Current focus

• Owner: Coach Luca
• Last updated: 2026-04-22

Current performance target

Ghost of the Gravel, 2026-06-27, is now a specific June performance objective, not just a benchmark race.

Working target

• Distance: 118 km women elite race
• Target result: about 4:35:00
• Historical reference points:
  • 2024: 5:01:40.6
  • 2023: 4:58:15.9

Current planning priorities

• Rebuild cleanly after Shanghai, but move quickly into race-directed gravel work
• Improve sustained climbing and sub-threshold pressure
• Improve gravel durability at 4.5 to 5 hour race cost
• Rehearse fueling and sodium strategy repeatedly in long gravel sessions
• Preserve enough top-end support to respond to terrain changes without turning the block into a VO2-focused build
• Keep recovery disciplined so the block remains absorbable with Hashimoto's in view

Active planning sources

• This week: athlete/rolling-7-day.md
• Current block: athlete/rolling-3-week.md
• Season context: athlete/planning/season-plan.md