Basajaun 2022

Race Report · Gravel / Bikepacking · 2022 Basajaun Five self-supported days of gravel through the Basque Country and Navarre · July–August 2022 · with Bruno Inça Just twenty days after the Ironman in Vitoria, and out of the very same Plaza de España where I’d finished it, I set off on the Basajaun: some 500 miles (800 km) of

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BikingMan Portugal 2022

Race Report · Ultracycling / Bikepacking · 2022 BikingMan Portugal The comeback to racing, eight months on — three days across the Algarve and Alentejo · May 2–4, 2022 After a start to the year that was hard to digest, and still finishing off the recovery, this was my first race in eight months. Alert, and full of respect for

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Race Across Germany 2021

Race Report · Ultracycling · 2021 Race Across Germany 800 km nonstop, Aachen to Görlitz — qualifying for RAAM · September 10, 2021 Early that year I had drawn up a short list of ultra-distance races, and when the Race Around Denmark was canceled I left a query with the organizer — Dieter Göpfert — about the Race Across Germany.

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