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DEAD ENDS & cake
Starts: 06:00, 24 June, 2022
A free-route adventure with five checkpoints, each at the end of a dead end path, to explore the most beautiful, remote places of eastern Switzerland.
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Location: Sankt Gallen, Switzerland
Length: 500km
Elevation: 9,000m
Terrain: Gravel
Pennine Rally
Starts: 06:00, 21 June, 2022
The Pennine Rally is a 500km and 10,000m off-road rally from Edinburgh to Manchester. With an express route over 4 days and the rally over 5 find out what the 100 riders get up to.
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Location: Edinburgh, UK
Length: 500km
Elevation: 10,000m
Terrain: Off-road
HOPE 1000
Starts: 06:00, 18 June, 2022
The HOPE 1000 rolls out from the Swiss shores of Lake Constance to the finish at the Freddie Mercury statue in Montreux. A true mountain race that can challenge riders with heat and storms, all in one day.
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Location: Romanshorn, Switzerland
Length: 1,000km
Elevation: 31,000m
Terrain: MTB
Tour Divide
Starts: 14:00, 10 June, 2022
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, with a few diversions to spice it up.
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Location: Banff, Canada
Length: 4,440km
Elevation: 45,600m
Terrain: Off-road
Trans Am Bike Race
Starts: 24:00, 5 June, 2022
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
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Transpyrenees
Starts: 06:00, 25 June, 2022
The fixed route of Transpyrenees takes riders from the Mediterranean Pyrenees in the North East of Spain, through the Pyrenees Central and finishes at the wild Atlantic Pyrenees.
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Location: Llançà, Spain
Length: 1,080km
Elevation: 25,000m
Terrain: Road
Three Peaks Bike Race
Starts: 24:00, 9 July, 2022
One for the grimpeurs. A free-route race between three notorious European climbs: Tre Cime di Lavaredo, Melchsee and Colle del Nivolet, featuring Mt Ventoux as the gateway to the final parcours and finish in Nice, France.
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Location: Vienna, Austria
Length: 2,150km
Terrain: Road
Pan Celtic Race
Starts: 24:00, 10 July, 2022
A race around a selection of the Celtic Nations will take riders from Wales to Ireland and back including two ferry journeys, much climbing and whatever the Celtic summer weather throws at riders.
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Location: St David's, Wales
Length: 2,531km
Elevation: 26,075m
Terrain: Road
Perfidious Albion
Starts: 24:00, 16 July, 2022
A very Great British adventure from the North to the South of the island through Scotland, Wales and England, tackling iconic British climbs.
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Location: Lockerbie, Scotland
Length: 1,600km
Elevation: 23,000m
Terrain: Road
Transcontinental No8
Starts: 20:00, 24 July, 2022
Europe's most iconic bikepacking race is back for its eighth edition. Between the start in Geraardsbergen, Belgium and finish in Burgas, Bulgaria, the TCRNo8 dots will navigate to the four checkpoints: Krupka in Czech Republic, Passo di Gavia in the Italian Alps, Montenegro's Durmitor National Park and the Transalpina in Romania.
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Location: Geraardsbergen, Belgium
Length: 4,000km
Elevation: 40,000m
Terrain: Road
Basajaun
Starts: 24:00, 29 July, 2022
The inaugural edition of Basajuan from the organisers of TransIberica and Transpyrenees takes riders through some of the Basque Country's undiscovered paths and its vastly diverse landscapes.
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Location: Vitoria, Spain
Length: 760km
Elevation: 15,000m
Terrain: Gravel
Great British Divide
Starts: 09:00, 30 July, 2022
The second edition of the Great British Divide is set to be wildly exciting; big names, high passes, rough terrain, unreliable ferries and undoubtedly a good sprinkling of the notorious British weather.
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Location: Canterbury, UK
Length: 2,000km
Elevation: 40,000m
Terrain: MTB
French Divide
Starts: 23:00, 5 August, 2022
A north to south crossing of France through some of its most iconic off-road tracks, as well as the lesser known stretches.
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Location: Dunkirk, France
Length: 2,240km
Elevation: 38,000m
Terrain: MTB
London Edinburgh London
Starts: 05:00, 7 August, 2022
The world acclaimed audax London Edinburgh London is a 1500km self-supported cycle ride across the United Kingdom, between the iconic capital cities of England and Scotland.
