A 12-week training plan to help build towards your first Fondo or gravel race. A few key workouts each week will test your high-intensity thresholds, with enough rest built in between that you will be able to recover in time to crush your next workout. Weekday rides are an hour or less, with a bit more time and flexibility on the weekends to help build your endurance and give your mind a break from the highly-structured weekday workouts. A threshold test at the beginning of this plan will help determine your training zones that we will use in your training in the lead-up to the race.

Zach Nehr is the head of ZNehr Coaching, LLC and a freelance writer for Velo, ENVE, Cyclingnews, and TrainingPeaks. He has coached and ridden for Team USA at multiple UCI World Championships, and he is a professional rider in eSport cycling. Zach has a degree in Exercise Science from Marian University-Indianapolis where he also studied Psychology. ZNehr Coaching takes on endurance athletes of all ages and abilities, and you can find Zach's Power Analysis articles published weekly in Velo.