← All eventsTweedLove Enduro
Flagship Tweed Valley timed-stage MTB enduro (Glentress/Innerleithen) — result is combined timed descent-stage times, liaisons untimed; decided by descent skill and repeatability, not FTP. Distance/elevation/stages and date are approximate estimates.
Your entire result comes from roughly 10 to 25 minutes of racing. The rest of the ~40km Tweed Valley loop is untimed liaison climbing between five or six timed descent stages.
Those stages are steep, loamy, rooty and rocky, some of the best and hardest descending in the UK. Only your combined stage times count.
So it is a skills day dressed as an endurance day. You climb around 1,500m of forest fireroad just to reach descents won on grip, line choice and nerve, not on power.
Who finishes, and how
Patterns like these, drawn straight from 2024 race data, are baked into how Beina coaches you for this event.
Is TweedLove Enduro for you?
- Confident steep-terrain descenders who prefer natural loam and roots to smooth trail-centre flow.
- Riders who can go near-max on a descent then do it again clean, five or six times, on tired arms.
- Fit trail riders happy to climb 1,500m of liaison just to race a handful of timed descents.
- Enduro racers who know power does not win here. Grip, line choice and brake control do.
Training plan for TweedLove Enduro
A training plan for TweedLove Enduro 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.
- Five or six timed descent stages down steep, loamy, rooty, rocky natural terrain.
- Only your combined stage times count, so every second is won on the descents, not the climbs.
- Around 1,500m of untimed liaison climbing to link the stages across a 5 to 8 hour day.
- The repeatability test: descend the last stage as fast and clean as the first, on blown hands.
- Steep-loam skills: 60 to 120 min on natural loamy, rooty, rocky descents, every week.
- Repeated-descent sessions: 5 to 8 near-max descents with easy liaison-pace climbs between.
- Skills under fatigue: 30 to 45 min of steep descending after a 3hr liaison-style ride.
- Long liaison rides building to 5 to 6hr off-road with big climbing, plus upper-body and core work.
- 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
