← All eventsSCOTT Gravel Rocks
Two days of racing where the clock only runs on seven secret segments. Everything in between is a social ride to a festival village.
Duncombe Park is a private estate in the North York Moors, and for one weekend it becomes a racecourse where most of the racing isn't racing at all.
Seven timed segments across two days. You don't know where they are until you hit them. Between them the clock stops and you ride at whatever pace suits, back to a festival village with food, beer and live music.
Two of those seven come on a Friday night stage, 10km in the dark on lights. The other five are spread across roughly 85km of daytime riding.
Your result is the sum of your segment times. Which means you can have a brilliant weekend and still go very hard, seven times.
The numbers
Enduro format borrowed from mountain biking and dropped onto gravel. Around 95km of riding across the weekend on estate and forest tracks, with untimed liaisons between the segments. There's a trail-running programme on the same weekend if someone in the house would rather run.
Is SCOTT Gravel Rocks for you?
- Riders with a punchy top end. Segments are short and hidden, so the day rewards repeatable hard efforts rather than one long steady grind.
- Anyone who wants to race without racing all day. The liaisons are social pace, so you get competitive riding and a weekend away in the same entry.
- Riders happy in the dark. The Friday night stage carries two of the seven timed segments, and that is a real skill.
- Families and mixed groups. There's a festival village and a running programme alongside the riding, so not everyone has to be on a gravel bike.
Training plan for SCOTT Gravel Rocks
A training plan for SCOTT Gravel Rocks 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.
- Seven timed segments, so seven separate hard efforts rather than one sustained day
- Segment locations kept secret, meaning you cannot pace to a known finish line
- A 10km night stage with two of the timed segments, ridden on lights
- Roughly 95km of racing across two days, with untimed liaisons to recover on
- Repeatable hard efforts: 5-8 x 3-5min near threshold with full recovery, the shape of a timed segment
- Back-to-back weekend rides so day two does not fall apart
- Night rides on gravel to make lights and low-light lines feel normal
- Race-effort openers off a long steady ride, to practise going hard on tired legs
- 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
