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Iditarod Trail Invitational 2024
Started: 23:00, 25 February, 2024
The race of many disciplines with a foot race, bike race and ski race. We'll focus on the bike races, both the 350 mile and the 1,000 mile versions as our riders cross the Alaskan wilderness on their fat bikes.
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Location: Knik Lake, Alaska
Length: 565/1,600km
Elevation: 2600/5000m
Terrain: Snow
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Dales Divide 2024
Starts: 08:00, 29 March, 2024
This 600km route traverses the UK from the west coast to the east, and back taking in two of the UK's National Parks: The Yorkshire Dales and the North York Moors, twice. Unsurprisingly, the April weather in the North of England can easily help define this race.
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Location: Arnside, UK
Length: 600km
Elevation: 7,800m
Terrain: Off-road
GranGuanche Audax Gravel 2024
Starts: 24:00, 30 March, 2024
The third edition of GranGuanche's Gravel audax takes in five of the Canary Islands with four ferry journeys. In true audax spirit, riders must be self-supported but are allowed to ride together and draft one another.
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Location: Canary Islands, Spain
Length: 700km
Elevation: 16,000m
Terrain: Gravel
Classics Story, The Northern Way 2024
Starts: 03:00, 1 April, 2024
A 1,200 km self supported cycling adventure on the legendary roads of the Northern Classics with lots of Bergs and Cobbles on routes used in Tour of Flanders, Paris-Roubaix, La Flèsh Wallonne, Liège Bastogne Liège and Amstel Gold.
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Location: Ghent, Belgium
Length: 1,200km
Elevation: 12,200m
Terrain: Road
Gravel del Fuego 2024
Starts: 03:00, 13 April, 2024
A race at the end of the world in Tierra del Fuego, Chile. This inaugural event is held in one of the windiest and most remote places you could imagine a gravel race. Riders will be hoping for prevailing winds and favourable weather.
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Location: Puerto Natales, Chile
Length: 1,050km
Elevation: 8,893m
Terrain: Gravel
The Unknown Race 2024
Starts: 06:00, 18 April, 2024
The second edition of this innovative event starts in Vienna. Its unique style is a free-route race whereby the first CP will only be revealed one hour before the start and the second CP at CP1. Into the unknown these trusting souls go!
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Location: Vienna, Austria
Length: ~1,000km
Terrain: Road
Le Tour de Frankie 2024
Starts: 04:00, 27 April, 2024
Mexico's first self-supported bikepacking race through Mexico's backcountry on gravel and paved roads passing the occasional volcano. Welcome to El Infierno Del Sur!
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Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Length: 800km
Elevation: 12,000m
Terrain: Gravel
Race around the Netherlands 2024
Starts: 06:00, 27 April, 2024
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. What doesn't go up, can't come down.
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Location: Amerongen, Netherlands
Length: 1,900km
Elevation: 6,800m
Terrain: Road
BikingMan Sri Lanka #1 2024
Starts: 03:00, 28 April, 2024
This is inaugural edition of BikingMan on the island nicknamed the pearl of the Indian Ocean! The course is a treasure with paved secondary roads and spectacular gravel trails in the footsteps of Buddhism.
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Location: Sri Lanka
Length: 1,000km
Elevation: 10,000m
Terrain: Gravel
The Traka ADVENTURE 2024
Starts: 05:00, 1 May, 2024
Europe's halo gravel event is offering an Adventure option of 500km for the first time. Close to the European cycling hub of Girona where riders will experience its culture, mix with its people, enjoy its gastronomy and enjoy its champagne gravel.
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Location: Girona, Spain
Length: 560km
Elevation: 10,000m
Terrain: Gravel
A-Cross the 3 2024
Starts: 08:00, 2 May, 2024
A-Cross the 3 is an unsupported MTB bikepacking adventure across 3 countries (Belgium, Germany & Luxemburg). For those looking for an additional challenge, they can attempt to ride it within 72 hours. The others can just ride it and have fun.
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Location: Eupen, Belgium
Length: 500km
Elevation: 10,000m
Terrain: MTB
Headwaters Trail 2024
Starts: 24:00, 4 May, 2024
Welcome to a new circular trail that connects Yorkshire's bridleways and quiet lanes along moors and valleys shaped by three rivers. Riders will pass the source of each of these three rivers which gives the event its name of the Headwaters Trail.