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Location: London, UK
Length: 1500km
Elevation: 13,400m
Terrain: Road
Silk Road Mountain Race
Starts: 14:00, 12 August, 2022
Kyrgystan offers one of the wildest and most inhospitable environments for a bikepacking race with its often harsh unpredictable mountain weather, which is all the more reason to dotwatch!
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Location: Kyrgyzstan
Length: 1.900km
Elevation: 34,500m
Terrain: Mixed-terrain
GBDURO
Starts: 23:00, 12 August, 2022
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: 1,970km
Elevation: 26,700m
Terrain: Mixed-terrain
TransIbérica
Starts: 23:00, 12 August, 2022
A free-route race starting and finishing in Bilbao which requires riders to tick off the 10 checkpoints and parcours across Spain, including one French Pyreneen CP and a gravel parcours in the Spanish Pyrenees.
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Location: Bilbao, Spain
Length: 3,300km
Terrain: Road
Bentang Jawa
Starts: 23:00, 13 August, 2022
Back after a stellar inaugural event last year, Bentang Jawa is back as the first unsupported ultra cycling race across Java Island, Indonesia.
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Location: Jawa Island, Indonesia
Length: 1,500km
Elevation: 16,000m
Terrain: Road
Further Perseverance
Starts: 23:00, 25 August, 2022
Camille McMillan's original Further race kicks off from an unusual start at the Refuge de Ruhle, a pyreneen refuge at an altitude of 2,185m to which riders’ kit will be portaged via a mule train the day before. There's never a dull moment at a race organised by Camille McMillan.
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Location: French Pyrenees
Terrain: Mixed-terrain
Race Across UK
Starts: 23:00, 26 August, 2022
New to the calendar and based on Race Across France, RAUK offers riders four distances (300, 500, 1,000, 2,500km) and is semi-supported. Riders are required to ride in the spirit of self-supported racing but the checkpoints offer food, a bed, and mechanical and medicinal assistance.
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Location: Great Britain
Length: 2,500km
Elevation: 33,000m
Terrain: Road
Badlands
Starts: 23:00, 3 September, 2022
A race renowned for its diverse landscapes and attracting some names well known from within and outside of the sport. From deserts to forests, coasts to summits, Badlands has it all. And all the drama.
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Location: Granada, Spain
Length: 750km
Elevation: 15,000m
Terrain: Gravel
Two Volcano Sprint
Starts: 03:00, 12 October, 2022
A staple of the ultra calendar which has become the European season finale, 2VS is Juliana Buhring's offering to the ultra world and initiative to promote eco-sustainability in South Italy. A road route between Mount Vesuvio and Mount Etna with some spicy climbs and terrain in between.
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Location: Mt. Vesuvio, Italy
Length: 1,100km
Elevation: 24,000m
Terrain: Road
Rhino Run
Starts: 05:22, 21 October, 2022
Rhino Run describes itself as an immersive ultra-endurance expedition with a mandatory donation to the Masaka Cycling Club in Uganda. "The Rhino" is the race organiser, Ryan Flinn, who will give himself a head start and all competitors will be tasked with chasing him down over the succeeding 2,750km of mixed-terrain riding. An all-star cast are set to race this inaugural event.
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Location: Plettenberg Bay, South Africa
Length: 2,750km
Elevation: 27,100m
Terrain: Mixed-terrain
Across Andes
Starts: 23:00, 26 November, 2022
This race traversing South America’s cordillera has served racers and dotwatchers with some of the most exquisite landscapes and tales of racing. For the 2022 edition the route is largely unchanged, much to our delight!
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Location: Chile
Length: 1,030km
Elevation: 15,000m
Terrain: Mixed-terrain
Past races
Taunus Bikepacking
Starts: 05:00, 12 June, 2022
The challenging 1000 km route takes riders over unbeaten paths along numerous sights of a remote region in the heart of Germany.
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Location: Eppstein, Germany
Length: 1,000km
Elevation: 18,300m
Terrain: Mixed-terrain
TransAtlantic Way
Starts: 24:00, 9 June, 2022
This race along the Wild Atlantic Way on the west coast of Ireland returns for 2022.
