2019 FALL BEDFORD CYCLING CAMP
2019 Fall Blue Ridge Power Camp
Get ready to experience your newest passionwith Hunter Allen and GFNY NYC Winner Jill PattersonOctober 23-27, 2019
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"You can't win every race, but you can always nail your peak." -- 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 season 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!
The Countdown is on!
Your ultimate adventure in training, touring and learning.
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CAMP TYPE
- Loaner power meters provided, either pedals or wheels
- Endurance and mid-intensity paced rides
- 30-55 miles of daily riding with three pace groups
- Daily education seminars, power file analysis, yoga, massage, video analysis, bike fitting and advanced learning
COST
- $999 - Lodging Not Included
- Alumni Campers: $50 Discount
- Lunch and Dinner included, and breakfast on your own
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
- 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 16mph and above
- Cyclists who want USAC Continuing Education Units
- Road cyclists (MTB, CX and triathletes are welcome)
WEDNESDAY
Sneak a Ride!
4:00pm - 5:30pm
- Check-in at PCG world headquarters! Sneak in a pre-ride!
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 set up your TrainingPeaks WKO4 software, so you'll be ready to dig in to the details tomorrow.
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THURSDAY
Testing Day!
Breakfast on your own
8:30am - Morning Demo: Proper bike position
9:00am - Charlemont Loop (47 miles) with lots of short hills, 1 min, 5min tests, and pacelining practice.
Lunch - back at headquarters
2:00pm - Hunter Allen Group Power File Review
3:00pm - 5:00pm
- Power Education- Review of Power Training Principles
6:30pm - Dinner as a group- A perennial favorite- The Station!
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FRIDAY
FTP and Thunder Ridge!
Breakfast on your own
8:30am - Morning Demo: Pacing with Power
9:00am
- Thunder Ridge Power Climb (55 miles) featuring a 12.5 mile climb, perfect for a FTP test! Be ready as it's over an hour long with amazing views.
Lunch - back at headquarters
2:00pm - Hunter Allen Group Power File Review
3:00pm - 5:00pm - Power Education-In depth look at new metrics in WKO4.
6:30pm - Dinner as a group- Ya gotta have Italian at least once at Camp!
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*NOTE:Daily schedules and routes might change due to weather and other factors.
SATURDAY
Sprint Day!
Breakfast on your own
8:30am
- Morning demo: Sprint Technique and Position-Learn how to sprint!
9:00am - Sprint and Race Scenario Day (30 miles) -We teach you how to sprint and break into small teams for fun race finishing scenarios.
Lunch - back at headquarters
2:00pm
- Hunter Allen Group Power File Analysis and Review
3:00pm - 5:00pm - Power Education- How to plan your 2020 season!
6:30pm - Dinner as a group-And ya gotta have Mexican at least once too!
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SUNDAY
Fun Ride!
Breakfast on your own
8:30am - Morning demo: attack and bridge
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.
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!
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Cabin on Kira
There are numerous places to stay while on your adventure in Appalachia. (Please see information below.)
Experience the beautiful sanctuary of the Appalachian Mountains in this lovely restored rustic retreat.
Enjoy a fully equipped kitchen, central air and heat, screened back deck, private hiking trails, and elegant dining options close-by. Offering everything you need for the perfect nature-escape. Sit by the fireside, count the stars, and fall asleep to the sound of peace and quiet.
Relax, Retreat, and stay aWILD! See more on Facebook
Peaks of Otter Lodge
Peaks of Otter Lodge offers historic legacy among Blue Ridge Parkway hotels. Located at milepost 86 on the Parkway, the lodge is set into a beautiful bend of the iconic national scenic byway, with rooms providing views of tranquil Abbott Lake. Full service restaurant and bar! Visit website.
GENERAL INFORMATION
HAVE A QUESTION? WE ARE HERE TO HELP.
FTP Test on Legendary Thunder Ridge!
Pros, National Champions, Olympians and Amateurs from all over the world come here to challenge themselves on Thunder Ridge. It's roughly a 12.5 mile climb with grades from 5- to 8-percent. We'll do it!
And the views
from the top at 4,000'? Magnificent!
After our Storming Thunder Ridge post-ride yoga, Hunter and Jill will help analyze your FTP data in WKO4 and TrainingPeaks. Hunter will then review video footage
of everyone's climb and offer individual suggestions in terms of bike fit
and climbing strategies.
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.
“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
HunterALLEN
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.
Experience an unparalleled coaching experience in the gorgeous Blue Ridge Mountains. And learn a thing or two about power.
JillPATTERSON
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!
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