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Location: Yorkshire, UK
Length: 350km
Elevation: 5,200m
Terrain: Off-road
Quick Bite! 2024
Starts: 22:00, 4 May, 2024
The smoother and shorter little sibling to the Seven Serpents, riders on this more digestible route tackle smooth gravel, mountain climbs and pass the wondrous caves and lakes of Slovenia, Croatia and head north for their final course in Trieste, Italy.
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Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia
Length: 500km
Elevation: 10,000m
Terrain: Gravel
Kromvojoj 2024
Starts: 22:00, 9 May, 2024
A Spanish ultra-distance adventure designed to be ridden at your own pace; an antidote to the high speeds of modern life.
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Location: Reus, Spain
Length: 925 / 1,385km
Elevation: 16,400 / 24,500m
Terrain: Road
The Wild West Country 2024
Starts: 07:00, 10 May, 2024
The Wild West Country is a display of some of the finest roads in the South West of England and ticking off National Parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty via some typical West Country short sharp climbs and winding lanes.
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Location: Cirencester, UK
Length: 835km
Elevation: 11,040m
Terrain: Road
Gravel Birds 2024
Starts: 22:00, 10 May, 2024
A loop of the untouched Alentejo region in Portugal will take riders along the many hills of the region, the Guadiana Valley, to the Atlantic coast and inland again.
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Location: Castro Verde, Portugal
Length: 270km / 750km
Elevation: 3,000m / 7,500m
Terrain: Gravel
The Accursed Race 2024
Starts: 07:00, 14 May, 2024
The brand new no-fly race from Lost Dot takes riders on a fixed-route off-road course through the Accursed Mountains in Albania, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo. Follow along to see who takes the inaugural crown.
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Location: Shkodër, Albania
Length: 1,600km
Elevation: 37,000m
Terrain: Off-road
The Southern Divide 2024
Starts: 07:00, 16 May, 2024
The third instalment of this 670 km mixed terrain odyssey, stretching from Lands' End to Kent. Riders will travel through a tapestry of ancient byways, former mining trails, extensive gravel routes, the untamed moors of Devon, breathtaking coastal downlands, new forest paths, and a touch of thrilling single track.
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Location: Lands' End, UK
Length: 676km
Elevation: 9100m
Terrain: 35% Off-Road
Highland Trail 550 2024
Starts: 07:30, 25 May, 2024
One of the original European bikepacking races and notoriously one of the hardest on the calendar, the HT550 is back for another year of hike-a-bike and a wee bit of bike riding, changeable weather and all that the Scottish Highlands can throw at the hardy souls.
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Location: Tyndrum, Scotland
Length: 880km
Elevation: 16,000m
Terrain: MTB
Tour Divide 2024
Starts: 24:00, 14 June, 2024
Running from Banff, Canada to Antelope Wells on the US-Mexican border, the Tour Divide is for many the halo event of Bikepack Ultraracing. There are both Southbound and Northbound riders racing self-supported along the ACA's Great Divide Mountain Bike Route, always with a few weather re-routes to spice it up.
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Location: Banff, Canada
Length: 4,400km
Elevation: 60,000m
Terrain: Off-road
Pure Peak Grit 2024
Starts: 07:00, 29 June, 2024
Dubbed as the hilliest long distance cycling event in the UK, Pure Peak Grit is back for 2024. This road route links together virtually every categorised climb in the Peak District National Park, and the ‘Greatest 100 Cycling Climbs’ around it. With over 13,500m of ascent over 600km, it includes at least 42 fearsome hills with gradients of between 10-25%.
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Location: Sheffield, UK
Length: 600km
Elevation: 13,500m
Terrain: Road
Pan Celtic Race 2024
Starts: 08:00, 7 July, 2024
The Pan Celtic Race's fifth and final year was always planned to be epic and titled the Magnum Opus. Riders will visit the Isle of Man for the first time and tackle the island's notorious time trial route. The traditional short and long routes accompany a mammoth free-route through all five Celtic Nations to create a monumental last race.