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Location: Derry, Ireland
Length: 2,500km
Elevation: 29,100m
Terrain: Road
Trans Balkan Race
Starts: 06:00, 3 June, 2022
A brand new unsupported race across the Balkans opens up some new trails for dotwatchers! Riders will pass through the stunning National Park of the Dinaric Alps, crossing Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro via some gravel roads, paths and tarmac.
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Location: Slovenia to Montenegro
Length: 1,300km
Elevation: 27,000m
Terrain: Off-road
All Points North
Starts: 08:00, 2 June, 2022
Northern England's free route race offers a dotwatcher's delight as riders meander between the 10 checkpoints on the rough and exposed English countryside on a wide variety of routes. This year's edition includes some out-and-back checkpoints and some unavoidable tough climbs.
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Location: Sheffield, England
Length: ~1,000km
Terrain: Road
MittelgebirgeClassique
Starts: 04:00, 29 May, 2022
The inaugural edition of this climber's race crossing between Germany and France which takes riders through the low mountain ranges of the Palatinate Forest, Black Forest and Vosges.
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Location: Neustadt an der Weinstraße, Germany
Length: 1,088km
Elevation: 24,000m
Terrain: Road
Highland Trail 550
Starts: 07:30, 28 May, 2022
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, bad 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
Bohemian Border Bash Race
Starts: 03:58, 28 May, 2022
The second edition of the Bohemian Border Bash Race follows the ancient borderlands of Bohemia via the remnants of centuries-old road networks that still exist to this day. The riders will compete on an approximately 1300km long journey circumnavigating Bohemia - crossing back-and-forth along national borders - riding through Germany, Austria, Poland, and the Czech Republic.
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Location: Jetřichovice, Czech Republic
Length: 1345km
Elevation: 23730m
Terrain: Gravel
Heading SouthWest
Starts: 07:00, 21 May, 2022
An offering of Portugal's diverty to the ultra-community; this new race leads riders from the centre of Portugal through mountains, plains and the coast to the Algarve.
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Location: Coimbra, Portugal
Length: 1,000km
Elevation: 15,000m
Terrain: Road
Race Through Poland
Starts: 04:00, 21 May, 2022
The fourth edition of Race Through Poland returns to crossing borders once again with the start and finish in Poland and the 4 checkpoints and parcours in Slovakia, Poland and Czech Republic.
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Location: Kraków, Poland
Length: 1,500km
Elevation: 20,000m
Terrain: Road
Kromvojoj
Starts: 18:00, 20 May, 2022
An 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, Tarragona, Spain
Length: 1,400km
Elevation: 24,000m
Seven Serpents
Starts: 24:00, 15 May, 2022
A free-route race between seven checkpoints from Slovenia through Croatia and its islands into Trieste, Italy via gravel and secondary roads.
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Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia
Length: 800km
Elevation: 15,000m
Terrain: Gravel
The Wild West Country
Starts: 08:00, 6 May, 2022
A new race for 2022, the Wild West Country is a display of some of the finest roads in the South West of England and ticking off some National Parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
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Location: Tetbury, UK
Length: 800km
Elevation: 11,000m
Terrain: Road
Race around the Netherlands
Starts: 06:00, 30 April, 2022
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 and is devoid of rest.
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Location: Amerongen, Netherlands
Length: 1,957km
Elevation: 6,800m
Terrain: Road
Italy Divide
Starts: 06:00, 23 April, 2022
Italy's original mixed-terrain race is back for another year's racing. A season opener for off-road European racers, it's always a great watch as many riders have kick-started a fruitful season from these hillsides.
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Location: Rome, Italy
Length: 1,250km
Elevation: 22,000m
Terrain: Gravel
Dales Divide
Starts: 07:00, 15 April, 2022
This 600km route traverses two of the UK's National Parks: The Yorkshire Dales and the North York Moors. 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: 9,000m
Terrain: Off-Road
GranGuanche Audax Gravel
Starts: 21:00, 19 March, 2022
The first 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
Length: 700km
Elevation: 16,000m
Terrain: Gravel
Race Around Rwanda
Starts: 02:00, 19 March, 2022
1,000km in the Land of a Thousand Hills. Rwanda's first bikepacking race is back since 2020 to delight our screens with its beautiful landscapes, locals and unpredictable weather.
