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Congrats to Lael Wilcox, First Woman to Finish the 2023 Tour Divide

Previous Dispatch From Mon Jun 26, 2023

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Our congratulations go out to Lael Wilcox, the first rider to cross the finish line in the 2023 Tour Divide women’s category! Find a few photos from the finish and more about Lael’s ride here…

Photos by Bekka Mongeau for Revelate Designs and Rugile Kaladyte

Just a few of hours ago, 36-year-old Alaskan endurance cyclist Lael Wilcox pedaled the final few miles of New Mexican tarmac to reach the finish line of the 2023 Tour Divide. Lael rolled into Antelope Wells at 3:00 a.m. local time, taking first place in the women’s category with a finish time of 16 days and 20 hours (16d:20h:00m). It appears Lael rode through the night to finish the race and had a 125-mile lead over Katya Rakhmatulina, who will likely finish this evening in the second-place spot.

Overall, Lael had an excellent race and maintained her usual positive outlook, although she reported suffering from lung issues and dehydration mid-ride and had to visit a health clinic to receive IV fluids a few days ago. As she summed it up on Instagram: “My lungs and throat are torched. I got sick and severely dehydrated in Northern New Mexico and really thought I might have to quit. I could hardly move. I rode 54 miles to a medical clinic in Abiquiu, got an IV, felt better and started climbing the Polvadera Mesa before sleeping out under the stars. I’m really grateful I didn’t have to scratch. I’ve gotten better results without digging as deep.”

Lael was aboard a Specialized Epic hardtail equipped with drop bars, a Rockhox SID 100mm suspension fork, a SRAM AXS 1x drivetrain with a 36T chainring and 10-52T cassette, Zipp 3ZeroMoto wheels, a SON dynamo hub paired with a Sinewave Beacon headlight, and Rene Herse Fleecer Ridge tires. You can find more info about her setup in the Further Reading links below.

This was Lael’s fifth time racing the Tour Divide and she currently holds the women’s record on the route, completing it in 15 days, 10 hours, and 59 minutes during an FKT ride back in August, 2015. As usual, Lael was well prepared for this year’s race after a long warm-up ride from the Arizona/Mexico Border to the start in Banff. Lael is also attempting a Triple Crown this year, and we look forward to seeing her in the Colorado Trail Race next. Congrats Lael!

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Anchorage’s Lael Wilcox overcomes health scare and brutal weather to win endurance bike race

Lael Wilcox finished first among women around 3 a.m. local time Monday at the border to Mexico in the 2023 Tour Divide. (Photo by Rue Kaladyte)

Anchorage’s Lael Wilcox faced more than her fair share of challenges on the way to winning the 2023 Tour Divide women’s race. The 36-year-old endurance cyclist arrived in Antelope Wells, New Mexico, around 3 a.m. local time Monday after riding through the night to finish with a time of 16 days and 20 hours.

Wilcox finished with a 125-mile cushion over Katya Rakhmatulina, who came in second place the next day with a finish time of 17 days, 8 hours and 48 minutes.

This was her fifth time competing in the race that begins in Banff, Alberta, and ends at the U.S.-Mexico border in Antelope Wells, but it marked her first time winning the grand depart, which is the mass start race that takes place every summer.

Wilcox was the first woman to finish the race in 2015 with what appeared to be a record time of 17 days, 1 hour and 51 minutes, but she was disqualified for riding an old track. She went back later that summer and rode the race by herself as a time trial, setting a record for finishing in 15 days, 10 hours and 59 minutes. That mark still stands. She was disqualified again in 2019, and had to stop early in 2021.

“It feels great,” Wilcox said. “I’ve been going after this for eight years, and can finally say I won it.”

In 2015, the course had been changed by about 10 miles, but she said she didn’t receive the notification from an organizer. Wilcox famously rode 2,140 miles from Anchorage to Alberta for the start of the race. Back then, she was still using a flip phone and didn’t get great cell reception while riding through trails and mountain ranges.

