Training Resources

Gravel Training Tips

Training, pacing, skills and fueling for gravel races.

Choosing Which Races to Attend

Choosing Which Races to Attend

What are the hot gravel races for 2025 and what's the word on the street?  Sign-up season has already started (Mid-South) and coming up for most all the rest. ...

October 06, 2024
Gravel Gossip and Which Races to Choose Next Year

Gravel Gossip and Which Races to Choose Next Year

What are the hot gravel races for 2025? Build a gravel specific training plan for free for the first month ➡️ https://tinyurl.com/47rr7em4 Sign-up season has

October 4, 2024
Revamp Your Gravel Training With These Six Must-try Tips!

Revamp Your Gravel Training With These Six Must-try Tips!

Try the FasCat app free 💸 for one month (gravel training plan included! ) ➡️ visit our website here: https://tinyurl.com/52ayd4ts Gravel Training has changed

June 28, 2024
Unbound Gravel Race Recap with Lauren de Crescenzo and her Coach Elliott Baring

Unbound Gravel Race Recap with Lauren de Crescenzo and her Coach Elliott Baring

In this week's podcast you are going to hear Coach Elliott Baring have a coaching call with Lauren de Crescenzo fresh off her 9th place at Unbound Gravel. Co

June 4, 2024
Lauren de Crescenzo Unbound Training Details

Lauren de Crescenzo Unbound Training Details

The Unbound 200 is FasCat Athlete, Lauren de Crescenzo's A Race.  She's a two time winner and the course plays into her strengths. As her coach, we developed a...

May 24, 2024
Training for the Dust Bowl 100

Training for the Dust Bowl 100

Train for the Dust Bowl 100 with Coach Jake's 4 training tips that are specific to his knowledge of the race course: 1. Cornering 2. Group Riding 3. Anaerobic...

May 21, 2024
Training for the Dust Bowl 100 Gravel Race

Training for the Dust Bowl 100 Gravel Race

Coach Jake takes you out to the Dust Bowl 100, Indiana's longest gravel race, and gives his top 4 training tips to have a fun & fast race day. Coach Jake's to

May 20, 2024
Cycling Nutrition: How Much to Eat Before and During Your Gravel, Fondo and Training Rides

Cycling Nutrition: How Much to Eat Before and During Your Gravel, Fondo and Training Rides

In this podcast, we cover what, when and how much you need to eat, before and during your long gravel, fondo, and cycling training rides. Try the FasCat app,

May 17, 2024
Gravel Power Workout

Gravel Power Workout

Gravel racing has changed and it has gotten much more competitive. Five years ago, I made a “Gravel Watts” video where I said, ‘There are VO2 max intervals in...

May 10, 2024
You've Been Gravel Training All Wrong - Here's How To Do It Right!

You've Been Gravel Training All Wrong - Here's How To Do It Right!

Gravel Training is not the same as training for the road and neither should your power-based metrics. FTP is not as important nor is your peak 20 minute power.

May 2, 2024
How to ace your first gravel race (of the season, or even ever!)

How to ace your first gravel race (of the season, or even ever!)

Do you have your first gravel race coming up? Or perhaps you’ve already done a few in years past, but you’ve got your first gravel race of the season in your...

April 08, 2024
GRAVEL Skills to Practice and Develop

GRAVEL Skills to Practice and Develop

Gravel Skills that Coach Sierra Sims recommends athletes develop and practice. This video was inspired by the Belgian Waffle Ride Arizona - where it was techni

April 1, 2024
Gravel Skills: 5 Must Have's and How to Practice

Gravel Skills: 5 Must Have's and How to Practice

There are 5 Gravel Skills I recommend athletes develop and practice. Coach Sierra here, I just raced BWR Arizona where the course was loaded with singletrack,...

March 24, 2024
Lauren de Crescenzo: Mid-South Power Podcast

Lauren de Crescenzo: Mid-South Power Podcast

FasCat sponsored athlete and gravel privateer, Lauren De Crescenzo won The Mid South with a new course record, beating her own record by 7 minutes on an slower...

March 22, 2024
Mid South Gravel - How Lauren De Crescenzo Won with the help of her Coach Elliott Baring, Podcast

Mid South Gravel - How Lauren De Crescenzo Won with the help of her Coach Elliott Baring, Podcast

Lauren De Crescenzo won her third Mid South Gravel Race this past weekend (2024) in dominant fashion, setting a course record! She is coached by Elliott Baring

March 20, 2024
Gravel Training

Gravel Training

There are 4 parts to gravel training that I will describe in this training tip. Base Training Long Rides Riding a LOT Nutrition Many athletes will be relieved...

March 10, 2024
How to ride 1,200km in one go: Randonneuring with Lisa Charlebois

How to ride 1,200km in one go: Randonneuring with Lisa Charlebois

Ultras in gravel are becoming popular, with 150-, 200- and even 350-mile events, but how do you feel about racing for 745 miles, or 1,200 kilometers, ...

November 06, 2023
SBT GRVL 2023 tips and tricks podcast

SBT GRVL 2023 tips and tricks podcast

Steamboat Gravel is one of the biggest and best gravel races in the world, and we at FasCat are lucky enough to have this virtually in our backyard. This year,...

July 05, 2023