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Location: Kigali, Rwanda
Length: 981km
Elevation: 17,000m
Terrain: Road/gravel
Iditarod Trail Invitational
Starts: 23:00, 27 February, 2022
This Alaskan winter adventure on bicycle, foot or skis is revered as one of the hardest ultra-marathons in the world and demands flawless preparation and resilience.
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Location: Knik Lake, Anchorage
Length: 565/1,600km
Elevation: 18,176m
Terrain: Snow
Tour Te Waipounamu
Starts: 18:00, 22 January, 2022
Back for its second edition, New Zealand's roughest race traversing the Southern Island from North to South.
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Location: Cape Farewell, New Zealand
Length: 1,330km
Elevation: 23,390m
Terrain: MTB
Across Andes 2021
Starts: 08:00, 28 November, 2021
A Chilean adventure taking riders through the Andean mountains in a figure of eight route.
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Location: Melipeuco, Chile
Length: 1,017km
Elevation: 14,520m
Terrain: Mixed
Two Volcano Sprint 2021
Starts: 03:00, 15 October, 2021
The riders of Two Volcano Sprint are about to erupt into a display of power and endurance.
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Location: Nicolosi, Italy
Length: 1,183km
Elevation: 26,212m
Terrain: Road
Bentang Jawa 2021
Starts: 22:30, 2 October, 2021
Bentang Jawa is an unsupported ultra cycling race across Java Island, Indonesia.
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Location: Carita Beach, Indonesia
Length: 1,500km
Elevation: 16,000m
Terrain: Road
Caroline & David Cycle The World
Starts: 07:00, 26 September, 2021
Caroline Soubayroux and David Ferguson attempt to set the first pairs Guiness World Record for Fastest Circumnavigation by Bicycle.
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Location: Whitehorse, Alaska
Race Through Poland 2021
Starts: 08:00, 25 September, 2021
Race Through Poland is a single stage 1,500km bicycle race through the Carpathian Mountains.
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Location: Wroclaw, Poland
Length: 1,500km
Elevation: 19,500m
Terrain: Road
FURTHER EAST 2021
Starts: 04:00, 17 September, 2021
FURTHER EAST takes riders into the unknown East of England.
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Location: Cambridge, England
Length: 642km
Elevation: 6,389m
Terrain: Mixed-terrain
Badlands 2021
Starts: 06:00, 5 September, 2021
Back for its second edition, Badlands is sure to provide a superb dotwatching spectacle as some of Europe's best racers take to the 748km route traversing Spain's finest gravel roads. It'll be hot. It'll be high. And it'll be rough.
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Location: Granada, Spain
Length: 748km
Elevation: 16,000m
Terrain: Gravel
All Points North 2021
Starts: 04:00, 4 September, 2021
England's North has a reputation for being one of the most rugged, steep and exposed places to take a bike on tarmac. Riders have 10 checkpoints to reach in the order they feel is most efficient, or scenic! This is a race that favours the most well prepared riders who have struck their perfect balance of minimising both distance and elevation on their route which will tick off the East and West Coasts of Northern England traversing the Yorkshire Dales, North York Moors and the lumps in between.
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Location: Sheffield, UK
Length: ~1,000km
Terrain: Road
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Location: Jetřichovice, Czech Republic
Length: 1,300km
Elevation: 22,000m
Terrain: Gravel
TransIbérica 2021
Starts: 19:00, 14 August, 2021
2,750km of diverse Iberian riding awaits riders at the start line of this year's event. There are 9 checkpoints to self-route between through some of the Iberian Peninsula's most beautiful and scenic spots.
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Location: Bilbao, Spain
Length: 2,750km
Elevation: 38,000m
Terrain: Road
GBDURO21
Starts: 07:00, 14 August, 2021
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 South West of Great Britain right up to Scotland's John O'Groats.
