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Dales Divide
Starts: 1st May 2021, 06:00
Back for a third year, this 600km route traverses two of the UK's National Parks: The Yorkshire Dales and the North York Moors. Kicking off the UK ultra season with a roster stacked with some of the best British racers, this is set to be a fiercely competitive race.
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Location: Arnside, UK
Length: 607
Elevation: 7,510
Terrain: Off-Road
Race Around the Netherlands
Starts: 1st May 2021, 07:00
Fast and flat; what the Netherlands lacks in elevation and terrain it more than makes up for with its wind and characterful villages. Don't let the elevation profile fool you, this is not an easy race.
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Location: Amerongen, Netherlands
Length: 1,913
Elevation: 4,164
Terrain: Road
Past races
Tuatara 1000
Starts: 26th February 2021, 22:00
Brand new for 2021, the Tuatara 1000 has two options for the riders: a brevet and a non-stop category. Starting and finishing in Invercagill, the Tuatara 1000 will take riders into the crevices of the gravel roads on the south coast of New Zealand's southern island.
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Location: Invercagill, New Zealand
Length: 1,066km
Elevation: 12,840m
Terrain: Gravel
Victoria Divide
Starts: 26th February 2021, 19:00
The Victoria Divide is a 550km race from Melbourne to Albury traversing the coastal side of the Great Dividing Range. The race was designed by Melburnian, Lewis Ciddor, a rider who cut his teeth winning the 2018 Tour Divide and who has worked to produce a race that is as technical and demanding as 550km from his home city can be. The winning times have ranged from 40 to 44 hours, and no rider has ever cracked the 40 hour mark. It's worthy of note that the re-route following the fires in 2019/20 added 20km to last year’s route but has now returned closer to the original route. While Lewis isn’t back to defend his title this year, Emma Flukes and Ben May who completed the 2020 podium will line up alongside other big names who are making their Vic Divide debut. Race route illustration by Alex Hotchin 📸 Jimmy Röstlund
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Location: Melbourne, Australia
Length: 552km
Elevation: 16,200m
Terrain: MTB
Tour Te Waipounamu
Starts: 14th February 2021, 24:00
The inaugural Tour Te Waipounamu is the brain child of Brian Alder, a veteran of the sport and a lifelong mountaineer. With experience from the Tour Divide, Highland Trail, Colorado Trail Race and Kyrgystan; Brian's event has been tipped as the hardest bikepacking race in New Zealand. With a competitive domestic line up, including a Tour Divide winner and seven race veterans, a French Divide and Bohemia Divide winner, we are massively excited to kick off our 2021 race coverage with what will surely be a cracking race.
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Location: Cape Farewell, New Zealand
Length: 1,319km
Elevation: 22,810m
Terrain: MTB
Journey Around Rwanda
Starts: 29th January 2021, 06:30
As the Race Around Rwanda was amended to a Journey in order to comply with Rwandan restrictions, we're treated to an usual event. It's never been about the destination and, now more than ever, it's all about the journey.
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Location: Kigali, Rwanda
Length: 1,000km
Terrain: Road/Gravel
Dales Divide
Starts: 29th August 2020, 07:00
Originally slated for the Easter weekend, the Dales Divide takes riders on a 600km tour across two of the UK's National Parks: The Yorkshire Dales and the North York Moors.
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Location: Arnside, UK
Length: 600km
Terrain: Off-Road
Three Peaks Bike Race
Starts: 25th July 2020, 04:00
From Vienna to Nice via three of the hardest climbs in Europe: Großglockner Hochalpenstraße, Col du Sanetsch and Mount Ventoux.
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Location: Vienna, Austria
Length: 1950km
Terrain: Road
Hope 1000 2020
Starts: 20th June 2020, 04:00
What was the NAVAD 1000, is now the Hope 1000 and 2020 sees the race in its sixth year. During this unprecedented scene for events, we're excited to bring this event live to your screens.
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Location: Switzerland
Length: 1000km
Terrain: Off-Road
COVID-19 Updates
Starts: 16th March 2020, 24:00
Live updates from race organisers as their events become impacted by the global health threat of coronavirus.
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Location: Worldwide
Length: Months
Two Volcano Sprint
Starts: 18th October 2020, 04:30
From the foot of Mount Vesuvio to the peak of Mount Etna, the riders of Two Volcano sprint are about to erupt into a display of power and endurance.
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Location: Naples, Italy
Length: 1000km
Terrain: Road
TransIbérica
Starts: 20th September 2020, 20:00
2,800 km of Iberian riding awaits riders at the start line of this year's event. With 12 checkpoints across Spain and Portugal, the race promises to highlight the best regions of the peninsula.
