Week 15 of the British Cycling Sportive Training Plans for beginners and week 10 for intermediate and advanced riders starts on Monday - download yours today.

BEGINNERS
The fifteenth of 25 weeks of prescribed training sessions designed to get you to your first sportive in the best possible shape. Riding 40 miles at the end of this week is your goal and your main objective during this ride is correct pacing. Use your heart rate zones and how you feel to avoid going off too hard and to pace hills correctly. Have confidence to follow wheels if you’re in a group and be disciplined about your eating and drinking.

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INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED
Week ten of the intermediate and advanced plans are a continuation of a foundation phase of training, suitable for riders of any discipline. Alongside prescribed rides in training zones, which include efforts at intensity, each week includes cross training and strength and conditioning sessions.

With some harder efforts and longer rides this week, it’s essential that you eat well, especially on the days when you’ve got a long ride. If you fail to fuel correctly before, during and after riding, you’ll be limiting your training gains. Can you ride no handed to put on or take off a jacket? Can you do a track stand? These aren’t just fancy tricks but are important skills to learn to become a more complete, rounded and efficient rider.

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By following the plans, British Cycling members will benefit from the same expert knowhow that has propelled Britain to the top of World cycling.

Developed by British Cycling’s expert coaches and using sessions ridden by the top riders; it’s a structured, scientific and proven route to cycling success which, together with advice from British Cycling’s Insight Zone, forms a powerful cycling knowledgebase.

FOLLOW THE PLAN
British Cycling members can start following our training plans at any time – match the plans to the date of your event and your ability level and see your cycling improve.

If you’re new to cycling or it has been a while since you were last in the saddle, the British Cycling Sportive Training Plan for beginners is the ideal way for you to train for and complete up to a 60-mile sportive. Using heart rate to gauge intensity, you’ll always be training at the right level and ensuring you’re riding and recovering optimally to make maximum fitness gains.

If you’re an experienced sportive rider, looking to take your cycling to the next level and maybe start hitting some gold standards, the British Cycling Sportive intermediate and advanced training plans are for you. With a less prescriptive, user-driven four-week rolling structure, you get expert coaching and proven British Cycling training sessions, but it’s more flexible and easier to mould round your target events. Whether you train using heart rate or power, you can guarantee every pedal stroke will be propelling you effectively towards your cycling goals.

Whether you’re a sportive regular or aspiring to take part in your first ever event, British Cycling’s sportive tips and advice pages have all the information you’ll need.

This week beginner plans will be working on basic endurance, coupled with strength that must be developed over time in order to become resilliant to the demands placed on the body over long periods.

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Can you ride no handed to put on or take off a jacket? Can you do a track stand? These aren’t just fancy tricks but are important skills to learn to become a more complete, rounded and efficient rider.

Access training plans here.