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Location: Land's End, UK
Length: 1,963km
Elevation: 29,750m
Terrain: Off-road
Silk Road Mountain Race 2021
Starts: 16:00, 13 August, 2021
Kyrgystan offers one of the wildest and most inhospitable environments for a bikepacking race, which is all the more reason to dotwatch! With some of the world's finest racers targetting this race as their 2021 halo event, we're sure to see some blisteringly fast racing. But don't forget, this is Kyrgystan. And, anything can happen.
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Location: Talas, Kyrgyzstan
Length: 1,805km
Elevation: 29,450m
Terrain: Off-Road
Hungarian Divide 2021
Starts: 07:00, 13 August, 2021
The Hungarian Divide is the ultimate MTB adventure challenge through Hungary. Although Hungary may be thought of as flat, it very much isn't! It is most suitable for a MTB, as we cross all mountain highlights of the country, including its highest peak: the Kékes at 1,014m. The categories are SOLO (unsupported) and TOUR (support allowed)
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Location: Smaragdvölgy, Hungary
Length: 1,428km
Elevation: 23,644
Terrain: MTB
Great British Divide 2021
Starts: 09:00, 31 July, 2021
The inaugural edition of the Great British Divide is set to be wildly exciting; big names, high passes, rough terrain, unreliable ferries and undoubtedly a good sprinkling of the notorious British weather.
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Location: Canterbury, England
Length: 2,126.5km
Elevation: 31,089m
Terrain: MTB
Three Peaks Bike Race 2021
Starts: 06:00, 10 July, 2021
A self-routed race from Vienna to Barcelona via three checkpoints consisting of a selection of the hardest climbs in Europe: Mangart Saddle, Männlichen and Col du Tourmalet.
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Location: Vienna, Austria
Length: 2,450km
Elevation: 39,400m
Terrain: Road
TransAtlantic Way 2021
Starts: 04:00, 8 July, 2021
This race along the Wild Atlantic Way on the west coast of Ireland returns for 2021. Riders will follow the set route to Derry city in Northern Ireland. From there the first part of the race is 250km to checkpoint 1 at Fanad Lighthouse in Co. Donegal. Leaving checkpoint 1 the race follows the Wild Atlantic Way to Cork city. There are 2 route options. Riders can choose between the longer or the shorter route or simply decide to mix both.
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Location: Dublin, Ireland
Length: 2,500km
Elevation: 29,100m
Terrain: Road
Pan Celtic Race 2021
Starts: 07:00, 4 July, 2021
Second edition of PCR takes riders through two Celtic Nations: from the depths of Cornwall to Wales. An unrelenting course with a great line-up of riders who are riding head first into the poor weather forecast.
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Location: Cornwall, UK
Length: 1,999km
Elevation: 27,989m
Terrain: Road
Italy Divide 2021
Starts: 06:00, 3 July, 2021
Italy Divide is in its fifth year, and on Saturday 3rd July at 10.30am riders will follow a set route (but without checkpoints) for 1250km and climb 22,000m of altitude gain over 4-7 days of riding on their northbound travel from Pompei to Lake Garda.
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Location: Rome, Italy
Length: 1,250km
Elevation: 22,000m
Terrain: Gravel
Transpyrenees 2021
Starts: 06:00, 27 June, 2021
Transpyrenees 2021 is a 1,080km single stage, unsupported race across the Pyrenees, which takes in 36 cols and +25,000m of elevation gain.
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Location: Llançà, Spain
Length: 1,080km
Elevation: 27,000m
Terrain: Road
HOPE 1000 2021
Starts: 06:00, 19 June, 2021
The 7th edition of the HOPE 1000 will roll out from the Swiss shores of Lake Constance, snaking 87 riders to meet with Freddy at the finish line in Montreux. The route remains largely unchanged, despite persistent snowfields on the high ground, and Covid has meant a local line up with 54% of riders from Switzerland. HOPE 1000 2021 is going to be full of surprises no doubt!
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Location: Romanshorn, Switzerland
Length: 1,000km
Elevation: 31,000m
Terrain: MTB
Tour Divide (Great Divide Classic) 2021
Starts: 11:00, 11 June, 2021
The original bikepacking race faces the biggest route adjustment ever; with no Canadian leg, the route has been reduced to a border to border race. An All-American roster means this edition is set to be an exciting and unique year.
