← All eventsLiège-Bastogne-Liège Challenge
Ardennes climbing cyclosportif on the oldest Monument's course, day before the pros. 80/163/250km; the full 'La Doyenne' packs ~4,400m over ~10-11 short steep côtes (La Redoute etc.). Durability + repeated-threshold day. ~7,000-8,000 riders. Next edition 24 Apr 2027 (confirmed).
Ride La Doyenne, the oldest of cycling's Monuments, on the same course the pros race the very next day. The full route covers roughly 250km through the Ardennes with about 4,400m of climbing, starting near Liège in late April.
No cobbles, no high cols. Just an unrelenting sequence of short, steep tarmac côtes through the wooded Ardennes hills, with fast, technical descents between them.
Ten or eleven sharp climbs, and the famous ones, La Redoute and Roche-aux-Faucons, land in the last 40km on tired legs. The day is won by whoever rationed the early côtes.
Who finishes, and how
Patterns like these, drawn straight from 2025 race data, are baked into how Beina coaches you for this event.
Is Liège-Bastogne-Liège Challenge for you?
- Riders chasing a bucket-list Monument. Riding the exact La Doyenne course the day before the pros is the whole draw.
- Durable diesel engines who keep going for hours. A 250km day with 4,400m rewards long-ride endurance, not a big sprint.
- Disciplined pacers. The finale climbs dismantle anyone who spent themselves on the early côtes, so this rewards riders who ration the effort.
- Confident descenders. The fast wooded Ardennes descents between climbs are real distance to carry speed and recover on.
Training plan for Liège-Bastogne-Liège Challenge
A training plan for Liège-Bastogne-Liège Challenge 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.
- Around 4,400m of climbing over ten to eleven short, steep côtes, none of them long but brutal in sum
- The decisive climbs, La Redoute and Roche-aux-Faucons, come in the final 40km on tired legs
- Nine to twelve hours in the saddle on the full route, a genuine durability test
- Fast, technical wooded descents between every climb, often in changeable late-April weather
- Côte repeats: 4 to 6 x 8-12min at 90-100% FTP on a hill, holding power on the last rep
- Long climb under fatigue: save a hard 10min climb for the end of a 4hr ride
- Big climbing days building to 5-7hr with 3,000-4,000m, climbs held at tempo and threshold
- Rationing long rides: early climbs easy, hard efforts only in the final third
- 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
