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The final race of the Life Time Grand Prix — ~100mi/~2,900m of fast, chunky Ozark gravel with sharp tyre-shredding flint. Date approximate.
The Life Time Grand Prix finale, and a race decided as much by your tyres as your legs. 100 miles of fast Ozark gravel out of Bentonville, laced with sharp flint that cuts sidewalls without warning.
Around 9,500 ft of punchy climbing over relentless rollers. Not one big col, just short steep drags that stack up all day until the legs are gone.
It's fast, chunky and unforgiving. The finishers ride smart lines, keep their tyres intact and are still fuelling when the late rollers bite. A Little Sugar 50 gives a shorter way in.
Is Big Sugar Gravel for you?
- Riders with punchy, repeatable power who can hold effort over endless short rollers rather than grind one long climb.
- Racers comfortable in a fast bunch, sitting in and covering moves instead of riding solo off the front.
- Anyone who treats kit as strategy: tough tubeless tyres, disciplined line choice and a real repair kit for the flint.
- Riders ready for a genuine 5 to 8 hour day who can eat and drink at racing pace without dropping off.
Training plan for Big Sugar Gravel
A training plan for Big Sugar Gravel isn't a generic base build. Beina reads the event's exact demands, looks at your specific profile and the time you actually have, and maps a highly adapted plan to the start line.
- Around 9,500 ft of short steep rollers over 100 miles, cumulatively brutal on the legs
- Sharp Ozark flint everywhere, the number-one cause of a cut tyre and a lost race
- A fast, tactical front group where you draft, cover moves and eat at pace
- A 5 to 8 hour day that punishes anyone who forgets to fuel early
- Progressive fast-gravel long rides building from 3hr to 5-6hr on rolling terrain
- Roller repeats: 15-25x 30sec to 2min punches on rolling ground
- Sweet-spot gravel blocks, 2-3x 15-20min, for rolling durability
- Group-ride and tyre/line practice on chunky rock, eating and drinking at pace
- Built from your current fitness and the time you actually have
- Adapts every week as Beina learns how you respond
- Syncs your sessions straight to Garmin and Wahoo
- One clear next session, never a wall of spreadsheet
