8 months with the GRAND RAID BCVS!
You’ve found your 2025 challenge, now it’s time to get to work. And while September 6, 2025 may seem a long way off, never forget that performance can’t be improvised, it has to be built.
In a monthly article, we’ll look at key points and fundamental steps in the preparation of your goal.
Although the idea is not to build a detailed, individualized training program, if reading these mini articles makes you want to do things even better, then a coaching project with a competent trainer could become a reality. To think that this kind of service is reserved exclusively for professional athletes is simply to forget that it’s far more difficult to reconcile training with a 100% job, family life and other daily activities.
Training, nutrition, choice of equipment, preparatory runs, course reconnaissance – these are just some of the topics covered in these capsules. No miracle formulas, but a finger on the key points that deserve special attention and that you need to optimize to put all your chances on your side.
In January, anything goes, but in February we get down to business.
Registration and information at www.grand-raid-bcvs.ch.
Introducing your coach:
Arnaud Rapillard, 37, 5x top 10 Verbier-Grimentz, PR: 6h23 and 49 seconds in 2016.
He has 18 editions to his credit between 2004 and 2023, including 12 from Verbier. He knows the course “like the back of his hand.
Trained at the University of Fribourg and then at Macolin in the field of sports science, his knowledge of training and physiology were the keys to his consistency on this legendary event. A hard worker and perfectionist, he has always sought to pay attention to the details of his training and his equipment in order to push back his limits.
Now retired from competitive sport, he puts the same energy into his company Next Percent to help endurance athletes achieve their goals.