← All eventsDartmoor Classic
110mi / ~2,750m moorland sportive from Newton Abbot, Devon across Dartmoor. Relentlessly lumpy — 25% ramps on Holne Chase, the long Haytor drag, exposed high moor. Medio/Piccolo options. ~3,000 riders, sells out. Next edition ~late June 2027 (approximate).
It isn't the distance that undoes riders here, it's the climbing. The Grande packs 9,000ft into 110 miles of Dartmoor, with no single giant col. Just steep ramp after steep ramp, all day.
Holne Chase kicks up to 25%, a genuine leg-breaker. Haytor is a long five-mile moorland drag. Grimspound is the timed KOM. Between them, high open moor, fully exposed to wind and June heat.
Shorter Medio and Piccolo routes give an honest way in. But take on the Grande and it's a real endurance day. Gear low and pace it, or Dartmoor eats your legs before the finish.
Who finishes, and how
Patterns like these, drawn straight from 2025 race data, are baked into how Beina coaches you for this event.
Is Dartmoor Classic for you?
- Climbers who ration their effort. The course stacks hill after hill with no flat to recover on, so it rewards pacing over attacking the first ramp.
- Riders willing to gear low. Fit a big cassette, spin the steep bits instead of grinding to a stall, and you reach the hard miles with legs left.
- First-timers who choose their route honestly. The shorter Medio and Piccolo give a real way in before you commit to the full Grande.
- Riders after a big summer moorland day who will put in long hilly miles to earn it.
Training plan for Dartmoor Classic
A training plan for Dartmoor Classic 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.
- Ramps above 20% where momentum disappears fast and stalls the unprepared
- Climb after climb with no sustained flat to recover on
- Six to nine hours on the Grande, a genuine durability test
- Fast, technical descents on mixed granite roads that get greasy in the wet
- 2x20 sweet spot at 88-94% FTP, the core threshold work
- Steep-ramp reps: 6-8 x 60-90s on a 15%-plus ramp, spinning the gear
- Threshold climb repeats: 4x8-10min at FTP to build moorland legs
- Long hilly endurance rides, building toward five to seven hours for the Grande
- 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
