← All eventsCykelvasan
~92km point-to-point MTB marathon, Sälen → Mora, Sweden, along the historic Vasaloppet ski trail. Modest ~860m climbing, net-descending, largely non-technical forest gravel — a fast-rolling endurance event. ~13,000+ riders, the Nordics' biggest MTB race. Next edition ~7 Aug 2027 (approximate).
Forget climbing and rock gardens. \n\nWith just ~860m of climbing over a net-descending course, this is a fitness and pacing race, not a bike-handling one. \n\nAt ~13,000 riders, it's the Nordics' biggest MTB race. Flat and fast sounds easy.
It isn't: three to six hours holding speed in a working group is a long, hard day.
Is Cykelvasan for you?
- Roadies and gravel riders. Cykelvasan is the most road-race-like event of the MTB marathons, so a strong sustained-tempo engine transfers almost directly.
- Riders who can sit in and work a group. Drafting on this fast doubletrack saves 20 to 40 minutes, so bunch skills matter more than bike handling.
- Steady tempo riders who fuel well. High average speed burns real energy across three to six hours, and the strongest riders are the ones who keep eating.
- Anyone who dislikes technical terrain. No singletrack, no rock, just firm fast gravel through bright pine forest.
Training plan for Cykelvasan
A training plan for Cykelvasan 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.
- An early ~2km, ~170m climb straight off a congested wave start, then position sorts itself out
- Three to six hours of sustained sub-threshold tempo on fast, flat-to-rolling gravel
- Constant group riding and drafting, where sitting solo bleeds serious time
- High carb demand: fast average speed means fuelling at 60 to 90g of carbs an hour
- 2x20min at threshold and long sweet-spot blocks of 3x20-25min to build tempo durability
- Chain-gang bunch rides of two to three hours, practising through-and-off and surges
- Over-unders (5x 2min hard, 3min steady) for the first hill and rolling accelerations
- Race-pace long rides of four to five hours on gravel, rehearsing pace and fuelling at speed
- 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
