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I.T.R.S. Mountain Bike Fitness Rating System
A standardized evaluation framework to assess physical endurance, vertical climbing, descending volume, and saddle time for guided MTB tours in Finale Ligure.
Assessing Your Physical Endurance Before You Ride
Selecting the right guided tour or shuttle package requires an objective assessment of your cardiovascular fitness and muscular endurance. In mountain biking, physical demand is determined by total distance, vertical ascent (climbing), total descent, and technical fatigue accumulated over hours in the saddle.
The 5 ITRS Endurance & Fitness Levels
INTERMEDIATE: 2
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up to 50 km (typically around 25 km)
- up to 800 meters climbing
- up to 2’400 meters descending
- you can push or carry your bike uphill or downhill on short sections (few meters)
- good general fitness necessary
- ou’re going on day tours often
- you are able to cycle 4-5 hours per day.
- you like to challenge yourself
ADVANCED: 3
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up to 100 km (typically around 50 km)
- up to 1’500 meters climbing
- up to 5000 meters descending
- good condition and regular training is required
- atough and long full-day tour or a whole day in the bike park does not scare you.
- you are comfortable with cycling more than 5 hours at steady pace per day.
- you are able to climb 1 hour non stop.
- you do not mind riding in rain if it occurs
EXPERT: 4
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often around 80 km
- up to 3’400 meters climbing
- up to 10’000 meters descending
- frequent and structured endurance training is necessary
- exhausting and very long day tours, bike marathons, or records in downhill descend meters per day are your thing
- you may have raced, got prepared and trained for mtb events
- you do not mind riding in rain if it occurs
- you can push or carry your bike on long sections
- uphill in technical trails (more than 20 minutes)
EXTREME: 5
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typically > 100 km
- typically > 3’400 meters climbing
- > 10’000 meters descending
- professional training for racing is required
- you love racing, especially extreme bike marathons or any other form of extremely exhausting races
- you are a machine
- you cycle uphill faster than a motorbike and have bear thighs
- please pass your way, you are going to make our guides look bad (just joking! we have a good plan for you!)
