GranGuanche

gravel

1st Editon

GGAG1

19-March-22

Mattia
de Marchi​

2d-12h-59m

Jana
Kesenheimer

3d-7h-15m

– The Audacious Ones –

Mattia de Marchi​

Manuel Truccolo

Toni Calderon​

Jens Van Roost​

Janosch Wintermantel​

Paul Voss​

Henning Bommel​

Replay

official

The GranGuanche Audax is a self-supported, single-stage, fixed-route bikepacking event across the Canary Islands, open to a maximum of 99 riders with proven experience. Participants are fully responsible for their own safety and logistics and aim to complete the route within a one-week cut-off time. The Audax is not a race — it’s a personal challenge and a collective adventure.

The Audax pace is the challenge of completing the route with the fastest-possible ferry schedule in a mostly non-stop ride. It is only achievable by ultra-cycling athletes, and the entry fee will be fully refunded to any rider fast enough to make it. Other pace scenarios are just a planning resource to adjust your Audax approach to ferries, resupply points, accommodation options, and a reasonable amount of rest.

Saturday

the audax starts at 22:00

Lanzarote

110km +2.000m

≈ Ferry to Fuerteventura:

Sunday 08:00 (30min)

Fuerteventura

160km +2.300m

≈ Ferry to Gran Canaria:

Sunday 17:00 – 18:00 (120min)

Gran Canaria

140km +3.600m

≈ Ferry to Tenerife:

Monday 06:00 (80min)

Tenerife

170km +4.500m

≈ Ferry to El Hierro:

Monday 17:30 (165min)

El Hierro

We stop for the night and start riding on Tuesday at 05:00

We expect the first riders at noon.

– Bikepacking.com –

Audax Gravel 2022

by Henning Bommel and  Stefan Haehnel

– Roleur.cc –

Don’t miss the boat

by Nick Busca

– Pas Normal Studios –

The Ferry Game

by Enough Cycling

– DotWatcher.cc –

Bikes of GGAG1

– Dotwatcher.cc –

GGAG1 Report

by Cornelia Puhze

– Enough Cycling –

Grades from the Audax

by Federico Damiani

– Mason Cycles –

GranGuanche

by Claire Frecknall

– Gravel Union –

Ultra-cycling

by Henna Palosaari

– Gravel Union –

The Analogue View

by Simon Taulelle