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BikingMan 555 Brazil #1 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.
Mar 8th 2024
Iditarod Trail Invitational 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.
Feb 25th 2024
Tour Aotearoa 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.
Feb 18th 2024
Atlas Mountain Race 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.
Feb 9th 2024
Recently on DotWatcher
Dales Divide Preview with Ali Macleod
Ali is a bikepacking aficionado and ultra-racing veteran. With plenty of races under his belt, he's shared his preview of the Dales Divide. After completing the treacherous 2021 Edition where a storm blew most riders off the fell, Ali definitely has some stories to share.
Mar 27th 2024
Roundtable: Night Starts
Starting a race in the dark is undeniably a spectacle. However, with concerns about riders' safety on the roads and the effect of a first sleepless night on a longer race, we put it to those with varying perspectives as to whether night starts have a place in our sport or not.
Mar 19th 2024
Roundtable: Mandatory Kit Requirements
In this roundtable we discuss the topic of mandatory kit for ultra distance races. With no governing body for the sport, race organisers have differing ideas about what kit is deemed essential for the particular conditions of their race. Read on for more on this important topic.
Mar 1st 2024
Five Minutes With... The Trans Pyrenees Race
Ahead of this year's fourth edition of the Trans Pyrenees Race, we sat down with the team at Lost Dot to explore how this year's TPR sticks to the Race's heritage of a double traverse of the Pyrenees but with a few twists along the way.
Feb 28th 2024