Leadville is 11 days out. If you're planning to pace it off your power meter, don't.

Every watt in your training file was earned with more oxygen than Leadville will give you. One of our athletes tested at 380 FTP at sea level and 335 up high. And that penalty moves with the heat, your hydration, and how many hours you're already into the day. There is no altitude FTP to pace off of.

Frank breaks down what to use instead: an RPE and talk test plan for every segment, the negative split that has you passing people on the way back from Columbine, and how to fuel a 7 to 12 hour day.

The rule for the first 60 miles is one sentence long, and most people break it in the first 20 minutes.

A trip like this raises real questions. How hard are the rides, really? Will I be fit enough? What's a day actually like, from the first coffee to the post-ride dinner? Who else is going to be there?

This Tuesday, August 4 at 2:00 PM EST, Frank Overton is hosting a live webinar to walk through the whole camp — the routes, the training built into each day, the villa, and how he tailors the week to every rider. Then he's opening the floor: bring your questions and he'll answer them on the spot, no sales pitch, just straight talk from the coach leading the trip.

Cyclocross is where the world's best sharpen their edge every winter. Six weeks of it builds a engine that carries into every season after. That's why the work starts in August, not September.

Give CoachCat your first race date and it works backward from there. Openers, race-pace intervals, anaerobic efforts, and skills sessions all land on the calendar in the right order, not squeezed in when you remember.