“Since it was an old track, I could still officially break the record, but was out of that year’s race,” Wilcox said.

Wilcox said the 2023 race was “the hardest for sure” because of what she had to endure and overcome along the way, including “a health scare and some pretty crazy weather.”

“The first seven days, it rained in thunderstorms every single day, and then it created this really nasty, almost impassable mud that pretty much wrecked everyone’s bike,” she said. “Everyone had to go to bike shops to get their bikes fully rebuilt.”

Even when the rain stopped, the challenges persisted — this time, in the form of a “pretty consistent strong headwind coming out of the south.”

“That’s what really killed my lungs,” she said with a raspy voice that still hasn’t recovered. “Just breathing that dry, hot, dusty air. After a day of it, I just totally lost my voice and was struggling to breathe.”

Lael Wilcox finished first for women around 3 a.m. Monday at the border to Mexico in the 2023 Tour Divide. (Photo by Rue Kaladyte)

A couple of days later, she woke up severely dehydrated and throwing up while in New Mexico where there wasn’t much water and very few services. At that point, Wilcox was afraid that she might have to quit but didn’t.

“I rode myself to a hospital, got an IV, and then felt quite a bit better, so I was able to continue and finish the race,” she said. “I was just so happy I didn’t have to quit. It was pretty tough.”

Before the weather became a debilitating factor, Wilcox was on pace to break her record set back in August 2015. However, due to the muddy conditions, her progress was slowed significantly, and she was no longer at a record-setting pace.

“On those days, usually we’re riding some 10, 12 or maybe 15 miles an hour,” she said. “In the mud, you’re hardly walking a mile an hour. To do that for like 12 hours, you really don’t make it very far.”

Wilcox, who is from Anchorage but now lives in Arizona, was a full day ahead of her record time at that point in the race and had to watch that work evaporate. That didn’t matter to her in the grand scope.

“I was super driven to finish just so I don’t have that kind of on my shoulders,” Wilcox said. “I had to dig a lot deeper than I usually do just to kind of overcome all these circumstances. I feel like I gave it my all and I feel really good about that.”

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Setting sights on a grander prize

At 2,700 miles long, the Tour Divide is one of the longest races that Wilcox has participated in during her eight-year racing career — and the one she has ridden the most. The longest race she has ridden is the Trans Am, which stretches 4,200 miles across the United States from the West Coast to the East.

She’s going for the triple crown of bikepacking this year with one down and two more coming up later this summer and fall.

The Colorado Trail Race in August is 500 miles of singletrack trail in August, and the Arizona Trail Race 800 is in October.

On average, it usually takes her a couple of weeks to recover from a race, and she has a fun recovery plan in store for this upcoming weekend.

“I’m heading back up to Montana, and I’m going to be guiding a stretch of the route that I just raced on an e-bike,” Wilcox said. “It should be a fun way to be outside and kind of spinning my legs but not working too hard.”

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Lael Wilcox and Ulrich Bartholmoes are the first finishers of 2023 Tour Divide

On day 17 of the world's most iconic ultra bikepacking race, 17 riders have reached the u.s./mexico border..

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At the 17 day mark of the Tour Divide , 17 riders have reached the U.S./Mexico border, including two women.

Tour Divide veteran Lael Wilcox was the first woman to complete the 2,745 mile journey from Banff, Canada to Antelope Wells, doing so in 16 days, 20 hours, and 17 minutes.

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Katya Rakhmatulina, a first-time completer from California, was less than a day behind, at 17 days, 8 hours, and 48 minutes.

Although at times Wilcox was on pace to beat her 2015 record of 15 days, 10 hours, 59 minutes, the 36-year-old suffered from gastrointestinal and respiratory symptoms around the two-week mark and took some time to rest and seek medical care.

Ulrich Bartholmoes of Germany was the first person to complete the race, with a remarkable time of 14 days, 3 hours, and 23 minutes. His time is the second-fastest time ever recorded; Mike Hall’s 2016 record of 13 days, 22 hours, and 51 minutes remains untouched.

