Training plans for races you can't afford to mess up
These are the races that take years to get into, thousands to fund, and months of preparation to survive. A generic plan built for the distance won't cut it. We build plans around exactly what your race will ask of you.
→Built for the race. Not the distance.
Some races demand more than a training plan off the shelf.
Bucket-list races are expensive, demanding, and unforgiving of the wrong preparation. We build plans that take them seriously.
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The cost is real
Entry fees, travel, kit, and time off work. Bucket-list races carry a significant price tag before you even start training. A plan that doesn't respect those demands isn't worth what you paid to get to the start line.
DNF
The DNF rate is real
The races we build plans for turn back a meaningful share of the field every year. Not always the least fit athletes. Often the ones who trained for the wrong things — the right distance, the wrong demands.
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You only get one shot
Limited entries, long lotteries, years of planning. There is no casual attempt at a race like this. Your training should take the race as seriously as you do — built around what it actually demands of you.
The races our pathways are built around.
Each one demands something a generic training block won't prepare you for. Select your goal race to explore the full pathway.
Dragon's Back Race
United Kingdom
Marathon des Sables
Morocco
Montane Summer Spine
England
Lakeland 50
United Kingdom
Explore pathway →Dragon's Back Race
United Kingdom
Marathon des Sables
Morocco
Montane Summer Spine
England
Your plan should be written by someone who has run your race.
Anyone can write a training plan for a distance. Very few can write one for a specific race — because they haven't been there.
The nuance problem
Desert racing, multi-stage events, self-sufficiency races — each has demands that only reveal themselves on course. Heat management that fails at altitude. Pack weight that compounds differently over six stages. Night running that isn't just "run slower in the dark."
A plan written without that firsthand knowledge is working from theory. You're paying for guesswork with a professional wrapper.
The generic plan trap
Most training plans build for the distance. They increase weekly mileage, taper appropriately, and address broad fitness. None of that is wrong. But it won't teach your legs how to move efficiently in sand, won't prepare your shoulders for 250km with a pack, and won't tell you when to push and when to back off across six consecutive race days.
Distance fitness is necessary. It is not sufficient.
Built around the actual race
Every plan on our platform is built around the specific demands of that race — terrain, climate, pack load, self-sufficiency, stage structure. Not the distance. The race.
Written by finishers, not observers
The people writing these plans have crossed the finish line of the races they're writing for. The hard-won lessons are already in the plan — you won't discover the gap on race day.
Nothing left to chance
These races are expensive, rare, and unforgiving. A plan that doesn't account for what actually breaks athletes in your specific race isn't good preparation. It's wishful thinking with a training log.
Which race are you building toward?
Start with the goal. We'll show you exactly what it demands and how to get there.
Explore Goal Races