You might know Marta from her incredible gravel race performances but what you probably don’t know is that she runs her own re-adaptation business alongside her pro training & races. She’s a local to Girona and can’t wait to her share her favourite routes and world with us during her Girona Gravel Experience trip in June.
Why gravel found her
Marta raced mountain bikes from the age of fourteen. Gravel came later her trainer spotted an opportunity three or four years ago and pointed her toward it.
"Buy a gravel bike," he said. "Join some races. This is going to suit you."
He was right. Marta isn't a pure climber. She's powerful, skilled, comfortable in a bunch and gravel, with its wildly unpredictable demands, rewards exactly those qualities. One race: ninety kilometres, three thousand metres of climbing. The next: a hundred kilometres, barely three hundred metres. Same discipline, completely different sport. She loves it. But what she loves just as much is what gravel is as a world.
"At the front of the race you find the pro cyclists, at the back you find mothers with their children, fathers and sons, couples, friends all racing for the joy of it. And then they all go for a beer together afterwards".
Ten years of Girona
Marta has been riding in and around Girona for a decade. She drives up on free days just to ride (yes, she has a full time job as a readaptor, running her own business, alongside her training and race schedule). She knows the quiet roads that don't show up on anyone else's Strava segments, the fast gravel stretches where you can actually open up, the cafés where you park your bike in the corner and nobody looks twice because everybody in the room has done the same thing.
"You breathe cycling in Girona," she says. And it's not a figure of speech.
When I ask what she most wants to share with people who come on the trip — whether they've been to Girona before or not — she doesn't talk about training data or route profiles.
“"The landscapes. The views. The vibe. It's something you have to live. I've wanted to share what I feel in Girona for a long time."
Why Marta is hosting the Girona Experience
When I ask Marta what success looks like at the end of the experience, her answer is simple and it has nothing to do with watts or segments.
"I want people to know me. Not just as a cyclist as a person, as a woman. And I want to stay in touch. I want them to message me months later and say, I'm coming back to Girona with my family, can you send me a route? That's what I want."
There's something genuinely warm about that and that is what the klub experiences are all about. We bring like-minded people together to be hosted by a local who genuinely wants to show you their world.
The Marta you'll meet in Girona is the same person who lines up at races. Same discipline. Same knowledge. Same love for the gravel roads she's been riding for years but without the pressure of the race, where the focus is on riding some of the best gravel routes, stopping in the best food places and connecting with each other.
Marta is hosting theklub's Girona Gravel Experience this June, a small-group trip built around the roads and gravel tracks she knows better than almost anyone. Tailored to gravel cyclists who want to ride but enjoy the whole Girona vibe.