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Location: Valencia, Spain
Length: 2800km
Terrain: Road
Transpyrenees
Starts: 22nd August 2020, 20:00
Transpyrenees 2020 is a 1,000km single stage, unsupported race across the Pyrenees, which takes in 40 cols and +25,000m of elevation gain.
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Location: Llança, Spain
Length: 1000km
Terrain: Road
GBDURO20
Starts: 1st August 2020, 07:00
Off-road, fully self-sufficient race from Lands End to John O'Groats.
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Location: Lands End, UK
Length: 2000km
Terrain: Off-Road
Trans Atlantic Way
Starts: 3rd September 2020, 09:00
The Trans Atlantic Way now in its 5th year with shorter special edition of 2113kms. With international travel restrictions in place, it’s an all Ireland field this year. Riders will start in the City of Derry and make their way over the Peace Bridge to join the Wild Atlantic Way. Riders have two routes to chose from: Cu Culainn 2113km and Setanta 1541km, named after a famous Irish mythical character.
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Location: Derry, Northern Ireland
Length: 2113km/1541km
Terrain: Road
Badlands
Starts: 6th September 2020, 07:00
Badlands 2020 is the inaugural gravel event brought to you by the organisers of Transibérica and Transpyrenees. As a sprint event, we're expecting a real spectacle of fast endurance racing.
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Location: Granada, Spain
Length: 700km
Elevation: +15.000m
Terrain: Gravel
Race Around The Netherlands
Starts: 29th August 2020, 06:00
Race Around The Netherlands is a staple in the ultra-endurance calendar renowned for its lack of hills and its trademark winds. It may be one of the flattest races in the world but the Netherlands is not for the faint of heart.
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Location: Amerongen, Netherlands
Length: 1904km
Terrain: Road
Rich Seipp's Winter HT550 ITT
Starts: 1st December 2019, 09:00
It's Rich vs the clock for what could be the first completion of a winter HT550 ITT.
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Location: Tyndrum, Scotland
Length: 550 miles
Terrain: Off-road
Two Volcano Sprint
Starts: 7th November 2019, 04:30
The cherry on top of a brilliant year's racing.
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Location: Italy
Length: 1100km
Terrain: Road
Atlas Mountain Race 2020
Starts: 15th February 2020, 08:00
The inaugural off-road bikepacking race across the Atlas Mountains opens up the season of unsupported ultra-distance cycling for the year.
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Location: Marrakech, Morocco
Length: 1145km
Terrain: Off-road
TransIbérica 2019
Starts: 1st September 2019, 20:00
3,500km around the Iberian Peninsula with checkpoints in some of the highest peaks available.
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Location: Bilbao, Spain
Length: 3500km
Terrain: Road
Paris-Brest-Paris 2019
Starts: 18th August 2019, 03:00
The four-yearly 1200km randonnée is back for its 19th edition. Originally a race, this brevet is a prestigious event steeped in the history of long-distance cycling.
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Location: Paris, France
Length: 1200km
Terrain: Road
Transcontinental Race 2019
Starts: 27th July 2019, 03:00
The most prestigious race on the calendar returns with four new checkpoints and a route reversal.
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Location: Burgas, Bulgaria
Length: 4000km
Terrain: Road
Transpyrenees Ultracycling Race 2019
Starts: 29th June 2019, 20:00
A 950km traverse of the Pyrenees mountains across the French and Spanish border.
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Location: Llança, Spain
Length: 950km
Terrain: Road
GBDURO19
Starts: 22nd June 2019, 07:00
Land's End to John O'Groats on road, gravel, singletrack and everything in between across four stages.
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Location: Great Britain
Length: 1960km
Terrain: All-road
Tour Divide 2019
Starts: 14th June 2019, 14:00
Running from Banff in Canada to Antelope Wells on the Mexican border, the Tour Divide is for many the halo event of Bikepack Ultraracing. With both South Bound and North Bound riders racing self-supported across approx. 2,745 miles (4,420km) of the ACA's Great Divide Mountain Bike Route, with a few diversions to spice it up. The 2019 edition had perhaps the deepest starting field ever, with prior winners of Tour Divide, TCR, TransAm, Terra Australis and Italy Divide all lining up. This year's race was epic!
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Location: Banff, AB, Canada
Length: 2745 miles
Elevation: 44,400m
Terrain: Off-road
Trans America Bike Race 2019
Starts: 2nd June 2019, 12:00
The longest race on the calendar takes riders from one side of the USA to the other.
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Location: Portland, OR
Length: 4200 miles
Terrain: Road
TransAtlantic Way 2019
Starts: 6th June 2019, 09:30
The race along the Wild Atlantic Way on the west coast of Ireland returns for 2019.