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Location: Douglas, Isle of Man
Length: 1,842 / 2,295 km
Elevation: 20,648 / 25,795m
Terrain: Road
VIA Race 2024
Starts: 09:00, 20 July, 2024
With a focus on adventure, community and competition, the first chapter of VIA pays homage to the grassroots of ultra distance racing. VIA is a trilogy consisting of three chapters over the next three years, starting with a 4000km race across Europe this year. The route is steeped in history, following in the footsteps of Hannibal, the Carthaginian General who led his army and 38 elephants from Southern Iberia across mountain ranges to Southern Italy. Where this edition finishes, the second edition will begin.
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Location: Southern Spain
Length: ~4,000km
Elevation: ~40,000m
Terrain: Road
Lakes ‘n’ Knödel 2024
Starts: 09:00, 3 August, 2024
The Alps region is seeing an upsurgence in off-road bikepacking events, and Lakes ‘n’ Knödel is among this trend hosting its inaugural event in 2024. This brand new race that prioritises cycling, community and culinary art is dubbed as ideal for a rookie rider thanks to the plentiful accommodation and excellent food at the mountain refuges. Discounts have been offered to riders who reach the start line via train and bike in an attempt to encourage greener travel to the event.
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Location: Salzburg, Austria
Length: 750km
Elevation: 15,000m
Terrain: Gravel
GBDURO24
Starts: 23:00, 9 August, 2024
It's often referred to as the "scrappy rolling picnic through Britain's ever changing landscapes". In more detail, it's a four-stage mixed-terrain race from the Southern-most tip of England up to Scotland's John O'Groats with three checkpoints in mid-Wales, the Pennines and Scottish Highlands.
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Location: Land's End, UK
Length: 1,880km
Elevation: 30,000m
Terrain: Gravel
Great British Divide 2024
Starts: 23:00, 9 August, 2024
The fourth edition of the Great British Divide is set to be wildly exciting with high passes, rough terrain, unreliable ferries and undoubtedly a good sprinkling of the notorious British weather on either of the two routes available.
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Location: Dover, UK
Length: 1400km / 2000km
Elevation: 27,000m / 35,000m
Terrain: Off-road
Silk Road Mountain Race 2024
Starts: 18:00, 15 August, 2024
Kyrgystan offers one of the wildest and most inhospitable environments for a bikepacking race with its often harsh and unpredictable mountain weather, contrasted with the warmth of the local hospitality. The Silk Road truly is one of the pearls of the mountain bikepacking calendar.
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Location: Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Length: 1,938km
Elevation: 30,460m
Terrain: MTB
TransIbérica 2024
Starts: 06:00, 24 August, 2024
For the first time in the race’s history, riders will start in the Italian Dolomites town of Bolzano and ride to Bilbao, Spain via ten CPs across Switzerland, France and Northern Spain.
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Location: Bolzano, Italy
Length: ~2,600km
Elevation: ~30,000m
Terrain: Road
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The Wild West Country 2024
Starts: 07:00, 10 May, 2024
The Wild West Country is a display of some of the finest roads in the South West of England and ticking off National Parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty via some typical West Country short sharp climbs and winding lanes.
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Location: Cirencester, UK
Length: 835km
Elevation: 11,040m
Terrain: Road
Quick Bite! 2024
Starts: 22:00, 4 May, 2024
The smoother and shorter little sibling to the Seven Serpents, riders on this more digestible route tackle smooth gravel, mountain climbs and pass the wondrous caves and lakes of Slovenia, Croatia and head north for their final course in Trieste, Italy.
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Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia
Length: 500km
Elevation: 10,000m
Terrain: Gravel
The Unknown Race 2024
Starts: 06:00, 18 April, 2024
The second edition of this innovative event starts in Vienna. Its unique style is a free-route race whereby the first CP will only be revealed one hour before the start and the second CP at CP1. Into the unknown these trusting souls go!
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Location: Vienna, Austria
Length: ~1,000km
Terrain: Road
BikingMan 555 Brazil #1 2024
Started: 03:00, 8 March, 2024
This inaugural 555 race from BikingMan will take riders along a fast rolling route through the dense vegetation in Brazil's south as well as the Araucaria forest.
