Build to race day on a base of circuit conditioning and prehab-focused lifting.

Target Reveille Peak Ranch — 20-mile loop, 14 NOV 2026

A weekly microcycle: conditioning circuits Mon/Thu — upper-biased Monday, lower-biased Thursday, each opened by a 30-minute bike — prehab lift Tue/Fri, Wednesday left open for the week's midweek intensity or R&R, the Zone 2 endurance ride Saturday, a second ride Sunday — bike park most weeks, but tempo or an easy spin when the week calls for it (see the by-week table).

Phases

Base (wk 1–5, 29JUN–02AUG) — settle the rhythm; long ride ramps 60 → 105 min.
Build (wk 6–12, 03AUG–20SEP) — add midweek VO2 (wk 7 on) + Sunday tempo; long ride to 2:45.
Peak — "make it look like the race" (wk 13–18, 21SEP–01NOV) — race-pace efforts, threshold / over-unders, and the RPR pre-ride recon.
Taper (wk 19–20, 02–14NOV) — sharpen and shed fatigue into race day.