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Location: Dublin, Ireland
Length: 2500km
Terrain: Road
Highland Trail 550
Starts: 25th May 2019, 08:00
After riders succumbed to torrential rain within the first two days, the 2019 HT550 had a surprise around every corner of the trail.
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Location: Scotland, UK
Length: 550 miles
Terrain: Off-road
Italy Divide
Starts: 25th April 2019, 12:00
1150 unsupported kilometres between Naples and Torbole with a mix of fast rolling gravel roads and technical mountain bike trails.
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Location: Italy
Length: 1150km
Elevation: 15000m
Terrain: Off-road
Race to the Rock
Starts: 31st August 2018, 20:22
Race To The Rock is a 3,500km off-road epic held annually in the wilds of the Australian Outback. Uluru Rock has marked the finish line every year since its 2016 inauguration, but the start line, and route to it, have always been changed - with Tasmania marking the start of the 2018 edition. Dreamt up by the 'chief instigators' of the Indian Pacific Wheel Race, and with Sarah Hammond as the race's only ever victor, the race is anything but a ride for the faint hearted.
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Location: Australia
Length: 3,500km
Terrain: Off-road
Silk Road Mountain Race
Starts: 17th August 2018, 23:00
The first edition of most bikepacking races usually involve a makeshift start and a field of riders selected from the organiser’s closest friends. Not the Silk Road Mountain Race, which has assembled a lineup of veterans and rookies and convinced them to a race a fixed 1,700km route through Kyrgyzstan’s Tien Shan mountains -- with a wince-inducing 26,000m of climbing thrown in for good measure, too. With only three manned checkpoints, unfamiliar terrain, and scant resources, the race is set to make essential dotwatching.
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Location: Kyrgyzstan
Length: 1,700km
Elevation: 26,100m
Terrain: Mixed
Jenny Graham 'Round-the-World' Record
Starts: 15th June 2018, 23:00
On June 16th 2018, Scottish ultra cyclist Jenny Graham set off from Berlin in an attempt to break the women's 'Around-the-World' record. Her 18,000 mile ride will take her across 14 countries and 4 continents. She'll be spending up to 16 hours in the saddle every day to hit her target of 180 miles per day, and beat the record by a projected 34 days. It's an ultra-distance effort that will test her mile after mile; country after country, and we'll be following her for the duration.
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Location: Europe, Asia, Oceania, North America
Length: 18,000 miles
Terrain: Road
Tour Divide
Starts: 8th June 2018, 06:00
For many people, the Tour Divide is the original bikepacking race. It's an event that has inspired many riders, and laid the foundations for an entire calender of ultra-distance bike races to thrive. Following the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route, the Tour Divide stretches 4418km from Banff, Canada, to Antelope Wells on the USA-Mexico border. Off-road; self-supported; as fast as possible!
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Location: Canada & USA
Length: 4418km
Elevation: 44,400m
Terrain: Off-road
Trans Am Bike Race
Starts: 2nd June 2018, 07:00
At 6,735km long, the Trans Am Bike Race (TABR) is the longest ultra-distance bike race out there. Traversing the USA from Astoria, Oregon, to Yorktown, Virginia, the route covers the Rockies, the plains of the Mid-West, and the Appalachians, on its cross-continental path. A true test of stamina, and a calendar highlight for riders and dotwatchers alike.
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Location: USA
Length: 6,735km
Elevation: 50,677m
Terrain: Road
Italy Divide
Starts: 25th April 2018, 18:00
The Italy Divide is a 900km unsupported bikepacking race, following a mixture of gravel roads and technical MTB trails through Italy's mountainous interior, from Rome to Lake Garda. The 2018 edition sees 88 riders, and one former winner, take on the challenge.
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Location: Italy
Length: 901km
Terrain: Off-road
TransAtlantic Way
Starts: 7th June 2018, 10:00
The TransAtlanticWay Race is a 2500 km one stage, self-supported road bike race between Dublin and Cork - via The Wild Atlantic Way. With the pounding swell of the Atlantic as your constant companion, you follow the blue zig-zag signposts through seven of Ireland’s westernmost counties.
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Location: Ireland
Length: 2,500km
Elevation: 21,720m
Terrain: Road
Transcontinental Race
Starts: 29th July 2018, 20:00
First dreamt up and organised by Mike Hall in 2013, the Transcontinental Race has come to be recognised as somewhat of a genre-defining event. Starting in Belgium, and finishing in Greece, with four checkpoints en route that change with every passing year, this 4,000km, self-navigated epic is as arduous as it is adventurous, and therein lies its appeal.
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Location: Europe
Length: ~4,000km
Terrain: Road