The gun lastly sounded on the inaugural TransRockies Gravel Royale Aug. 22 after COVID-19 delayed it for a 12 months. When the mud cleared after 4 levels of gravel racing at the moment, two Canadian cyclists got here out on prime.
British Columbians Rob Britton and Rach McBride claimed prime honors on the 2022 TransRockies Gravel Royale, which concluded at the moment in Fernie, British Columbia. Britton and McBride outpaced a subject of greater than 200 riders from eight international locations within the race, which led athletes by means of 200 miles of wildly picturesque Canadian mountain surroundings.
Britton halted the clock after 12 hours, 5 minutes, 38 seconds to win general. McBride received the ladies’s division in 14 hours, 20 minutes, 47 seconds. Britton’s effort earned him his first skilled gravel win.
“This was my first gravel stage race, and the group from TransRockies did a heck of a job taking good care of us. Completed and dusted and blissful to get a win at this race and my first win as a gravel professional,” he mentioned.
The route’s 4 levels consisted of 84% gravel street, 10% pavement, 5% doubletrack, and 1% singletrack. They coated 25,000 ft of climbing from the Panorama Mountain Resort alongside Springs Creek to the end line in Fernie.
Different host areas alongside the circuitous, south-trending route included the Nipika Mountain Resort and the Village of Canal Flats, British Columbia.
McBride spoke to the standard of the course and the camaraderie that enlivened the racing expertise.
“This race is unquestionably in contrast to the rest I’ve skilled in gravel racing up to now. The programs, the multiday facet, and the tent tenting — it actually all has been a implausible expertise and so enjoyable to be surrounded by the gravel group all week,” she mentioned.
Simply minutes demarcated the lads’s prime podium. In the meantime, McBride received the ladies’s race extra handily.
Ladies’s Podium
- Rach McBride, Vancouver, B.C. — 14:20:47
- Lauren Cantwell, Reno, Nev. — 15:13:11
- Lindsay Glassford, Panorama, B.C. — 15:37:41
Males’s Podium
- Rob Britton, Victoria, B.C. — 12:05:38
- Caleb Swartz, Missoula, Mont. — 12:14:45
- Josiah Middaugh, Vail, Colo. — 12:17:53
Full outcomes weren’t but out there on the TransRockies Gravel Royale web site as of this writing. TransRockies motion picks proper again up the place it left off in Fernie for the SingleTrack 6 on Sept. 6-11.
