As gravel racing becomes an established category on the calendar, its success or failure will depend on how entertaining it is. Maybe the most legendary race in the world that’s not a Tour in France, is Paris-Roubaix, whose status as an icon of the sport is built on its brutal difficulty and the potential for course conditions to turn it into much more than a bike race.
The 2020 version of The Mid South race was a similar sort of event, and one that will be part of gravel racing lore, should such a thing ever become a thing. Wet, muddy, cold, all the ingredients were there, and epic battles played out on the “roads.” This little doc from Vermont Social captures action.