Events/Lancashire Gravel Epic

Lancashire Gravel Epic

Gravel
Date
Sat, 3 Jul 2027
Venue
Gisburn, Lancashire, England
Countdown
July
Routes
2
Distances
68-103km
Climb, 103 km
1,900m

A fully signed gravel sportive with feed stations, no cut-offs, and a medal and beer at the finish. 103km through the Forest of Bowland, an upland AONB, out and back from Gisburn on an early-July Saturday.

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The course

The route

103km with roughly 1,900m of climbing (unofficial estimate) from Gisburn into the Forest of Bowland: forest fire road, open fell tracks and hard-packed bridleway. A shorter 68km Standard route shares the same forest-and-fell character.

Weather

Early-July, Gisburn

18°CTypical high
11°CTypical low
6°CColdest in 20 years
62%Days with rain

Highs around 18°C and lows around 11°C, but it has dropped to 6°C. Rain on 62% of days.

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

Training for the Lancashire Gravel Epic

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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A lumpy forest-and-fell day
Typical sessions
Rolling forest fire road punctuated by sharper climbs onto the open fells
Mixed surface: friendly fire road giving way to rougher fell tracks and boggy moorland
Exposure on the open fells, where wind and changeable Bowland weather bite
Five to seven hours on the 103km, so fuelling matters more than raw power
What your weeks look like
Typical sessions
Progressive Long Ride: build from 2hr to 5hr on lumpy gravel, mostly Z2
Event-Pace Long: 4-5hr at target IF over lumpy terrain with full fuelling
Fell-Climb Efforts: 3-4x 5-12min at 82-90% FTP on gravel climbs
Tempo-in-Long: 3-4hr with 2-3x 15-25min tempo plus a fell climb
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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