Justinas Leveika of Lithuania, who like Bartholomoes has an extensive bikepacking race palmares but was a Tour Divide rookie, put in another sub-15 hour record, arriving to the border in 14 days, 16 hours, and 57 minutes.

Joe Nation of New Zealand was the third finisher.

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The Tour Divide grand départ starts on the second Friday of June every year, and no year is the same in terms of conditions, weather, or competition. This year saw a more international field than ever. Women and non-binary riders made up 20 of the roughly 200 participants.

While there was less fresh snow to contend with in this year’s race, riders still encountered stubborn winter leftovers on high passes. Rain, and then mud proved to be an issue in Montana and Wyoming, so much so that the three leaders spent 12 hours waiting in a porta-potty for the road to dry out in the Great Basin.

Unfortunately, the same wind that riders needed to dry out muddy roads seemed bound to stay, in the form of demoralizing and relentless headwinds, as many pushed through Colorado and New Mexico.

Nevertheless, there are still around 110 riders out there (some 70 have ‘scratched,’ or dropped out) — follow their dots here .

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By: Spencer Harding June 14, 2019

If you have ever ridden with Lael you know that she would ride a rusted beach cruiser until both tires were flat and the wheels imploded and would still be smiling bigger than anyone about it, but if Specialized is sponsoring you with bikes for races, you might as well indulge in some cool shit.

I’ve shot a few iterations of Lael’s bikes over the years and the main signature is that raggedy grey Jerry Can that will never die. She is packing extremely minimally per usual and isn’t using any kind of handlebar bag for this run.  A prototype Revelate Designs seatpack holds most of her gear and sleep system (mostly puffy pants).  A custom Dyneema framebag, Magtank 5000, and a few feedbags hold the rest of her snacks and gear.   Up front, she is running a Sinewave Beacon and as a rear light her trusty Planet Bike tail light. Simple, efficient, familiar.

The frame is a Specialized Epic hardtail that has been converted from a XC race machine to a drop bar endurance racer.  Sram’s new Red eTap AXS system allowed for an effortless pairing of drop bar levers/shifters with a mountain bike drivetrain.  She last minute swapped the Lauf fork she used in the DKXL for a Rockshox SID WC Brain .  I don’t think two weeks of sleep deprivation was what they had in mind when they made the Brain Fade adjustment.  A host of Hope bits and pieces round out the build and an Ergon saddle will be keeping her tukus cozy for almost 3000 miles.  Much like her bike she is running a mix of tire genres, with a traditional XC Fast Trak in the front and a Panaracer Gravel King in the rear.

The paint job is an Erik Nohlin special that is absolutely understated, from afar it looks like a simple greyish color. Upon getting closer you tons of small flecks of color dotted with rainbow flake colors that refract the light in every direction.  Its kind of like looking really up close at beach sand and find all these amazing colors but then pulling back it all  just blends into a brownish yellow.  Layered upon that paint job is a map snaking all over the frame tracing the Tour Divide Route.  There are lots of amazing details hiding under all of those bags waiting to be uncovered, I just know it.

Lael made an impressive run at the DKXL on almost this exact setup, a few last minute tweaks and some additional baggage and this bike are ready to crush the Tour Divide.  Today she is lining up for the Grand Depart in Banff against a strong field of competitors over 200 strong.

I’m part of a media team that will be documenting the Tour Divide Race this year.  I will be updating the site with galleries and stories from the race as regularly as content and rural wifi will allow, so be sure to check back if you are into chasing dots on Trackleaders .

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Ultra-endurance cyclist Lael Wilcox has made a name for herself with numerous top results in long-distance cycling events and most recently by taking the fastest known time on the 800-mile-long Alaska Pipline road. Lael continues to push herself and inspire other riders with a solo attempt at the 2450 mile Tour Divide course which zig-zags over the Continental Divide from Banff, Canada, to Antelope Wells on the Mexican border.

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The Tour Divide is the grandest North American mountain bike race. And in 2019, Lael Wilcox aimed to win it all.

