Commit To Being A Stronger, Smarter and More Confident Rider!
What is Rise & Ride In the Vineyards Training Camp?
The Rise & Ride In the Vineyard Gravel Camp is an invite-only event. Crafted for the Eliel Factory Team and others on the Eliel squad, this camp will elevate your fitness and make 2023 your best season yet!
At Big Wheel Coaching, we believe your cycling skills are of equal importance - if not more important - than how powerfully you ride your bike. That’s why this camp features a robust coaching staff dedicated to helping you refine your gravel acumen while facilitating a solid training block that is certain to be the cornerstone of your season.
More Than 4-Great Rides, “Rise & Ride In the Vineyards” Has An Additional Focus:
To Sharpen Your Riding Skill While You Build Your Fitness.
Expect To Deepen Your Knowledge, Skill, & Ability In These Four Areas:
#1. Maintaining Momentum & Technical Skill
Peddling hard isn’t the only way to ride faster…
Being fast is as much about preserving the speed you already built, as it is about having the motor to get up to speed in the first place.
Preserving momentum on a rigid-framed bike with skinny tires on technical trails is easier said than done. At camp, we’ll teach you to go faster for less effort and to do so while maintaining composure and control.
Rain ruts across the trai?
We’ll hop’em!
Off-camber turns on “kitty-litter” hardpack?
We’ll show you the best line and teach you the proper braking to maintain your speed!
How about steep technical uphills, the ones with hair-pin turns or loose rocks and v-ditches like the ones you see at The Rock Cobbler?
We’ll help you find the balance between high and low-cadences approaches to help you “power through” or “spin-up” challenging climbs.
What about “Brake Bias”?
Are you familiar with it? And are you confident modulating front and rear brakes independently of each other in order to give you more control of your bike and more confidence in the turns?
You guessed it, we’ll cover that at camp too!
Technical skills and momentum mastery are important arrows in your Event Day “quiver” that many riders come up short on when it matters most. But not you!
Our campers will be dialed in early season events and beyond!
#2. Energy Conservation & Pacing
Conquering epic gravel events demands everything you have. A deep well of fitness, a sophisticated pacing strategy, and surgical precision of the “matches” you burn.
Getting through a four-day training camp is much like an epic gravel event. It will require savvy, proper pacing on the climbs, a plan of attack for each gravel sector, and knowing where you can save energy or fuel-up without penalty.
At Rise & Ride in the Vineyards, we will cover each of these topics to help you kick off 2023 with more than just fitness. You will develop a broad repertoire of pacing strategies to help you navigate any distance event you wish to tackle!
#3. The Power Of A Team
Sharing “the work” out on course is more than just a fun way to spend a day in the saddle with friends. It is a necessity in long and short-course racing alike.
As a member of the Eliel Factory Team, you have teammates at every race you go to across the nation. At camp we are going to transform your understanding of what being a teammate means and how positively it can impact your ability to ride faster, stronger, and more successfully at every event you do.
At Rise and Ride In The Vineyards, we are shaping you to be a weapon on the Eliel team. A “Good Wheel” that can take a pull, call out a hole or hazard on the trail, and harness the powers of cohesion and drafting to efficiently complete the monumental events on the gravel calendar.
The road to your Personal Best, in many cases, runs in parallel to your teammates. The sooner we start working together, the sooner we can be toasting to a job well done at the finish!
#4. Pre Planned Fuel & Fun
You work hard and play hard, that’s why you are part of the Eliel Factory Team!
We believe you should reward yourself for the effort you put in by experiencing all that the Temecula-Valley Wine Country has to offer.
We have partnered with renowned wine-makers, vineyards, and restaurants to offer you pre-planned breakfasts and box lunches with quality food to fuel you up for and recover from each day’s ride.
READY TO JOIN OUR TRAINING CAMP?
RIDE ONLY or FUEL UP & RIDE!
OPTION 1: 4 DAY RIDE
ADD'L RIDE OPTIONS:
OPTION 2: FUEL UP AND RIDE BUNDLE
Have coffee, a light breakfast, and box lunch waiting for you everyday of your ride versus having to pre-pack, plan and lug food every day.
Each day at our meeting place there will be fresh coffee, pastries, juices and more to fuel you up for your ride.
The minute you get off the bike, walk in and grab delicious box lunches so you can fuel back up for an afternoon of fun!
Oh, and did we mention that on January 1st after your box lunch, there is a Wine Tasting Ticket for Leoness Cellars (our host facility on Jan. 1st) where you can go in and enjoy 5 tastings in a private Barrel Room just for our riders!
Plus, you'll get a private Taste Of Temecula Wine Tasting at La Fata Estate Vineyards to try a variety of Temecula Wines while you are here!
Includes: 4 Breakfast, 4 Lunches & 2 Wine Tasting Tickets
Dinner is on your own each night.
*Camp Itinerary*
