My experience at the UCI Gravel World Series gravel race, Hutchinson Ranxo, in Ponts, Catalunya, Spain. Among the competition were 2018 road World Champion, Alejandro Valverde and current Movistar WorldTour pro cyclist, Ivan Garcia Cortina.
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00:00 Intro
00:45 About the Ranxo
02:47 BMC race bike
04:18 Race day
05:42 KM1
10:23 Post-race thoughts
11:53 How the race unfolded
12:54 WorldTour cyclist power output
16:37 Feed zones
18:25 Disappointment
19:50 What I learned
This race was a qualifying round for the UCI Gravel World Championships happening in Veneto, Italy at the start of October. Last year gravel World Champs was dominated by Alpecin–Deceuninck team rider Gianni Vermeersch, along with Daniel Oss, Mathiew Van Der Poel, Peter Sagan, Greg Van Avermaet, Magnus Cort-Nielsen, Piotr Havik, Alessandro De Marchi, Nathan Haas and Lachlan Morton. The women's race was won by Pauline Ferrand-Privot, Sara Mazzorana and Chiara Ciuffini. The Hutchinson Ranxo featured more than 800 male and female riders across three different race distances, including multiple road, gravel and mountain bike professional cyclists who live in Girona, Catalunya, Andorra and France.