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Location: Santo Antônio do Pinhal, Brazil
Length: 500km
Elevation: 9,000m
Terrain: Gravel
Tour Aotearoa 2024
Started: 24:00, 18 February, 2024
Tour Aotearoa, an adventure stretching 3,000 km from Cape Reinga to Bluff. The route is designed to highlight the best of New Zealand's cycle trail rides, heartland rides, and quiet back country roads.
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Location: Cape Reinga, New Zealand
Length: 3,000km
Elevation: 37,000m
Terrain: All-Road
Atlas Mountain Race 2024
Started: 17:00, 9 February, 2024
For the fourth edition of the race, riders will tackle plenty of climbing through the Anti-Atlas and High Atlas before dropping down to the wild Atlantic coast.
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Location: Marrakech, Morocco
Length: 1,300km
Elevation: 21,140m
Terrain: Off-road
Race Around Rwanda 2024
Started: 03:00, 4 February, 2024
The Race Around Rwanda is back. 2023 saw riders flock from around the world to tackle the 1000km race around the Land of 1000 Hills. This one is for the fast graveleurs.
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Location: Kigali, Rwanda
Length: 1,000km
Elevation: 15,000m
Terrain: All-road
GranGuanche Audax Road 2024
Started: 08:00, 28 January, 2024
The third edition of the Granguanche Audax Road is a self-supported, single-stage, fixed-route, endurance cycling event across the Canary Islands; a paved route with considerable elevation gain. In true audax spirit, riders must be self-supported but are allowed to ride together and draft one another.
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Location: Orzola, Lanzarote
Length: 650km
Elevation: 15,000m
Terrain: Road
Tour Te Waipounamu 2024
Started: 11:00, 27 January, 2024
A race the length of New Zealand's South Island on the land between the mountains and the plains, over many a pass and high country station through Te Waipounamu's many valleys and changing climate. A highly challenging and rewarding mountain bike event through a sometimes exposed and unforgiving landscape.
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Location: Cape Farewell, New Zealand
Length: 1,330km
Elevation: 21,500m
Terrain: Off-road
Fat Viking 2024
Started: 06:00, 27 January, 2024
With three distances on offer, this fat-biking snow race gives riders the chance to tackle the elements. Suitable for experienced cold weather cyclists, this adventure is the best way to kick off the season.
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Location: Geilo, Norway
Length: 50/100/150km
Elevation: 1090/2010/3160m
Terrain: Snow
GranGuanche Audax Trail 2023
Started: 12:00, 3 December, 2023
The third edition of the Granguanche Audax Trail is a self-supported, single-stage, fixed-route, endurance cycling event across the Canary Islands; an unpaved route with considerable elevation gain. In true audax spirit, riders must be self-supported but are allowed to ride together and draft one another.
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Location: Orzola, Spain
Length: 800km
Elevation: 20,000m
Terrain: Off-road
Across Andes 2023
Started: 09:00, 19 November, 2023
The 2023 edition of Across Andes is called Patagonia Verde as riders head further south than ever before into Chile's Aysén region known for its greenery, large glaciers, fjords, and snow-capped mountains. A ride at the end of the world.
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Location: Coyhaique, Chile
Length: 1,000km
Elevation: 15,000m
Terrain: Gravel
Bikingman X #3
Started: 23:00, 29 October, 2023
Bikingman X Race Tracking: A secretive race through Moroccan gravel hosted by the Bikingman team. With details yet to be revealed, this will be an exciting follow.
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Location: Marrakech, Morocco
Length: ???km
Elevation: ????m
Terrain: Gravel
Arizona Trail Race 2023
Started: 14:00, 19 October, 2023
A stalwart of the MTB bikepacking calendar: the Arizona Trail Race is known for its rough nature, extreme temperatures, long stretches without resupply and an arduous 23 mile hike-a-bike through the Grand Canyon. The AZTR regularly attracts some of the strongest off-road racers and has remained true to its original self-supported ethos.
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Location: Arizona, USA
Length: 1,330km / 490km
Elevation: 24,550m / 10,650m
Terrain: MTB
Ultrabiking Sardinia 2023
Started: 04:00, 12 October, 2023
UBS defines itself as an adventure dedicated to women and men who love to dream, know how to suffer and strongly believe in the values of sportsmanship. An idyllic end of the season Mediterranean adventure, but don't be fooled, it's no holiday.
