Costa Brava-Girona Long Weekender Training Camp
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Location
Costa Brava - Girona
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Duration
4 nights / 5 days
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Length
From 20km to 110km daily
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Climb
Up to 3,300m
6 Mar 2024 - 10 Mar 2024
Finding inspiration to ride during colder temperatures tough? Well Grand Tours Project has a solution for you! A fabulous hotel perched on cliffs overlooking the sea, superb food, an indoor spa with sea views after each daily training session.
Girona, a cyclist mecca, is nearby and a wealth of riding terrain into and over mountains, along rolling open farm land and of course the stunning coastal routes of Costa Brava.
Our Costa Brava Training Camp will be led by a former professional cyclist and will encompass energy nutrition, the importance of pre warm ups, appropriate cycle kit for cool weather riding, climbing and descending techniques, flat terrain training, and the etiquette and skills required for peloton and echelon riding, and more.
We can't promise you summer temperatures, but we can deliver invigorating and inspiring rides in all weather conditions, and modern luxury after a day of training.
Total price: From €2,590
- Expert cycle training advice
- Fully supported and guided cycling
- 3 full days of cycle training with professional guide
- Visit Girona
- Beautiful Costa Brava accommodation
- Local Mediterranean cuisine
- Three access visits to the hotel Spa included
- Bike rental available
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Day 1
Bienvenido a la Costa Brava
20km / 350m
Parador de AiguablavaWe will collect you from Girona or Barcelona Airport at a predetermined time and take you to our amazing hotel. After check in, we’ll have time to reassemble and fit bikes before heading off for a ride along the coast.
Back at the hotel you can relax and enjoy the views. At drinks we will discuss the weather and plans for the next few days and then enjoy our first dinner at the hotel’s gastronomic restaurant.
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Day 2
Begur - Girona
75km / 370m
Parador de AiguablavaBefore breakfast, we will have a gym and stretching session, where you will learn the important cyclist exercises - warm up, workout, cool down, stretch and resting your body.
We will ride to Begur and onto the rolling countryside to Girona. The focus will be on specific time trial techniques, team structure, riding in flat terrain and possibly against the wind. We will take an opportunity to teach you what to do in an "emergency moment" when the echelon is in race mode.
In Girona, we’ll change into warm clothes and head off to a local restaurant haunted by cycling aficionados, followed by the requisite cycle shop visits before transferring back to our hotel. The Hotel Spa is available to you to relax and enjoy before dinner.
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Day 3
Via Els Angels Route
80km / 1250m
Parador de AiguablavaOur day of climbing and descending today. Taking advantage of the hilly terrain, we will teach you some technical and metabolic climbing exercises and practice our descending techniques discussed the previous evening. Learning and gaining confidence on long straight down and hairpins and knowing how to take corners is safer for you...and fun!
The support van will be there to collect you on the last descent and transfer you back to the hotel. The Hotel Spa is waiting for you!
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Day 4
Coast and Mountains
100km / 1400m
Parador de AiguablavaToday is the day to put into practice the training of the previous days. A long and beautiful coastal ride in echelon formation with some mountain climbing and descending thrown in! We’ll find a lovely lunch spot before we continue on the route back to Sant Feliu de Guixols and our transfer to the hotel.
On returning to the hotel, you deserve a good soak in the spa and today may be an opportune time to book a massage!
Our final dinner tonight. Should be a time to enjoy yourself.
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Hygiene With international travel regulations causing continued uncertainty, we have made it our priority to implement COVID-19 hygiene procedures to ensure you a safe and worry-free holiday. Here's what you can expect when you choose to travel with Grand Tours Project.
Hygiene Consideration on your trip:
- Hand sanitizer will be available at all times and located in convenient areas to ensure the possibility of regular disinfecting and washing of hands.
- All guests and staff will be provided with face masks that must be worn where necessary. (for example in vehicles, where a distance of 1.5m can not be obtained between guests etc.)
- The anti-bacterial spray will also be readily available to be used to sanitise physical equipment such as surfaces, boxes, bottles etc.
- Staff will disinfect all vehicles daily on tour and bikes will continue to be cleaned daily.
- Staff will prepare and serve any food with gloves and face masks.
Pre, during and post-trip measures:
- All staff will be tested 24 hours before each tour departure.
- Guests must comply with government rules set by the host country (This may include quarantine upon arrival).
- Regular temperature checks will be taken by staff and guests throughout the trip.
- If a guest or member of staff displays symptoms of COVID-19 they will immediately be put into an isolation point and a medical test will be organised at the earliest convenience.
- A track and trace system will be in place to ensure that if any guests display symptoms up to 14 days after the trip, all guests and staff on the trip will be notified.
