Events/Slovakia Divide

Slovakia Divide

Ultra
Date
Sun, 1 Aug 2027
Venue
Modra, Slovakia (Carpathian traverse)
Countdown
August
Distance
790km
Total climb
16,000m

A self-supported bikepacking ultra across Slovakia's Carpathians. No support crew, no drafting, no booked beds: you carry it, navigate it, and sleep out. It starts at Modra in the Little Carpathians and runs the mountain arc eastward.

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The course

The route

A fixed-GPX traverse east from Modra through the Carpathian ranges, the Malá and Veľká Fatra and the Low Tatras, mostly on forest service roads and rough doubletrack, with technical singletrack on Hardline. The flagship Gravel route runs around 790km with roughly 16,000m of climbing.

Weather

Early-August, Modra

29°CTypical high
17°CTypical low
9°CColdest in 20 years
44%Days with rain

Highs around 29°C and lows around 17°C, but it has dropped to 9°C. Rain on 44% of days.

NASA POWER data, 2006-2025, the week either side of race day
Training

Training for the Slovakia Divide

We don't do generic plans. We combine deep knowledge of this race's demands with your recent training, then build a plan with you that progresses as you do.

Beina integrates directly with your existing tools to understand your current fitness, and synchronise your planned sessions.

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Multi-day Carpathian self-support
Typical sessions
Cumulative vertical: sustained forest-road and mountain climbing that grinds you down day after day
Rough, mixed surfaces: loose gravel, rocky doubletrack and, on Hardline, technical singletrack with some hike-a-bike
Remoteness: reasonable resupply in the valleys, sparse high in the mountains, so you carry your own margin
Sleep and contact points: multi-day saddle time and sleep management decide more than raw fitness
What your weeks look like
Typical sessions
Weekend doubles: two back-to-back long hilly gravel days of 6 to 10 hours each, the single best preparation for cumulative fatigue
Big climbing rides: 5 to 8 hours with 2,000 to 3,500m of ascent to build durable climbing legs
Loaded off-road rides: 4 to 8 hours on rough terrain with full bikepacking kit, to handle and pace under weight
Overnight rides: ride through the night, short bivvy, ride on, to rehearse sleep timing and night navigation
Not a generic schedule
Typical sessions
Built from your current fitness and the time you actually have
Adapts every week as Beina learns how you respond
Syncs your sessions straight to Garmin and Wahoo
One clear next session, never a wall of spreadsheet
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