Stretching from Canada to Mexico, the Tour Divide is a brutal, lonely race through the spine of the continent. Riders support themselves the entire way and face hardships like weather, altitude, and exhaustion.

“I Just Want To Ride: Lael Wilcox and the 2019 Tour Divide” tells the story of Wilcox’s 2019 race. She attempted to be the first female overall winner of the race. Follow along as she tackles the most notable bikepacking route in the world.

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Just Ride · Season 2 · Episode 6 · 23 April 2024

Riding the globe with record-breaker Lael Wilcox

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Just Ride S2 E6

Lael Wilcox is an ultra-endurance legend. And yet, aged 20, she’d barely ridden a bike. It was only when she started a new job 6km from her home and realised cycling was the most efficient way of commuting that she turned to two wheels. A love affair was born, and then she realised she was damn good at it. Now 36, Lael’s won almost everything she could dream of: the 6,800km Trans Am Bike Race; holds the women’s course record for Tour Divide (4,418km); has the fastest known time for the Arizona Trail… the list goes on and on. And now she wants to smash the women’s round-the-world record – and is setting off from Chicago on May 26 to do just that. She aims to complete her trip around the globe in just 110 days. Lael spoke to Rob and Eliot about her spellbinding journey to this point – and how she plans to break an iconic record. We loved welcoming Lael to Just Ride and can’t wait to track her progress.

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• Themed tours
• Customized tours
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Moscow Metro 2019

Will it be easy to find my way in the Moscow Metro? It is a question many visitors ask themselves before hitting the streets of the Russian capital. As metro is the main means of transport in Moscow – fast, reliable and safe – having some skills in using it will help make your visit more successful and smooth. On top of this, it is the most beautiful metro in the world !

. There are over 220 stations and 15 lines in the Moscow Metro. It is open from 6 am to 1 am. Trains come very frequently: during the rush hour you won't wait for more than 90 seconds! Distances between stations are quite long – 1,5 to 2 or even 3 kilometers. Metro runs inside the city borders only. To get to the airport you will need to take an onground train - Aeroexpress.

RATES AND TICKETS

Paper ticket A fee is fixed and does not depend on how far you go. There are tickets for a number of trips: 1, 2 or 60 trips; or for a number of days: 1, 3 days or a month. Your trips are recorded on a paper ticket. Ifyou buy a ticket for several trips you can share it with your traveling partner passing it from one to the other at the turnstile.

On every station there is cashier and machines (you can switch it to English). Cards and cash are accepted. 1 trip - 55 RUB 2 trips - 110 RUB

Tickets for 60 trips and day passes are available only at the cashier's.

60 rides - 1900 RUB

1 day - 230 RUB 3 days - 438 RUB 30 days - 2170 RUB.

The cheapest way to travel is buying Troyka card . It is a plastic card you can top up for any amount at the machine or at the ticket office. With it every trip costs 38 RUB in the metro and 21 RUB in a bus. You can get the card in any ticket office. Be prepared to leave a deposit of 50 RUB. You can get it back returning the card to the cashier.

SamsungPay, ApplePay and PayPass cards.

One turnstile at every station accept PayPass and payments with phones. It has a sticker with the logos and located next to the security's cabin.

GETTING ORIENTED

At the platfrom you will see one of these signs.

It indicates the line you are at now (line 6), shows the direction train run and the final stations. Numbers below there are of those lines you can change from this line.

In trains, stations are announced in Russian and English. In newer trains there are also visual indication of there you are on the line.

To change lines look for these signs. This one shows the way to line 2.

There are also signs on the platfrom. They will help you to havigate yourself. (To the lines 3 and 5 in this case). 

Moscow Metro Tour

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Moscow metro private tours.

• 2-hour tour $87:  10 Must-See Moscow Metro stations with hotel pick-up and drop-off
• 3-hour tour $137:  20 Must-See Moscow Metro stations with Russian lunch in beautifully-decorated Metro Diner + hotel pick-up and drop off. 
• Metro pass is included in the price of both tours.

