Wish to race Unbound Gravel in 2025? You may should throw your title within the hat by November 15, organisers introduced as we speak.
Unbound Gravel, as soon as a gathering of a pair dozen off-road fanatics, is now thought-about to be the world’s marquee gravel race with 4,000 riders converging on Emporia, Kansas, to sort out one in every of its 5 race programs.
The occasion attracts some 25,000 folks to the small city in the course of the Flint Hills, together with riders and their family members, employees, media, race followers and expo exhibitors. The neighborhood struggles to host, feed and home the inflow of individuals as it’s, which forces the organisers to cap the registration and implement a registration lottery to find out who can be allowed to take part within the occasion.
For the 2025 occasion, the lottery will happen sooner than ever earlier than, guaranteeing that riders can “tackle race day extra ready than ever,” introduced Life Time, the occasion’s organisers, in an electronic mail to previous members.
Registration for the 2025 Unbound Gravel will open on Friday, November 1, 2024, and shut two weeks later, on November 15. Lottery winners can be introduced on November 21, 2024.
”That’s a full two months sooner than in years previous, so use that further time to hone your effort…it doesn’t matter what distance you select,” Life Time states. “You’ll have extra time to coach, plan, and visualise your experience by means of the Flint Hills.”
Not like earlier years, the lottery registration interval is identical for all 5 race distances: the 25-, 50-, 100-, 200- and 350-mile occasions.
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Unbound Gravel 2025 Race Schedule
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- Unbound XL begins on Friday, Might 30, 2025
- The 25, 50, 100- and 200-mile races will begin on Saturday, Might 31, 2025
- Lottery registration deadline: November 15, 2024
- Lottery winners announcement: November 21, 2024
Extra methods to attain a bib
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In case you miss out on the lottery or just do not belief your luck, there are two different methods to attain a bib to the 2025 occasion.
1.) Partake in a qualifying race
You may as well punch your ticket to Emporia by conquering one in every of two qualifying races, one within the U.S. and one in Belgium:
Heathland Gravel
August 11, 2024 in Lindburg, Belgium
The Life Time Rad Filth Fest
September 28, 2024 in Trinidad, Colorado
2.) Fundraise for a charity entry
Life Time’s charity companions, the Life Time Basis and the Chris Klug Basis provide a restricted amount of race entries on a first-come, first-served foundation.
What’s Unbound Gravel?
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Previously referred to as the Soiled Kanza, Unbound Gravel is a mass-start occasion that takes place within the Tallgrass Prairie and Flint Hills round Emporia, Kansas, in the course of the USA.
With 5 race distances on provide and 4,000 attendees —amateurs and execs alike—, Unbound has grow to be the world’s marquee gravel occasion.
The flagship 200-mile course is a real check of endurance, self-sufficiency and tools. Along with needing to gasoline oneself for 11+ hours of driving, the sharp flint rocks are infamous for slicing tires and dashing podium aspirations. Alongside the best way, riders additionally must deal with the undulating terrain and the climate.
The epic situations have been constructing the legend of Unbound for years, and alongside the best way, the calibre of elite riders has soared with Olympic highway and mountain bike champions, Paris-Roubaix winners, and present and former WorldTour execs all taking to the beginning. The attract? Conquering the sheer issue and the bragging rights that include it.
This yr’s elite races had been gained by Lachlan Morton (EF Schooling-EasyPost) and newcomer Rosa Klöser (Rose Bikes / Maap / Enve). Earlier winners of the 200-mile race embrace former WorldTour execs Ian Boswell, Ted King and Alison Tetrick; professional mountain bikers Keegan Swenson and Sofia Gomez Villafañe; and Europeans Ivar Slik and Carolin Schiff.