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Location: Sardinia, Italy
Length: 790km
Elevation: 14,000m
Terrain: Road
Arkansas High Country Race 2023
Started: 24:00, 7 October, 2023
The Arkansas High Country Route has it all, there are three route options available taking in a plethora of sparkling streams, hills and hollows, shady rivers, mountain views, waterfalls, swimming holes, historic sites and bustling cities.
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Location: Hot Springs, Arkansas, USA
Length: 1,600km
Elevation: 23,000m
Terrain: Gravel
The Goats 2023
Started: 07:00, 2 October, 2023
The Goats is a gravel cycling challenge that takes place in the heart of Portugal. With the late season start and a selection of dirt roads to tackle, this race will entice the gravel riders to do one last ride in this incredible scenery.
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Location: Penhas da Saúde, Portugal
Length: 740km
Elevation: 16,500m
Terrain: Gravel
Istra Land 2023
Started: 06:00, 29 September, 2023
Istra Land has been designed to unveil the secrets of the three colors of Istria County: White Istria, as the limestones around the mountain peaks; Grey (or Yellow) Istria, as the fertile inner lands; and Red Istria, as the clayey land near the coastline.
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Location: Sežana, Slovenia
Length: 420km
Elevation: 6,000m
Terrain: Off-road
Trans Pyrenees Race 2023
Started: 05:00, 29 September, 2023
With four control points and two parcours, riders take on approximately 1,700km of the most spectacular and remote scenery in the Pyrenees from the Bay of Biscay on France's south west coast to the Balearic Sea on the south east and back again.
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Location: Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France
Length: ~1,700km
Elevation: ~40,000m
Terrain: All-Road
BikingMan Brazil #3
Started: 23:00, 24 September, 2023
In some of the oldest mountains in South America, riders will tackle the Mantiqueira Massif, known as the "mountains that cry" due to the numerous water sources, as well as the dense Atlantic forest and experience the famed Brazilian biodiversity and its multicultural society.
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Location: Santo Antônio do Pinhal, Brazil
Length: 1,000km
Elevation: 18,000m
The Southern Divide - Autumn Edition 2023
Started: 05:30, 21 September, 2023
This Southern Divide of the UK from Land's End on the Atlantic to the Kent coast uses ancient byways, mining trails, wild moors, forests, military gravel roads, and a bit of single-track, all sewn together with a few bits of tarmac. Riders are transported across the south coast along an ever changing landscape, where variety is the spice of life.
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Location: Land’s End, UK
Length: 670km
Elevation: 8,850m
Terrain: Gravel
Further East 2023
Started: 04:00, 15 September, 2023
Further East takes riders deep into the disorientating flatlands of the East of England on a gravel epic. It may be fast and flat but there's no rest or respite; what doesn't go up, can't come down again.
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Location: East Anglia, UK
Length: 685km
Elevation: 3980m
Terrain: Gravel
SUCH23
Started: 08:10, 6 September, 2023
The Swiss Ultra Cycling Challenge is a free-route ultra where riders have to pass through all 26 cantons (states) and additional checkpoints dotted around the country. The race always starts at any train station in Switzerland and finishes at the Bundesplatz in Berne. But this year there's a yet-to-be released twist.
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Location: Switzerland
Length: ~950km
Elevation: ~10,000m
Terrain: All-Road
BikingMan Euskadi #3
Started: 03:00, 4 September, 2023
Riders start on the wild Atlantic coast and head to the steep gradients of French Basque Country, before taking in some Tour de France icons of the Haute-Pyrenees, including the mythical cols of Aspin, Aubisque and Tourmalet.
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Location: Anglet, France
Length: 1,000km
Elevation: 23,000m
Terrain: Road
Badlands 2023
Started: 06:00, 3 September, 2023
Badlands is a true test of gravel skill. At 750km, this race is a difficult balance between non-stop riding or adventuring through the Spanish wilderness. With difficult terrain, sharp climbs and deserts to cross it'll be exciting from start to finish.
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Location: Granada, Spain
Length: 750km
Elevation: 15,000m
Terrain: Gravel