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Iditarod Trail Invitational 2024

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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