Highlight of Metro Tour

• Visit 10 must-see stations of Moscow metro on 2-hr tour and 20 Metro stations on 3-hr tour, including grand Komsomolskaya station with its distinctive Baroque décor, aristocratic Mayakovskaya station with Soviet mosaics, legendary Revolution Square station with 72 bronze sculptures and more!
• Explore Museum of Moscow Metro and learn a ton of technical and historical facts;
• Listen to the secrets about the Metro-2, a secret line supposedly used by the government and KGB;
• Experience a selection of most striking features of Moscow Metro hidden from most tourists and even locals;
• Discover the underground treasure of Russian Soviet past – from mosaics to bronzes, paintings, marble arches, stained glass and even paleontological elements;
• Learn fun stories and myths about Coffee Ring, Zodiac signs of Moscow Metro and more;
• Admire Soviet-era architecture of pre- and post- World War II perious;
• Enjoy panoramic views of Sparrow Hills from Luzhniki Metro Bridge – MetroMost, the only station of Moscow Metro located over water and the highest station above ground level;
• If lucky, catch a unique «Aquarelle Train» – a wheeled picture gallery, brightly painted with images of peony, chrysanthemums, daisies, sunflowers and each car unit is unique;
• Become an expert at navigating the legendary Moscow Metro system;
• Have fun time with a very friendly local;
• + Atmospheric Metro lunch in Moscow’s the only Metro Diner (included in a 3-hr tour)

Hotel Pick-up

Metro stations:.

Komsomolskaya

Novoslobodskaya

Prospekt Mira

Belorusskaya

Mayakovskaya

Novokuznetskaya

Revolution Square

Sparrow Hills

+ for 3-hour tour

Victory Park

Slavic Boulevard

Vystavochnaya

Dostoevskaya

Elektrozavodskaya

Partizanskaya

Museum of Moscow Metro

• Drop-off  at your hotel, Novodevichy Convent, Sparrow Hills or any place you wish
• + Russian lunch  in Metro Diner with artistic metro-style interior for 3-hour tour

Fun facts from our Moscow Metro Tours:

From the very first days of its existence, the Moscow Metro was the object of civil defense, used as a bomb shelter, and designed as a defense for a possible attack on the Soviet Union.

At a depth of 50 to 120 meters lies the second, the coded system of Metro-2 of Moscow subway, which is equipped with everything you need, from food storage to the nuclear button.

According to some sources, the total length of Metro-2 reaches over 150 kilometers.

The Museum was opened on Sportivnaya metro station on November 6, 1967. It features the most interesting models of trains and stations.

Coffee Ring

The first scheme of Moscow Metro looked like a bunch of separate lines. Listen to a myth about Joseph Stalin and the main brown line of Moscow Metro.

Zodiac Metro

According to some astrologers, each of the 12 stops of the Moscow Ring Line corresponds to a particular sign of the zodiac and divides the city into astrological sector.

Astrologers believe that being in a particular zadiac sector of Moscow for a long time, you attract certain energy and events into your life.

Paleontological finds 

Red marble walls of some of the Metro stations hide in themselves petrified inhabitants of ancient seas. Try and find some!

• Every day each car in  Moscow metro passes  more than 600 km, which is the distance from Moscow to St. Petersburg.
• Moscow subway system is the  5th in the intensity  of use (after the subways of Beijing, Tokyo, Seoul and Shanghai).
• The interval in the movement of trains in rush hour is  90 seconds .

What you get:

• + A friend in Moscow.
• + Private & customized Moscow tour.
• + An exciting pastime, not just boring history lessons.
• + An authentic experience of local life.
• + Flexibility during the walking tour: changes can be made at any time to suit individual preferences.
• + Amazing deals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner in the very best cafes & restaurants. Discounts on weekdays (Mon-Fri).
• + A photo session amongst spectacular Moscow scenery that can be treasured for a lifetime.
• + Good value for souvenirs, taxis, and hotels.
• + Expert advice on what to do, where to go, and how to make the most of your time in Moscow.

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