People have asked us about camps for about three years. The answer was always the same: not until we could do it the way we'd want to do it ourselves.
October 2026, we're finally doing it.
Two five-day camps in Girona. One road, one gravel, back-to-back. Same private farmhouse for both. Sixteen riders per camp, three of us hosting. That's the whole shape of it.
Here's the longer version.
Why Girona
If you've listened to the podcast for any length of time you've heard us talk about this place. More World Tour pros live in Girona than anywhere else on the planet. They didn't pick it for the lifestyle. They picked it because the riding is unreasonable.
Every road that leaves the city is good. The famous ones — Rocacorba, Els Àngels, Mare de Déu del Mont — are training climbs first and tourist climbs second. The unfamous ones — the back roads through the Empordà, the gravel paths along the Ter river, the rolling lines down to the Costa Brava — are quietly some of the best surfaces I've ridden anywhere in Europe.
Then there's October. Mid-twenties most days. Vines turning. Summer crowds long gone. The pool at the house still warm enough to swim in after a ride. If you only get one week to fly somewhere and ride, that's the week.
Why now
Two reasons.
The first: we needed the right pieces in place. The right base — Can Sagnari, a 1749 Catalan farmhouse five minutes from Lake Banyoles, twenty from Girona old town. The right routes — five rides per camp, mapped from the playbook I've used out there for years. The right team — me in the group every day, Sarah on ops and on the bike, Matthew running the follow car. None of that came together overnight.
The second: the audience asked for it. A camp run by someone who actually rides every day, with a small group, on roads we'd ride anyway. Not a tour-company package. Not a celebrity coaching circus. Just sixteen of you, three of us, the place we'd go anyway.
What the rides actually look like
Two pace groups every day — Chill and Fast. We sort them on day one and adjust through the week. The follow car's on radio with both — nobody waits at the side of a Catalan back road for a slow puncture, and nobody's getting dropped on a 90-minute climb.
A flavour of the road camp:
- Day one — Banyoles lake loop. 45 km, easy gradients, group sorting. Welcome ride.
- Day two — Els Àngels. The 10 km tempo climb every Girona pro has done a thousand times. Coffee at the Sanctuari. Drop down through the Empordà and home along the river.
- Day three — the big day. Mare de Déu del Mont. Twelve kilometres, properly steep at the top, the kind of summit you tell people about for the rest of the year. Around 2,200 m for the day.
- Day four — Costa Brava out-and-back. Rolling roads to the Med. Coffee in a fishing village. Long pull home through the afternoon light.
- Day five — Rocacorba. Eleven kilometres of the climb every pro in town uses for testing. Time it. Ride it easy. Your call.
The gravel camp is built differently. La Garrotxa volcanic park trails on day two. Vineyard service roads through the Empordà on day three. Cork-oak singletrack in Les Gavarres on day four. Coastal gravel above the Med on day five. Two groups again — Fast takes the technical lines, Chill takes the wider trails. Same logic, different surface.
What it isn't
It's not a coaching course. We're not doing FTP tests on day one. There's no whiteboard.
It's not a tour either. We're not herding sixty riders onto a coach. There's no clipboard. We don't have a deal with a hotel chain.
It's a week away on the bike with people who care about the same things you care about. Roads good enough to remember. Coffee stops worth the detour. Dinner at the same long table every night.
The basics
- Road camp — 10–15 October 2026. €995 per person.
- Gravel camp — 16–21 October 2026. €995 per person.
- Both camps — €1,700. Saves €290 versus booking each on its own. Same farmhouse the whole time, no airport transfer in between.
- Capacity — 16 riders per camp. First-come.
- Included — four nights at Can Sagnari, breakfast every morning, five fully guided rides, follow car all week, in-ride nutrition, airport transfers from Girona–Costa Brava (GRO), three of us on hand the whole time.
- Not included — flights, travel insurance, lunches and dinners (€15–25 a meal, eaten out at the spots we've been using for years), hire bike (we can sort one for a fee), single-room supplement.
If you're going to do one of these, the best decision is probably to do both. Five days isn't enough for Girona. Ten is closer. Same farmhouse the whole time, no flight in between, the legs build and the friends do too.
Booking
Sixteen spots per camp, taken in the order they come in. Payment is in full through Stripe — your spot is locked the moment it clears.
Pick your format and book here: Roadman Training Camps.
We're excited about this one. October's a long way away. These will fill before then.
— Anthony