🗓️ Next intake starts in October

Real coach. Real community. Real experts.

AI will write you a training plan in about ten seconds. It will not get you through a wet Tuesday in February. That is the part that decides whether you are faster in the spring, and it is the part the Ride Harder Academy is built around.

Twelve weeks of structured, coached training, run as one group, with real people behind it. Running since 2016.

Train. Learn. Belong.

TRAIN. A properly periodised 12 week plan, written session by session, that fits around your life. Indoors or out, and compatible with whatever you already use. You never have to decide what today's ride should be.

LEARN. Education is the core of it. Training, nutrition, strength, mindset and recovery, explained in plain language. No jargon. No fluff. You finish knowing how to run your own training.

BELONG. A private group of riders all doing the same block at the same time, with weekly online training sessions, check-ins and the accountability that comes from other people noticing whether you turned up.

Who is actually coaching you

This is the bit a downloaded plan cannot give you.

James Walsgrove, Head Coach. UK cycling coach, running the Academy since 2016. I lead the group and write the plans.

Peter Gascoigne, Strength & Conditioning. BSc and MSc in S&C. Worked with the UK Sports Institute and the Great Britain Cycling Team, where he led strength and conditioning for all the Olympic endurance squads and played a part in a string of medals. S&C coach to the World Tour team Bahrain Victorious.

Kate MacLeod, Nutrition. Elite cyclist and our resident nutritionist. Fuelling on and off the bike, and the question riders ask more than any other: losing weight without wrecking your energy or your performance.

Lexie Williamson, Yoga. Author of Yoga for Cyclists. She runs the yoga sessions and answers the mobility questions most riders do not know who to ask.

How the twelve weeks work

Three months, three targets, in the order that actually works.

Month 1, Economy. We set your personal training zones, build the aerobic foundation and clean up your pedal stroke so you go further on less. Strength work and mindset start here.

Month 2, Lactate Threshold. FTP and sweet spot. We lift your threshold power and extend how long you can hold it, which is the single biggest lever on how fast you ride a long day. Plus aero position work, which is free speed.

Month 3, Aerobic Capacity. VO₂ max intervals to raise the ceiling on your fitness, with the mindset strategies to get through them. These are the sessions people talk themselves out of.

What's included:
✅ Full 12 week progressive training plan, written session by session
✅ Weekly online training session with the group, on TrainingPeaks Virtual with Zoom alongside
✅ Strength & mobility plan for home or gym
✅ Weekly yoga sessions
✅ Nutrition webinars and workshops
✅ Wellness and mindset guidance
✅ Essential cycling skills and the practical hacks nobody tells you
✅ Direct access to the coaches, not a PDF you download and forget
✅ Q&A coaching sessions
✅ Private community group for questions, support and company
✅ Exclusive discounts from partner brands

The Train Smart Fundamentals

Underneath the sessions sit five things that decide whether the training works: bike fit, training, nutrition, mobility and strength, and wellness of mind and body. Get these right and the plan does its job. Ignore them and the sessions are doing all the lifting alone.

Alongside them run the five spokes for health and longevity: sleep, diet, breathe, mindset and movement. Because the goal is not one good spring. It is still riding well in twenty years.

Does it actually work?

Around 250 riders have been through the Academy since 2016, in groups of roughly 20 to 25. These days about 80 per cent of a group stays with the sessions all the way through the twelve weeks, and that figure has gone up every year.

That number is the whole point. Anyone can sell you a plan. Finishing one is the hard part.

Who it's for:
Any rider who wants to get faster and stay faster, whether you are building towards a first sportive, have a big event booked, or you are simply tired of riding the same speed year after year. It is also for the rider who would like a coach and cannot justify one to one prices. That is why the Academy exists.

You don't need to be fast to start. You need to be willing to train smart for twelve weeks.

Who it's not for: anyone who wants a plan they can ignore, or who only wants the sessions and would skip the rest. The riders who get the most out of it treat the strength, nutrition and mindset work as part of the training.

All you need to know:
📈 Training volume: 6-12 hours per week
🚴 Equipment: turbo trainer or watt bike, plus a heart rate monitor. Power meter ideal, not essential
💻 Delivered on: a free TrainingPeaks account, plus any smart training app (Zwift, TrainerRoad, Rouvy and others)

Typical week:

• 2x midweek structured sessions, around 1hr each
• 1x longer ride at the weekend, indoors or out
• 2-3x optional workouts on other days
• The weekly group session, if you want it

50 places, and that is not a marketing number. Fifty is what can be properly coached before the group sessions stop working and the feedback gets thin. Returning members and the Ultimate Mallorca 312 riders come out of the same fifty.

The Academy runs as one group, starting in October. Once it is underway, the next opportunity is a full season later. Twelve weeks from now you can either be exactly where you are today, or be the rider everyone else is trying to hang onto.

👉 Secure your place in the Academy today.