Events/Cykelvasan

Cykelvasan

MTB

Date

Sat, 7 Aug 2027

Venue

Sälen → Mora, Dalarna, Sweden

Countdown

August

Distance

92km

Total climb

860m

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.

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The course

The route

Point-to-point from Salen to Mora across ~92km of non-technical forest doubletrack and gravel, with boardwalk sections over marshland. The course opens with an early ~2km, ~170m climb, then stays fast, flat-to-rolling and net-descending all the way to the Mora finish.

Weather

Early-August, Sälen → Mora

18°CTypical high

10°CTypical low

3°CColdest in 20 years

68%Days with rain

Highs around 18°C and lows around 10°C, but it has dropped to 3°C. Rain on 68% of days.

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

Training

Training for the Cykelvasan

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 day throws at you

Typical sessions

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

What your weeks look like

Typical sessions

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

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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