The first question is, what’s your training camp for? For most amateur riders, if we’re being realistic, the primary purpose of a training camp is simple: to do more riding than your work/life schedule usually allows. Generally, it’s not about peaking for a specific event, but more about breaking up the winter and thereby gaining a psychological as well as a physical boost – increasing your motivation for the season ahead. “You should see your camp as a springboard into the next six-week spell of training,” says pro coach and sports scientist Jacob Tipper, “rather than imagining it as a silver bullet.
The next question is, when to go? The current period from early March to mid-April is the ideal time for a training camp, in Tipper’s view. “It makes sense to go while the weather is still wintry in the UK,” he says, speaking to me by phone from Benidorm. “By late April or May, camps become more expensive, and anyway by then the weather back home is improving. I’m in southern Spain now [in late February] and the weather is really nice and sunny.”
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