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"GranGuanche Audax Gravel is a self-supported, single-stage, fixed-route, ultra-cycling event across the Canary Islands. It’s a collective adventure and a challenge to finish the route. It’s a personal race against the clock, not against other riders."
I guess that's one way to get around the insurance requirements for a race. It's not unprecedented to have finish times and "winners" of an audax (I'm looking at you PBP) but it does feel a bit funny when they're penalising shortcutting riders for the rankings.
hippy-
self-supported...audax... gravel...ultra cycling... seems like someone in marketing got over excited.
Sure, there's a million of these events now and they need marketing and there's gravel bikes to sell, but given there's no recognition by any official body why not call it what it is. Audax is something else, it's not this.
honk
I don’t get this, kinda bugs me too. Surely it’s an Audax or a race?