Help building an unbound 200 mile plan

[burnett2k]

I got into the 200 mile version of unbound happening in May 31 2025. I’ve got a garmin watch so, I tried to set up a coaching plan there and found that I didn’t really like the app and functionality very well. Been watching the TR podcast videos for a while now and thought I’d give the platform a try.
When I am setting up a custom plan, I’m struggling to figure out the best way to plan for Unbound. I already have a decent base of endurance, but it is recommending I essentially just do 3 hard interval days and nothing else. From what I understand, to do a 200 mile ride threshold workouts can be helpful, but I thought there would be a lot more low intensity base building type of stuff.

I do want to build an FTP and get fitter so the ride is overall easier, but I’m a little confused on how to move forward. When I tried to add a 4th day of riding TR started complaining the plan was too ambitious.

In general, I’d say my goal is building endurance while also trying to get some FTP improvements thrown in. Should I switch to some other plan instead of doing custom? Maybe I am misunderstanding how to set it up. I created it as a goal and it asked for the time so I put 15 hours as a goal… Garmin let me put in either mileage or a time which seems to make more sense.

Forgive the long message, I want to use this product and make it work, but a little confused on how to get there with the current plan setup.

[Power13]

Do a search on the forum for Unbound Training as there are a lot of threads with some great advice in them…also search for Unbound by year (Unbound 2024, for example) for additional insight and advice about the event itself.

Example:

Unbound 2025 plan

Hello all, Got into unbound 100 and have been working on base through traditional base 1-3, curious what suggestions on what build and specialty to use to finish the plan build. Can ride 10-15 hours a week with 5 days on and 2 days off. Thank you for suggestions! Hoping to hear from past finishers/racers, hoping for a prideful result in the 30-39 age group

If you put Unbound into Plan Builder, and feed it the number of hours you have available to train, you should get a solid training plan, but will likely need to augment the longer endurance rides over what is typically suggested by Plan Builder. You will see this topic come up quite a bit when you search the Unbound training threads.

There is also a current Unbound 2025 thread that you can jump into, as well…

Unbound Gravel 2025

Lottery and Deferral registration is open. I’m officially registered and in on a deferral, so figured no time like the present to kick off this year’s thread. Anybody else?