Events/Cambrian Mountains Gravel Epic

Cambrian Mountains Gravel Epic

Gravel

Date

Sat, 12 Jun 2027

Venue

Llanidloes, mid-Wales

Countdown

June

Routes

Distances

50-119km

Climb, 119 km

2,600m

One of the wildest, most remote days in the Glorious Gravel calendar. 119km through the Cambrian Mountains, the empty spine of mid-Wales, starting and finishing in Llanidloes in mid-June.

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The course

The route

119km with roughly 2,600m of climbing, or a 50km short route, both starting and finishing in Llanidloes. Long forest and moorland ascents through remote mid-Wales, mostly fire road and moorland track rather than technical singletrack.

Weather

Mid-June, Llanidloes

16°CTypical high

9°CTypical low

3°CColdest in 20 years

51%Days with rain

Highs around 16°C and lows around 9°C, but it has dropped to 3°C. Rain on 51% of days.

NASA POWER data, 2006-2025, the week either side of race day

Training

Training for the Cambrian Mountains Gravel Epic

We don't do generic plans. We combine deep knowledge of this race's demands with your recent training, then build a plan with you that progresses as you do.

Beina integrates directly with your existing tools to understand your current fitness, and synchronise your planned sessions.

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What the Cambrians throw at you

Typical sessions

Long sustained mountain climbing, endurance ascents rather than short punches

Real remoteness: long gaps between feeds, patchy signal, carry for the quiet stretches

Full exposure on the high moorland, wind and wet with no shelter

Six to nine hours on the 119km, where pacing and fuelling matter more than peak power

What your weeks look like

Typical sessions

Progressive long ride building from 3hr toward 6 to 7hr on climbing gravel, mostly Z2

Event-pace long ride, 5 to 7hr over big climbs at target IF with full fuelling rehearsal

Sustained-climb endurance, 4 to 5hr with several 20 to 40min climbs at tempo

Remote, exposed rides in bad weather with full layers and spares, for self-sufficiency

Not a generic schedule

Typical sessions

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

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