2020 SPRING BEDFORD CAMP

2020 Spring Blue Ridge 
Power Camp 

Get ready to experience your newest passion
with Hunter Allen and PCG Team
June 14-19, 2020

"Are you ready to ride over 300 miles, with over 23,000' of climbing, and over 1000 TSS??? Yes! Cyclists of all levels--from fitness enthusiasts to racers--have been visiting my camps to train for over 22 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 2020-21 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!
Book your Spot!

The health and safety of our campers and staff has always been our top priority. 

All 2020 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 the PCG offices. This can be a face shield, face mask or buff. A custom PCG Face Shield is included in your registration.
      Strict food service protocols. We’re working with our caterers and restaurants to ensure we are delivering your meals according to updated health guidelines. During rides, we will only allow the Support Driver to fill bottles and touch foods, while being gloved. This is something that we implemented 3 years ago at our camps and we’ll be continuing with these protocols now and in the future.
      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 2020 or 2021 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 2020 or 2021 PCG camp if you’re feeling sick or have been at risk of exposure to COVID-19.

      CAMP TYPE

      • Loaner power meters provided, either pedals or wheels
      • Endurance and mid-intensity paced rides
      • 30-92 miles of daily riding with three pace groups
      • Daily education seminars, power file analysis, yoga, massage, video analysis, basic bike-fitting tips and advanced learning

      COST

      • Double Occupancy: $1895
      • Single Occupancy: Additional $190
      • Optional Sunday Morning Skills Clinic $175.00 (see below)
      • Alumni Campers: $100 Discount
      • Early-Bird Discount $50.00 
      • Book By December 31,2019
      • PCG Classic Jersey Included!!!

      WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

      • 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 16mph and above
      • Road cyclists (MTB, CX and triathletes are welcome)

      SUNDAY

                 

      optional skills clinic (see below)

      9:00am - 10:00am - Check-in for Sunday optional skills clinic attendees

      11:00am - 12:30pm - First Session

      12:30pm - 1:30pm - Lunch

      1:30pm - 3:30pm - Second Session

      4:00pm - 5:30pm - Check-in for all other campers

      6:00pm - Dinner

      7:30pm - 9:30pm WK04


      MONDAY


      Breakfast on your own

      8:30am - Morning Demo: Proper bike position

      9:00am - Sedalia Loop (46 miles) 

      Lunch - back at headquarters

      2:00pm - Hunter Allen Group Power File Review

      3:00pm - 5:00pm - Power Education

      6:30pm - Dinner as a group


      VIEW DAY 1 ROUTE


      TUESDAY

      Breakfast on your own
      8:30am - Morning Demo: Pacing with Power
      9:00am - Thunder Ridge Power Climb (55 miles)
      Lunch - back at headquarters
      2:00pm - Hunter Allen Group Power File Review
      3:00pm - 5:00pm - Power Education
      6:30pm - Dinner as a group


      WEDNESDAY

      Breakfast on your own
      8:30am - Morning demo: Sprint Technique and Position
      9:00am - Sprint and Race Scenario Day (30 miles)
      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.
      THURSDAY

      Breakfast on your own
      8:30am - Morning demo: course overview and long day strategy
      Peaks of Otter Long Day and Race (93 miles) 
      8:45am - "B" Group Start
      9:15am - "A" Group Start 
      Lunch - on the road
      3:00pm - Hunter Allen Group Power File Review
      6:30pm - Dinner as a group


      FRIDAY

      Breakfast on your own
      8:30am - Morning demo: attack and bridge
      9:00am - Breakthrough Loop (45 miles)
      Lunch - back at headquarters
      2:00pm - wrap up and head home


      GENERAL INFORMATION

      HAVE A QUESTION?  WE ARE HERE TO HELP.

      • ARRIVAL/DEPARTURE

        Arrivals

        Optional Skills Clinic Attendees: Check-in for the camp begins at 4:00 p.m. on June 14, 2020 at 414 Jackson St, Bedford, VA 24523.

        Please make arrangements to arrive at the airport between 1 and 4 pm on June 14, 2020 if you will be needing transportation to our offices to facilitate the check in process.


        All Other Campers: Check-in for the camp begins at 4:00 p.m. on June 15,, 2020 at 414 Jackson St, Bedford, VA 24523. Please make arrangements to arrive at the airport between 1 and 4 pm on June 15, 2020 if you will be needing transportation to our offices to facilitate the check in process.  


        Returns:

        Leaving at 2:00 pm on last day of camp 


        If you need to utilize the pickup service, please book your flights accordingly.


        Air Travel

        For those traveling via air we recommend flying into Roanoke Regional Airport or Lynchburg Airport. Other flight options:


        Note:  If you choose to fly into the following airports, transportation to and from Camp (Bedford) will be on your own.


