← All eventsProsecco Cycling Gran Fondo
Capped-2,500 hilly gran fondo through the UNESCO Prosecco hills of Valdobbiadene (~100-117km), defined by short savage vineyard walls like the Muro di Ca' del Poggio (~12.7%, ramps to 19%). Sells out.
The numbers lie. Around 100 to 117km and 1,700m of climbing sounds like a gentle day out in the vineyards. Packed into short walls that hit 19%, it is anything but.
Closed roads wind through the UNESCO Prosecco hills above Valdobbiadene on the last Sunday of September. The climbs come short and savage, one muro after another, never a long steady col.
The signature is the Muro di Ca' del Poggio, a Giro d'Italia wall at roughly 12.7% that ramps to 19%. Get the gearing right and pace the early walls, or the accumulation shells you.
Is Prosecco Cycling Gran Fondo for you?
- Punchy climbers with good power-to-weight. The walls hit 12 to 19%, so it rewards riders who fly on short steep ramps over steady diesel engines.
- Riders who can go again, and again. It is the fifth muro that decides the day, not the first, so repeatability matters more than one big effort.
- Disciplined pacers. The classic error is attacking Ca' del Poggio and the early walls, then coming apart across the accumulation of climbs.
- Anyone chasing a hard day without ultra distance. At around 100km it is quality over volume, big climbing without a six hour epic.
Training plan for Prosecco Cycling Gran Fondo
A training plan for Prosecco Cycling Gran Fondo 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.
- Short savage vineyard walls, several of them, at 12 to 19% rather than one long col
- Repeated 3 to 8 minute efforts above threshold, back to back with little recovery
- The Muro di Ca' del Poggio: around 1.1km at 12.7%, ramping to 19%
- Tight, sometimes wet vineyard descents between the climbs to stay sharp on
- Steep hill repeats: 6 to 8 by 3 to 4min on a 10 to 15% climb at 105 to 115% FTP
- Repeatability sets: 6 to 10 by 2 to 4min at VO2, short recovery, holding power across the whole set
- Over-unders: 4 to 5 by (2min at 105% / 3min at 90%) to surge and recover on the fly
- A 3.5 to 4.5hr hilly long ride, building to a race simulation with the muri ridden hard
- 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
