Peter Stetina, Flavia Oliveira Parks win Grasshopper Series remaining, Ukiah-Mendo Gravel Epic

Peter Stetina (Canyon) claimed victory on the Ukiah-Mendo Gravel Epic – the fourth and remaining professional males’s race within the Grasshopper Adventure Series – and in addition the general, whereas Flavia Oliveira Parks (Specialized) received the professional girls’s race and the ladies’s general collection standings.

The Californian occasion, which can also be a part of the Gravel Earth Series, lined 75 miles (120km) with 8,423 toes (2567m) of vertical ascent, utilising a personal logging street by 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 lovely, and figuring out 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 stated.

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,” stated Parks on the end, additionally sharing that through the use of 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 just needed to trip your personal tempo. I knew the climbs would go well with me, went arduous over the climbs to have a buffer, to not be put below stress on the descents or take pointless dangers.”

Low Gap 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.

In the ultimate general 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.

In the lads’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.

Results

Overall Standings