Race-day execution · for cyclists

The race-day plan
you can actually
follow.

FinalClimb turns your FTP, weight, and goal time into a race-day plan that lives where you need it — on your Garmin, on your top tube, and in your crew's hands. Built for gravel, MTB, road, and ultra-endurance cycling.

104mi

Leadville Trail 100

+11,865ft

Climbing

10:15

Goal time

Every screen on this page is one real plan — the founder's 2025 Leadville ride, plate 143.

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143

LEADVILLE 100 · MTB

Goal 10:15 · 278W FTP · 72kg

ElevationAidYou

12,540 ft

9,200 ft

PIPELINEMI 24

TWIN LAKESMI 40

COLUMBINEMI 50

TWIN LAKESMI 60

FINISHMI 104

MI 18.4

0255075100 mi

TARGET NP

186w

FUEL/HR

96g

GOAL SPLIT

10:15

HIGH POINT

12,540 ft

FINALCLIMB · IQ

MI 18.4

ETA · AID 1

02:47

PIPELINE · 24.2 MI

PWR

186w

+4 of target

FUEL

96g

in 12 min

NEXT 25 MI+ 3,100 FT

FINALCLIMB · IQ

MI 18.4

ETA · AID 1

02:47

PIPELINE · 24.2 MI

PWR

186w

+4 of target

FUEL

96g

in 12 min

NEXT 25 MI+ 3,100 FT

Built forGravelMountain BikeRoadUltra-EnduranceCyclocrossDelivered viaGarmin Connect IQTop-tube stickerCrew PDF

MI 0 · The gunPower targets

Power targets set before the gun.

Enter your FTP once. We adjust for altitude, zone your terrain, and hand back targets for the climb, the roller, and the flat — so you never light the match at mile 22.

Altitude-adjusted FTP calculations
Terrain-specific power zones
Effort modes: Conservative, Tempo, Pushing
Normalized power recommendations

Power targets — Leadville 100 · Athlete 143

Checkpoint splits with cutoffs and aid-station supplies

MI 24 · PipelineCheckpoint splits

Every checkpoint, timed in advance.

See exactly when to hit each checkpoint for your goal time. Cutoffs, supplies, and crew windows, printed on your top tube and streamed to your Garmin.

A1PipelineMI 2402:47

A2Twin LakesMI 4005:04

A3ColumbineMI 6007:22

FIN6th & HarrisonMI 10410:15

MI 40 · Twin LakesNutrition plan

Fuel on schedule — not on feel.

Grams of carb, milliliters of water, milligrams of sodium, laid out against the clock. Add your favorite products; we map them to the hour.

96g/hr

Carbohydrate

750ml/hr

Hydration

600mg/hr

Sodium

3,100kcal

Total race

Hour-by-hour nutrition plan with product mapping

MI 50 · ColumbineThe outputs

One plan, three places.

Splits stream to your Garmin, print as a top-tube sticker, and ride in your crew's back pocket as a one-page PDF.

ETA · AID 1

02:47

PIPELINE

PWR

186

FUEL

96g

01 · Garmin IQ

Live on your head unit

Connect IQ data field for Edge 540, 840, 1040+. ETAs, target power, fuel cadence.

02 · Top-Tube Sticker

No battery required

Print-ready PDF sized to your top tube. Print at home, or on waterproof vinyl at any print shop.

FINALCLIMBLEADVILLE · 10:15

Athlete 143

A1 PIPELINE02:47

A2 TWIN LAKES05:04

A3 COLUMBINE07:22

FIN HARRISON10:15

FUEL · 96g/hr · 750ml/hr

03 · Crew PDF

Hand it to your crew

Full race plan: splits, supplies, drop-bag contents, nutrition schedule. One page, printable.

MI 78 · PowerlineCommunity intel

See what the front of the pack ran.

Log your rig: tires, gearing, hydration, crew notes. Browse setups from last year's field, filtered by finish time.

Tires45c Riddler68%

Gearing46 / 10-4652%

Bottles2 + 1.5L pack61%

ShoesCarbon gravel73%

Sample data: community pages fill in as each year's field logs their setups.

The community gear page — Leadville Trail 100

Pre-loaded races

Your race is already loaded.

Courses, cutoffs, aid stations, and elevation profiles for the biggest gravel, MTB, and ultra-endurance events in North America.

Races loaded

GRAVEL50–100 mi· 6,560 ft

Every course, cutoff, and aid station — free to explore. Browse all races →

How it works

Race-ready in minutes.

Three steps from sign-in to start line.

01STEP

Tell us who's on the bike.

FTP, weight, altitude tolerance, nutrition habits. Takes five minutes. No sensor pairing, no activity uploads.

02STEP

Pick your race.

Choose from the pre-loaded race library and set a goal time. The plan recalculates live.

03STEP

Execute the plan.

Sync to your Garmin. Print the top-tube sticker. Hand the PDF to your crew. Then ride it.

Prediction accuracy

We check our math against real races

FinalClimb doesn't guess your finish from averages. It simulates the ride from first principles — gravity, rolling resistance, aero drag, momentum — solved point by point over the actual course file, then layered with altitude, fatigue, hike-a-bike, and stop strategy. We calibrate that physics against real race files, checked not just at the finish line but at every aid-station arrival in between — currently within ~5% on every course we've checked. When the model misses, we fix the physics, not the marketing.

Races calibrated against real ride files

<5%

Finish-time error, every race checked so far

Aid-station arrivals checked, not just finish lines

Triple Bypass: 0.7% off. Chequamegon 40: 0.6% off. SBT GRVL Black: 2.6% off. Leadville Trail 100: 4.3% off — our largest miss so far, still inside 5%. All four are the founder's own race files — 12,000-foot summits and washboard descents included, not lab conditions.

What the model accounts for

Course elevation, mile by mile
Surface mix & rolling resistance
Your tires — casing and width
Altitude & acclimatization days
Aid-station stop strategy
Hike-a-bike sections
Technical descent speeds
Fatigue over race duration

Methodology: predictions are checked against real ride files (FIT/GPX) — official chip time where the event publishes one — not simulated averages. These same rides tune the model, so we call it calibration, not independent validation — that comes as the set grows beyond the founder's own files. Raced one of these events? Send your ride file to support@thefinalclimb.com and we'll run it through the harness. Your own prediction is only as honest as the FTP and weight you enter.

Chris Winterhack

Founder · Leadville 100 finisher · 2025

143

From the founder

“The plan was perfect. I just had no way to carry it up the mountain.”

In 2025 I lined up at Leadville with a year of training, a world-class coach, and a printed race plan. The fitness was there. The plan was there.

What I didn't have was a way to follow it on the bike. I ended up gluing together Google Docs, spreadsheets, and Facebook threads at 3 AM the morning of the race.

FinalClimb is the instrument I wanted at mile 72. One plan, one place, on the bike.

Read the full story

MI 104 · 6th & Harrison

Line up with a plan
worth following.

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The race-day planyou can actuallyfollow.

Power targets set before the gun.

Every checkpoint, timed in advance.

Fuel on schedule — not on feel.

One plan, three places.

Live on your head unit

No battery required

Hand it to your crew

See what the front of the pack ran.

Your race is already loaded.

Mid South Gravel

Sea Otter Classic Gravel

Unbound Gravel

SBT GRVL

Triple Bypass

Leadville Trail 100 MTB

Gravel Worlds

USA Cycling Gravel National Championships

Race-ready in minutes.

Tell us who's on the bike.

Pick your race.

Execute the plan.

We check our math against real races

Line up with a planworth following.

The race-day plan
you can actually
follow.

Line up with a plan
worth following.