Team EF Coaching Training Camp

Team EF Coaching
Training Camp

A training retreat with pro team support

Soak up smooth roads and sun-drenched climbs in a hotbed of professional cycling. The Team EF Coaching Training Camp takes your riding and puts it at the heart of an elite performance set-up. Providing an unparalleled riding experience, this retreat combines the tailored support of a WorldTour training camp and the finest Catalan culture, climate, cuisine and accommodation.

Against the backdrop of the Volta a Catalunya, you'll taste life at a UCI WorldTour with a pro team. Riding, resting and racing over five days, you'll take in famed climbs while companions can enjoy wellness activities at the retreat.

Get more from your time on the bike, learn from an elite support crew, and ride with retired pro-riders at the Team EF Coaching Training Camp with prices starting at $5,250 USD.

Our COVID-19 promise Pricing

Luxury accommodation in a secluded villa

Hosted in the verdant splendor of Artu, attendees slip immediately into the rolling hills and olive groves of the Sierra Montnegre. With three styles of room on offer, access to the pool and fitness suites open to all, it’s an ideal spot to recover from rides and getaway from your day to day.

A menu that showcases the best of Catalan cuisine

Whilst you cultivate an appetite, we'll make sure it's satisfied with fine food produced by local chefs according to your dietary needs. Using fresh and seasonal ingredients, you can sample the best this region of Spain has to offer whilst giving you the choice between a balanced dietary program and a menu that savors the dining as well as the riding.

Activities for partners and travel companions

Rider's companions will have access to numerous activities including yoga, a full fitness suite, a pool and the bucolic surround of the Catalan countryside. With the historic centre of Girona just 20 minutes away and Barcelona just 90 minutes south, there's plenty to experience in all directions, on and off the bike.

Our camp includes:

Boutique accommodation at Artu in Can Terrades

Local cuisine prepared by top local chefs

Daily training and guidance from Team EF Coaching instructors

On-the-spot bike maintenance by EF Pro Cycling mechanics

Massages by EF Pro Cycling soigneurs

Team car supported rides

Pre-camp access to our training library

Commemorative photography by quality photographers

Activities and treatments for non-training companions

Dine with riders and staff after the final stage of the Volta a Catalunya

Daily overview

Tuesday, March 22nd

Wednesday, March 23rd

Rise and enjoy breakfast on the terrace in the glow of the Catalan sun whilst preparing for your daily training. Once equipped for the ride, head out and sample the finest roads as you complete tailored workouts compiled by our coaches. After returning, you’ll benefit from a post-ride massage with a team soigneur before enjoying an afternoon activity. With the first day of the Volta a Catalunya complete, we’ll dissect the race with you from a team perspective, and preview the next day’s racing.

Thursday, March 24th

On your second day of training, savour breakfast before putting tires to the road in the early season sun. Enjoy a cafe stop and fully supported riding before looping back to Artu and enjoying a post-ride massage. Once refreshed, you’ll have some time to wind down, watch the race, or partake in a group activity before the race debrief. Once fully analysed, we’ll head into town to enjoy a special dining experience provided once again by a quality local chef.

Friday, March 25th

Saturday, March 26th

The final day of training is reserved for perhaps the most iconic ride of the entire region, the Rocacorba. Test your legs on the slopes and experience the thrill of giving it your all knowing you’re fully supported. This ride will conclude with a visit to a local cafe and a massage back at Artu. Finally, in the afternoon, you can rest up before the evening meal where we’ll head into Girona to sample food at an exclusive restaurant.

Sunday, March 27th

The final day of camp will allow you to take a peak behind the scenes of the Volta a Catalunya with our professional team. After breakfast, you’ll be taken to Barcelona to go behind the scenes at the finish line before joining the team and riders at their hotel to talk through the race. After dinner, your immersive training camp experience will draw to a close and we’ll bid you farewell until our next training retreat.

Pricing

Our experience starts from $5,250 USD per person and varies depending only on the size of the room you select for the duration of your stay at Artu. Additional non-riding guests will receive a 15% discount on the listed prices, and a Single Supplement Fee of $1,000 will be added for attendees wanting a single room.

Cosy

Simple, uncomplicated, and uncluttered, our cosy rooms are furnished with a double bed. Ample and comfortable boltholes from which to explore the foothills of the Pyrenees, it's the pared back choice for the essentialist.

USD 5,250

per person

Premium

Tastefully decorated and offering the rider a relaxing and restful space, our premium rooms sits between the cosy and elite rooms in terms of space, whilst still delivering with views over vineyards and rolling hills.

USD $5,950

per person

Elite

Everything that you would expect from a top of the line hotel stay can be found in the tastefully furnished settings of our elite suites. Copious in space and overlooking the rolling hills, it's a restful space in which to recover from your daily training.

USD $6,450

per person

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Hosting your stay

Colby Pearce

Forty years of Colorado sunrises, and Colby still finds himself drawn to the roads and trails that transported him from local hill-climbs to the Olympics. Between his own adventures on two wheels, Colby shares his encyclopedic knowledge of the sport with elite athletes and Team EF Coaching members. Himself a former hour record holder, Colby's approach to coaching is methodical and distinctly human — his goal is to put you at the center of your coaching journey and empower you to steer your course.

Zack Morris

From the snows of Canada to the high mountains of Medellin Colombia, Zack Morris has built a life around working with athletes to foster improvements and advances in their performance. Attending to support your stay and guide you in your performance journey, Zack will accompany you on the road and help convey the fundamentals of what cycling is about.

Our Covid-19 promise

As an elite racing team, we care deeply about the safety and wellbeing of all riders, staff and VIPS. We are well versed in complying with Covid-19 protocols internationally and do our utmost to make sure that all possible risks are reduced to ensure a safe bubble throughout your stay. As the situation is constantly evolving, we’re monitoring updates and making sure we observe the latest guidance being issued by local authorities.

Our safety promises:

Sanitizing of communal spaces

Fully vaccinated staff

Test kits provided

A secure bubble that reduces risk from unnecessary contact

A rigorously tested and monitored support crew

We respectfully request that attendees are vaccinated in order to reduce chances of transmission, particularly as attendees will be in contact with riders.

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