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Location: Canada/US border
Length: 3,995km
Elevation: 43,098m
Terrain: MTB
Highland Trail 550 2021
Starts: 07:05, 22 May, 2021
A race designed to prep organiser Alan Goldsmith for the Colorado Trail Race has become the flagship UK MTB bikepacking race. With hours of hike-a-bike and the most unpredictable weather the British Isles have to offer, the HT550 is a race that cannot be missed.
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Location: Tyndrum, Scotland
Length: 880km
Elevation: 16000m
Terrain: MTB
Race Around the Netherlands 2021
Starts: 07:00, 1 May, 2021
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: 1,913km
Elevation: 4,164m
Terrain: Road
Dales Divide 2021
Starts: 07:00, 1 May, 2021
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: 607km
Elevation: 7,510m
Terrain: Off-Road
Tuatara 1000 2021
Starts: 22:00, 26 February, 2021
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 2021
Starts: 19:00, 26 February, 2021
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 2021
Starts: 19:00, 13 February, 2021
The inaugural Tour Te Waipounamu is the brain child of Brian Alder, a veteran of the sport and a lifelong mountaineer. With experience and inspiration 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. A competitive domestic line up includes a former Tour Divide record holder and seven race veterans, Terra Australis victor and a French Divide and Bohemia Divide winner. The MAProgress page has been made password protected at the request of the organiser due to the extent of private land.
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Location: Cape Farewell, New Zealand
Length: 1,319km
Elevation: 22,810m
Terrain: MTB
Journey Around Rwanda 2021
Starts: 06:30, 29 January, 2021
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
Two Volcano Sprint 2020
Starts: 04:30, 18 October, 2020
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 2020
Starts: 20:00, 20 September, 2020
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: 2,800km
Terrain: Road
Badlands 2020
Starts: 07:00, 6 September, 2020
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
Trans Atlantic Way 2020
Starts: 09:00, 3 September, 2020
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
Dales Divide 2020
Starts: 07:00, 29 August, 2020
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
Race Around The Netherlands 2020
Starts: 06:00, 29 August, 2020
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
Transpyrenees 2020
Starts: 20:00, 22 August, 2020
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: 07:00, 1 August, 2020
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
Three Peaks Bike Race 2020
Starts: 04:00, 25 July, 2020
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: 04:00, 20 June, 2020
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: 24:00, 16 March, 2020
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
Atlas Mountain Race 2020
Starts: 08:00, 15 February, 2020
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
Rich Seipp's Winter HT550 ITT
Starts: 09:00, 1 December, 2019
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 2019
Starts: 04:30, 7 November, 2019
The cherry on top of a brilliant year's racing.
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Location: Naples, Italy
Length: 1100km
Terrain: Road
TransIbérica 2019
Starts: 20:00, 1 September, 2019
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: 03:00, 18 August, 2019
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: 03:00, 27 July, 2019
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: 20:00, 29 June, 2019
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: 07:00, 22 June, 2019
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: 14:00, 14 June, 2019
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
TransAtlantic Way 2019
Starts: 09:30, 6 June, 2019
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
Trans America Bike Race 2019
Starts: 12:00, 2 June, 2019
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
Highland Trail 550 2019
Starts: 08:00, 25 May, 2019
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 2019
Starts: 12:00, 25 April, 2019
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: 20:22, 31 August, 2018
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 2018
Starts: 23:00, 17 August, 2018
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
Transcontinental Race 2018
Starts: 20:00, 29 July, 2018
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
Jenny Graham 'Round-the-World' Record
Starts: 23:00, 15 June, 2018
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 2018
Starts: 06:00, 8 June, 2018
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
TransAtlantic Way 2018
Starts: 10:00, 7 June, 2018
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
Trans Am Bike Race
Starts: 07:00, 2 June, 2018
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
Highland Trail 550 2018
Starts: 08:00, 26 May, 2018
The Highland Trail 550 is an self-supported mountain bike race held annually in the Scottish Highlands. With its beautiful scenery, remote environments, and dreamy mountain bike trails, the race has developed a reputation as a must-do event for serious off-road ultra racers. "No entry fee, no prize money, and definitely no support."
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Italy Divide 2018
Starts: 18:00, 25 April, 2018
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