← All eventsFNLD GRVL
Finland's flagship gravel race and part of the GRVL Events family (with SBT and RADL) — fast, smooth forest and lakeside gravel around Lahti with prize money, ridden at road-race intensity. Date and figures approximate.
Finland's flagship gravel race, part of the GRVL Events family alongside SBT and RADL. There's prize money at the front, and the smooth forest gravel means the whole day is ridden at road-race intensity.
The Long route runs roughly 130km through the forests and lakes around Lahti, in early August. Only about 1,200m of climbing, so nothing lets up. The pace stays relentlessly high on rolling gravel.
This is not a survival ultra or a climbing race. It's won by holding the right group, covering the surges, and fuelling a hard four to five hours. Get gapped and it becomes a long day alone.
Who finishes, and how
Patterns like these, drawn straight from 2024 race data, are baked into how Beina coaches you for this event.
Is FNLD GRVL for you?
- Road racers moving across to gravel. The bunch tactics, drafting and sustained tempo will feel familiar, and the surface is smooth and fast rather than technical MTB.
- Riders with a strong, repeatable engine. A low-climbing course rewards a big sustained tempo more than pure climbing legs.
- Anyone comfortable in a fast bunch. Positioning and sheltering in the right group decides the day as much as raw fitness.
- Riders who want a genuine race, not a challenge ride. There's prize money up front and a competitive international field.
Training plan for FNLD GRVL
A training plan for FNLD GRVL 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.
- Sustained fast tempo held for four to five-plus hours, closer to a road race than a climbing day
- Repeated short efforts on forest-road rises, punched at threshold
- Bunch racing on fast gravel, where drafting and positioning decide who makes the front group
- Fuelling 60 to 90g of carbs an hour through a hard, carb-hungry effort
- Sustained tempo: 2 to 3 x 20-30 min at sweet spot or threshold for the relentless pace
- Rolling threshold repeats: 6 to 10 x 2-6 min on short rises with short recovery
- Over-unders: 3 to 4 x 8-12 min alternating below and above threshold for the bunch surges
- Long gravel rides building to 4-5 hours, plus race-simulation days rehearsing full fuelling
- 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