        Charlottesville Albermarle Airport (CHO) - Charlottesville, VA 98 miles                


        Piedmont Triad International Airport (PTI) - Greensboro, NC    108 miles               


        Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU) - Morrisville, NC 125 miles               


        Richmond International Airport (RIC) - Richmond, VA  145 miles 


        Dulles International Airport - (IAD) Dulles, VA 191 miles 


        Charlotte Douglass International Airport - (CLT) Charlotte, NC 207 miles  


        If you will not be renting a vehicle on your own, please be sure to send your travel itinerary to us so that we may arrange to pick you up.    

      • BIKE TRANSPORTATION

        Bike transportation:

        For those traveling by air you can either choose to ship your bike in advance or take with you in your travels.Our support team will assemble all shipped bikes in advance and be onsite to support those that are traveling with their bike.

        If shipping, please ship your bike to arrive 48 hours in advance of camp to ensure arrival. Please ship bikes to:

                        Peaks Coaching Group Headquarters 

                        414 Jackson Street

                        Bedford, VA 24523-3414

                        (540) 587-9025  

      • LODGING AND ACCOMMODATIONS

        Lodging & accommodations:

        Our campers will be staying at the Super 8, located just minutes from headquarters! The Super 8 has all you will need to make your stay pleasant: WiFi, continental breakfast, and more!

      • PAYMENT INFORMATION

        DOUBLE OCCUPANCY: $1895  

        SINGLE OCCUPANCY: Additional $190

        DAY CAMPERS: $225 per day (does not include dinner or lodging)

        ADDITIONAL NIGHTS LODGING: $100/night/person

        ALUMNI CAMPERS: $100 discount

        EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT: $50 Discount if booking by December 31,2019  


        A $500 refundable deposit is due at time of registration. This deposit is refundable up to 60 days prior to the first day of camp. You will be issued a final invoice 28 days before the first day of camp, and final payment is due 21 days before the commencement of your cycling camp; all such payments are final, non-refundable, and non-applicable. Peaks Coaching Group recommends travel insurance in case of emergency cancellation.

      • OPTIONAL SKILLS CLINIC

        The skills clinic on Sunday will be a day of improving your cycling skills. Too often cyclists just focus on fitness, but never practice their handling, cornering and pack riding skills. We are going to take a day and teach you the tricks to make you a better cyclist. A safer cyclist. We’ll start at 9am, work on drills in the morning, then break for lunch, and in the afternoon, we’ll work on pacelining skills and ride up the mountain to practice descending drills. It will be a full day and one that will make you an even better cyclist!


        Curriculum

        Become comfortable with other riders around you:

        • Shoulder to shoulder riding in the grass
        • Wheel touches in the grass
        • Bumping other riders in the grass. 
        • Balancing drills

        Cornering skills- We’ll goto an abandoned parking lot and practice cornering. 

        • Steering
        • Countersteering
        • Cornering with cones and designated lines. 
        • Lead-Follow cornering
        • Slalom skills
        • Road hazard avoidance skills

        Paceline skills- We’ll head out on the road and work on some basic pacelines. 

        • How to position yourself
        • Where to ride and save the most energy
        • How to ride with stronger riders and not get dropped. 
        • What to do if you are the stronger rider
        • How to deal with crosswinds. 

      Read Esther C's totally unique camp experience.

      Like many campers, Esther truly had a transformative experience at our last Fall Foliage Power Camp. Read what she had to say!
      “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

      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 2020 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.

      Jill
      PATTERSON

      Peaks Coaching Group Associate Coach


      In late 2016, after over ten years of living in Japan, Jill left her team and moved back to the US. In early 2017 she joined Artemis, a women’s race team, and to present-day have been racing criteriums, road races and gran fondos on the East Coast. As well as competing and racing, she loves to do group rides and events such as centuries. She has immersed herself in the Washington, D.C. cycling community by joining various group rides of various styles and levels, in various locations in and outside of the city. By riding with and getting to know a wide range of cyclists, she has a good understanding and appreciation for the diversity of athletes.

      As a coach Jill wants to share her knowledge and love of cycling with all types of cyclists: from the weekend warrior, to the fitness enthusiasts, the racers, the endurance athletes, and more!

      BREAKING NEWS: JILL WINS HISTORIC WOMEN'S RACE FOR GFNY NYC 2019!

      READ MORE ABOUT JILL'S GFNY HISTORIC WIN SELENE YEAGER INTERVIEWS COACH JILL ON PIKES PEAK KOM

      Experience an unparalleled coaching experience in the gorgeous Blue Ridge Mountains.  
      And learn a thing or two about power.

      Hunter
      ALLEN

      President 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.

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