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!
Let's Ride!
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.
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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!
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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!
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*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!
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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!
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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.
Arrivals:
Check-in for the camp begins at 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday Oct. 22, at 414 Jackson St, Bedford, VA 24523.
Please make arrangements to arrive at the airport BEFORE 11 a.m. on Tuesday the 12th if you will be needing transportation to our offices to facilitate the check in process.
Returns:
Leaving at 3:00 pm on Saturday, Oct 26, 2024.
If you need to utilize the pickup service, please book your flights accordingly.
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 & accommodations:
Lodging is NOT included in this camp.
We highly recommend you check out the AirBnB's in the area. There are many good ones here locally.
The Super 8 , just 10 minutes from our office is marginal, but it's a bed..... Others may want to experience the Peaks of Otter Lodge on the beautiful Blue Ridge Parkway, one of the multiple Airbnb’s in the area, or one of our many local bed and breakfasts. There are also a ton of accommodations in Lynchburg, Roanoke, and Smith Mountain Lake. Please keep in mind they are roughly 30 – 60 minutes away.
FALL CAMP: $1,225
ALUMNI CAMPERS: $50 discount
A $275 refundable deposit is due at time of registration. This deposit and total amount is refundable up to 30 days prior to the first day of camp. After which, you can move your payment to a future camp. You will be issued a final invoice 45 days before the first day of camp, and final payment is due 30 days before the commencement of your cycling camp.
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 .
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.
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.
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