Jun 6 - Jun 18
Pyrenean Rally
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Girona · Alt Pirineu · Organised by Outer Detours
1800 km·Ultra·340€·Up to 99 participants
Two coasts, two disciplines, 1,800 km. The Pyrenean Rally’s second edition leaves Girona on the Mediterranean, crosses the range to the Atlantic on 900 km of gravel and rocky MTB-style trail, then returns by 900 km of paved Pyrenean cols - a 14-day window, a maximum of 99 riders, and a tyre swap at the halfway checkpoint that's the structural heart of the route.
The numbers are extreme even by ultra standards: 46,000 m of climbing total, 24,000 of that on the unpaved first half, with a couple of hours of mandatory hike-a-bike. The second half is a Tour de France pilgrimage in compressed form - 34 of cycling's most photographed cols, all paved, the climbing-metres tally still ticking up.
What makes the format different from old-school ultras: the #6HoursAlliance rule. Six hours of rest per day are mandatory, enforced via the tracker. The clock still counts, but the format takes the sleep-deprivation arms race and slows it back down to something humans can actually sustain.
One of Europe's most demanding gravel ultras, and one of the most thoughtfully designed.
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