Lauren De Crescenzo (Issue-The Feed-Castelli-Maxxis) gained her fourth consecutive title at The Rad Filth Fest final weekend in Trinidad, Colorado. Whereas De Crescenzo soloed for victory on the acquainted 110-mile course, Cole Davis (Undertaking Echelon Racing) earned his first gravel victory in solely his second try.
The brand new queen of the Rad Filth crossed the road in 6:01:45, good for a 30-minute margin to runner-up Ruby Ryan of Durango, and he or she was thirteenth total amongst ladies and men within the mass begin occasion.
“The terrain is relentless. The climbs are lengthy and unforgiving, and also you’re even pedaling on the ‘downhills’. I’d like to see it again within the Life Time Grand Prix sometime.”
Unbound Gravel opens 2026 lottery November 1
Life Time, the house owners of Unbound Gravel held in Emporia, Kansas, introduced that the lottery window for the 2026 occasions will open on November 1 at 12:00 p.m. CST for the twentieth anniversary of the occasion.
Riders can register for the 25, 50, 100, 200-mile rides and the Unbound XL that’s 350 miles. The lottery window will shut on November 21.
Separate from the lottery choice, people can acquire entry by taking part in a four-day camp subsequent April in Emporia, the Life Time Unbound Gravel Coaching Camp introduced by Shimano. The associated fee for a camp-Unbound entry combo is $2,200, good on your alternative of 100, 200 or 350-mile Unbound occasion later within the yr. Camp registration opens October 15.
Subsequent yr Unbound XL begins on Friday, Could 29 whereas the opposite 4 distances might be contested on Saturday, Could 30.
Belgian Waffle Journey confirms 2026 four-race sequence, opens registration October 14
October is right here and it means registration time for a lot of US gravel and multi-surface races. The 4 US-based Belgian Waffle Journey occasions that comprise subsequent season’s Quad-Tripel Crown of Gravel will start accepting registrations on October 14, at 8:00 a.m. PST. The 4 occasions embody: BWR Arizona on February 28, BWR California on Could 3, BWR Utah June 13 and BWR Montana on June 20.
The Quad-Tripel Crown was launched this season, with sequence winners determined from the highest factors earned at three of 4 of the races. For 2026, people who register for the sequence can pay for 3 occasions and obtain the fourth occasion without cost, in line with organisers Monuments of Biking.
This yr two of the stand-alone BWR occasions are but to happen, BWR North Carolina on October 4 and BWR Mexico on November 23. Registrations are nonetheless out there for these ultimate occasions of the 2025 season.
Blevins on tempo for MTB World Sequence double titles in XCC and XCO
This weekend, October 3-5, Lake Placid, New York will host the penultimate rounds of the UCI MTB World Sequence for endurance and gravity disciplines, with the downhill races being held at Whiteface Mountain and the XCC/XCO races at Mt Van Hoevenberg.
Again on his dwelling turf, USA’s Christopher Blevins (Specialised Manufacturing facility Racing) appears to be like to make historical past.
By eight of 10 rounds of the World Sequence, Blevins leads each the elite males’s XCO and quick observe (XCC) standings. Ought to Blevins wrap up his season in two weeks at Mont-Sainte-Anne in Canada atop the standings, he would turn into the primary elite males’s rider to win each the XCC and XCO titles in a single World Cup season, courting again to 2018 when XCC joined the sequence. In 2024 Alessandra Keller swept the 2 disciplines for elite girls.
Amongst different North American riders, Canadian Ella MacPhee (Wilier-Vittoria Manufacturing facility Group) is second total within the girls’s U23 XCO standings and third in XCC for U23s.
