EXAMPLE ITINERARY
Most of our time is spent on the bike on quiet country roads with lots, and lots of hills. With our excellent leader/rider ratios, 4 leaders to a max of 11 athletes, no-one is ever dropped and we can cater for everyone. Some rides we stop for coffee, and or ice cream, some rides take in lunch. It all depends on where we're going, but they staggered at the start to account for pace and distance so that we can meet up at lunchtime.
In the little time left you will have a sea swim or two, 2-3 runs, flat and lumpy and including a brick, and a regular stretch & mobilise session. After all of that Sandra is happy to do a 1-1 swim coaching session for anyone who wants one.
Bike rides will include tips on key skills eg. cornering, descending, ascending. Riders are grouped according to distance/pace and there are shorter ride options on the long ride days -
FRI 12th
TRAVEL
SEA SWIM
RUN
Friday is our travel day plus first day of training
Athletes are collected from Pisa airport around 12pm, unless hiring their own car, before a group transfer. We head to the house via the coast allowing a stop for a sea swim and a short run
Group supper by AHT to get to know each other and sort out initial bike groups
SAT 13th
MED RIDE
STRETCH & CORE
Once bikes have arrived or been built, then we head out on an introductory ride to the medieval town of Massa Marritimma for a late lunch. Ride departures are staggered to allow us to arrive in MM together for lunch
68k & 1250m
73k & 1350m
Self catered supper or local restaurant
SUN 14th
A long lumpy ride on offer today to Castellina in Chianti or San Gimignano
There will be shorter options as well but it will be the 'long' ride of the camp
143k & 1900m
156k & 2400m
127k & 1700m
plus shorter rides available
Self catered supper or local restaurant
LONG RIDE
STRETCH
MON 15th
SEA SWIM
TEMPO RUN
Off the bikes today for a trip to the coast and a sea swim - distance of choice, followed by a flat, fast tempo run. Today we have lunch on the sea front then home for a free afternoon
If anyone absolutely wants to ride we can provide a route for a short unaccompanied ride
Self catered supper or local restaurant
