The Annual Training Plan: All 7 Phases Explained

Your season ends and the instinct is to stop. Fire the coach, ditch the plan, take 6 weeks off. Then you spend half of next year climbing back to where you already were in August.

The fix is a plan that never actually ends. Recovery break, fall foundation, weights, Sweet Spot base, intervals, race prep, taper, each phase timed to hand off to the next.

Drop your "A" event into CoachCat and watch it build the whole thing backwards from that one date.

Take your training to the next level

Rebuilt around the things you actually use the app to check: how recovered you are, what to do about it, and whether you're getting faster.

Men's and Women's Tour de France Power to Weight Comparisons?

Lorena Wiebes sprinted at 21.2 W/kg. The men's field sprints come in around 20.5. Frank lines up both 2026 Tours side by side and explains what that means for how you train.

Most riders start cross season by riding hard and hoping. Six weeks of the right work beats six weeks of guessing, and August is when that window opens.

Tell CoachCat your first race date and it builds the plan backward: openers, race-pace efforts, anaerobic work, and skills on the calendar, not as an afterthought.

Strong off the line. Smooth through the corners. Still attacking on the last lap while everyone else fades.

World-class gravel roads. Girona's cycling culture, in the middle of it. A luxury villa, food worth the trip, and five days riding with Coach Frank Overton. You'll fly home with the memories, the motivation, and an Annual Training Plan built around your 2027 goals.