The morning sun cuts through the Sonoran Desert as Lael Wilcox hammers up Mount Lemmon for the third time this week. After 500 miles already logged, she’s chasing the Saturday Shootout group ride back in Tucson. This is the same rider who one year ago, on September 11, 2024, completed an 18,125-mile circumnavigation of...
Cynthia Carson was already wondering what lay beyond the race course. After years dominating criteriums and gravel events across the US, the woman known as “Watt Wagon” kept finding herself riding longer, thinking about what it would be like to ride somewhere and not return home that night. “I am a racer at heart...
How the gravel champion discovered that cross training can be more than just winter survival Ian Boswell spent seven years racing at cycling’s highest level, including the 2018 Tour de France. Now the 2021 Unbound Gravel champion is adding a new dimension to his training: running. And surprisingly, for someone whose life has been...