Peter Stetina wins the elite males’s Ukiah Mendo Epic Gravel 2024(Picture credit score: Grasshopper Journey Sequence)
Flavia Oliveira Parks after successful the elite ladies’s Ukiah Mendo Epic Gravel 2024(Picture credit score: Grasshopper Journey Sequence)
Peter Stetina leads the elite males’s Ukiah Mendo Epic Gravel 2024(Picture credit score: Grasshopper Journey Sequence)
Tiffany Cromwell and Valtteri Bottas line as much as race the Ukiah Mendo Epic Gravel 2024(Picture credit score: Grasshopper Journey Sequence)
Peter Stetina (Canyon) claimed victory on the Ukiah-Mendo Gravel Epic – the fourth and last professional males’s race within the Grasshopper Journey Sequence – and in addition the general, whereas Flavia Oliveira Parks (Specialised) gained the professional ladies’s race and the ladies’s total sequence standings.
The Californian occasion, which can be a part of the Gravel Earth Sequence, lined 75 miles (120km) with 8,423 toes (2567m) of vertical ascent, utilising a non-public logging highway by way of the redwood, fir and oak forests of western Mendocino County.
Stetina gained the race in 3:58:48 and was the one rider to finish the course in sub-four hours. Tobin Ortenblad was second in 4:06:07 and Nick Spano was third in 4:14:54.
“The course was stunning, and understanding that the final stretch was tough pavement, I ran a quicker set-up that allowed me to make my transfer after the second feed zone with 50km to go. I went right into a turbo-diesel mode,” Stetina mentioned.
Oliveira Parks completed in 4:28:29, solely 70 seconds forward of Jennifer Tave. Leah Van der Linden, rounded out the rostrum with a ending time of 4:54:45.
“It was a demanding course,” mentioned Parks on the end, additionally sharing that through the use of a hydration pack, she was in a position to keep hydrated and fed and push over the climbs to be conservative on the descents.
“It was a type of days that you simply needed to experience your personal tempo. I knew the climbs would go well with me, went laborious over the climbs to have a buffer, to not be put underneath stress on the descents or take pointless dangers.”
Low Hole was the primary occasion of the Grasshopper sequence, gained by Kate Courtney and Christopher Blevins, then it was Huffmaster, the place Brennan Wertz and Oliveira Parks claimed the highest spot, whereas the third spherical, the Lake Sonoma MTB, was gained by Matthew Marotto and Vida Lopez Deson Roman.
Within the last total standings, Oliveira secured the victory with a complete of 175 factors, whereas runner-up Jennifer Tave and third-placed Leslie Ethridge tied with 158 factors every.
Within the males’s standings, Stetina completed with a complete of 170 factors to take the win, whereas runner-up Ben Frederick completed with 143 factors and third-placed Cassius Anderson had 133 factors.
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Prime 5 of Ukiah-Mendo Gravel Epic – professional ladies
