cycling Forever
Just as the small, innocuous supermarket on the road up to the Col de la Madone became the "official" starting point for so many professional cyclists to test themselves against the best, the White Mailbox in the Blue Ridge Mountains is the official starting point for so many of Hunter Allen's industry-smashing testing protocols.
It's a place of history, where Olympians, National- and World-Champions routinely visit to test themselves; both against themselves--and past champions. (The latest just stood on the podium at ITU's Worlds in Lausanne, Switzerland.)
It's the mail box that helped to define an entirely new science of training and racing that has been called the single most-influential development in cycling in the past 20 years.
Campers will get to know the White Mailbox very well--since part of this Fall's camp is to define your power profile through Hunter Allen's testing protocols. All in an effort to understand your phenotype and to help set up the training for your 2023 goals.
And at the top of the climb? The Peaks of Otter--first accurately measured by Thomas Jefferson in 1815 and from where the "Peaks" in "TrainingPeaks com" comes from.
THUNDER RIDGE
TUESDAY- Thunder Ridge Climb!
Breakfast on your own
8:30am - Morning Demo: Pacing with Power
9:00am - Thunder Ridge FTP Test Climb (55 miles). It's a 12.5-mile climb and over an hour for most. We will have 3 groups with one group being shuttled to base of climb
Lunch - back at headquarters
2:00pm - Hunter Allen Group Power File Review
3:00pm - 5:00pm - Power Education
6:30pm - Dinner as a group
Thunder Ridge
FTP Test on Legendary Thunder Ridge!
Sprint Day!
WEDNESDAY
Breakfast on your own
8:30am - Morning demo: Sprint Technique and Position
9:00am - Sprint and Race Scenario Day (30 miles). This promises to be your favorite day! So much fun!
Lunch - back at headquarters
2:00pm - Hunter Allen Group Power File Review
3:00pm - 5:00pm - Power Education
6:30pm - Dinner as a group
*NOTE:
Daily schedules and routes might change due to weather and other factors.
LONG DAY
THURSDAY
Breakfast on your own
8:00am - Morning demo: course overview and long day strategy. This loop has everything: two major climbs, rolling hills, great descending. The perfect "Kitchen Sink" loop. It's Hunter's favorite Long Day loop and maybe we'll even see who paced themselves well at the end for a spirited final 15miles push home! (93 miles total)
8:15am - "B" Group Start
8:45am - "A" Group Start
Lunch - on the road
4:00pm - High Fives all around!!! You did it. Hunter Allen Group Power File Review
6:30pm -
Dinner as a group
BREAKTHROUGH DAY!
FRIDAY
Breakfast on your own
8:30am - Morning demo: attack and bridge
9:00am - You'll be tired today, but that's why this day is so important to do. You'll start out with sore legs and not wanting to ride, but by the end of the ride, you'll be feeling good, and pushing the pace. Breakthrough your mental and physical limits today. Breakthrough Loop (45 miles)
Lunch - back at headquarters
2:00pm - wrap up and head home
GENERAL INFORMATION
HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT SPRING ROAD CAMP? WE ARE HERE TO HELP.
HunterALLEN
Founder and CEO
Experience an unparalleled coaching experience in the gorgeous Blue Ridge Mountains. And learn a thing or two about power.
Paul
OZIER
Peaks Coaching Group Elite Coach
Each athlete is an individual with varying abilities, skills, capabilities, qualities and un-tapped potential. Most athletes have undiscovered potential that is not realized until they have an unbiased, outside view of their talents. It is the 1 and 2% differences that add up to a wealth of improvements for the athlete. I look at each person, learn their talents and their limiters. Each person is a unique work in progress. It is an artform to learn and develop a personalized training structure, so the athlete grows into a well-rounded rider with an array of skills and abilities. Communicating with each other is a critical part of the success. I am an open book of experience, knowledge, and feedback. Sharing what I have experienced
and been educated with over the last 30 years, then seeing an athlete reach a new milestone with a smile on their face is what it is all about.
Whether it is Road Racing, Gravel Racing, Mountain Biking, Gran Fondos, or Zwift, Paul has the passion and experience to help you succeed with your goals.
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CJ
“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!”
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