← All eventsKielder Triple Crown
Glorious Gravel's remote endurance day — 186km (also 114/57km) of relentless rolling hard-packed forest-road gravel in Kielder Forest, Northumberland. Big, exposed, self-sufficient. Fully signed, feed stations, no cut-offs, e-bikes welcome. Date approximate.
Gravel across the largest forest in England, in the far north of Northumberland. 186km of relentless rolling hard-pack, an estimated 3,500m of climbing, and no cols or flats to break the rhythm. Late August, fully signed, no cut-offs.
Kielder is genuinely remote. Signal is patchy, help is far, and long forest gaps sit between feed stations. You carry your own food, layers and spares, and you fix your own bike.
No cut-offs, e-bikes and 114km and 57km options make it welcoming. But the 186km is a genuine 9 to 13 hour day, decided by fuelling and pacing, not peak power.
Is Kielder Triple Crown for you?
- Riders who love long days in remote places. Signal is patchy and help is far, so the reward is the forest, the quiet and your own self-reliance.
- Steady grinders who meter their effort. The endless rollers punish surging and reward a rider who holds one sustainable tempo for hours.
- Self-sufficient riders comfortable fixing their own bike. A mechanical a long way from help ends the day, so mechanical confidence matters as much as fitness.
- Anyone building toward big gravel volume. With no cut-offs and 57km and 114km options, you can pick a route that matches where your longest rides actually are.
Training plan for Kielder Triple Crown
A training plan for Kielder Triple Crown 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.
- Countless forest-road climbs with no cols, no flats and no recovery, for 9 to 13 hours
- A rolling-resistance tax paid all day: gravel is 5 to 10% slower than the same effort on tarmac
- Exposure and remoteness, with high forest roads open to wind and cold a long way from help
- Fuelling under fatigue, where the back half is won by riders who ate on schedule from the start
- Progressive long ride: build from 3 hours to 8 or 9 hours on gravel, mostly Z2
- Tempo-in-long: 4 to 5 hour rides with 2 to 3 blocks of 20 to 30 min tempo on gravel
- Sweet spot gravel: 2 to 3 x 20 min at 88 to 93% FTP on rolling gravel climbs
- Full fuelling rehearsal at 70 to 100g carbs per hour, plus loaded self-sufficiency practice
- 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
