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 girls’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 ultimate professional males’s race within the Grasshopper Journey Sequence – and likewise the general, whereas Flavia Oliveira Parks (Specialised) received the professional girls’s race and the ladies’s total collection standings.
The Californian occasion, which can also be a part of the Gravel Earth Sequence, lined 75 miles (120km) with 8,423 toes (2567m) of vertical ascent, utilising a personal logging highway by way of the redwood, fir and oak forests of western Mendocino County.
Stetina received 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 sooner 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 by utilizing a hydration pack, she was capable of keep hydrated and fed and push over the climbs to be conservative on the descents.
“It was a kind of days that you simply needed to trip your individual tempo. I knew the climbs would swimsuit me, went exhausting over the climbs to have a buffer, to not be put beneath stress on the descents or take pointless dangers.”
Low Hole was the primary occasion of the Grasshopper collection, received 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 received by Matthew Marotto and Vida Lopez Deson Roman.
Within the ultimate 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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High 5 of Ukiah-Mendo Gravel Epic – professional girls
