2024 Grandmasters (65+) Blue Ridge Fall Power Road Camp
Get ready to explore the fall on the Blue Ridge Parkway
with Hunter Allen and PCG Team!
Oct 22-26, 2024
"Let's continue to make you faster and stronger."
-- Hunter
This camp is for 65+ "Grandmaster" athletes only. Just because you are over 65 doesn't mean you can't improve and feel stronger!
This camp is for you Grandmasters!
We will focus on the key things that you need in order to continue improving and recovering quickly.
This camp won't be with a bunch of "20-something racers", it will be with riders your age, your speed and with your recovery powers! And....We will have 65+ year old coaches to work with you as well!
The "brochure" can't even come close to describing all that happens at a PCG Camp. But let's try anyway! There's WKO5 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 Grandmaster camp is to focus on improving your overall fitness, learning what it takes to continue to improve as you age, have fun, ride with others your own age and learn! You will hone your ride skills and techniques and even some race tactics and strategy--while accurately developing your power profile in WKO and setting up for your 2024 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!
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
- $1,225 - Lodging Not Included
- $275 - Deposit fully refundable 30 days out from camp.
- Alumni Campers: $50 Discount
- Lunch and Dinner included, and breakfast on your own
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
- Grandmaster riders over the age of 65.
- 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
- Road cyclists (Gravel, MTB, CX and triathletes are welcome)
DAY 1- Tuesday
Check in!
2:00pm - 2:30pm - Check-in at PCG world headquarters!
3:00pm-5:00pm- Shakedown 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 make sure you are set up with your TrainingPeaks Software and Garmin/Wahoo screens.
SEE ROUTE
Day 2- Wednesday
Protocol Testing
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!
SEE ROUTE
Day 3- Thursday
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 WKO5.
6:30pm - Dinner as a group- Ya gotta have Italian at least once at Camp!
SEE
ROUTE
*NOTE:Daily schedules and routes might change due to weather and other factors.
Day 4- Friday
Sprint and Race 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 2024 season!
6:30pm - Dinner as a group-And ya gotta have Mexican at least once too!
SEE ROUTE
Day 5- Saturday
Put it all together!
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!
SEE ROUTE
GENERAL INFORMATION
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 will help analyze your FTP data in WKO5 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 2024 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.
Anne Marie
EC
Bob S.
Hunter
ALLEN
CEO and Founder
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.
Rickey Wray
Wilson
Grandmasters Coach and Grandmaster
You name it, Rickey's done it. RAAM. Done it. Twice. Road racing. Done it. Gravel Racing. Done it....and on and on.... He's been riding and competing for over 30 years and has been coaching for the last 10. He's an incredible Grandmaster coach because he is one. He's an incredible Grandmaster coach with tremendous coaching and cycling experience.
He has been coaching at PCG camps now for 7 years and knows exactly what makes a great camp. He'll be here teaching, coaching and working with you to get the maximum out of your potential. Still improving....that's his philosophy.
Experience an unparalleled coaching experience in the gorgeous Blue Ridge Mountains. And learn a thing or two about power.
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