← All eventsTour Divide
~2,700-mile (~4,350km) self-supported bikepacking ultra down the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route, Banff (Canada) to Antelope Wells (USA). ~150,000-200,000ft climbing, the Great Divide Basin, Indiana Pass (11,913ft). Solo, self-timed, no cutoff. 2027 date approximate.
Roughly 2,700 miles down the spine of the Rocky Mountains, Banff to the Mexican border, carrying everything yourself. One of the longest off-pavement races on earth, and you ride it entirely alone.
The Great Divide Mountain Bike Route crosses the Continental Divide around 30 times. Cold alpine passes in the north slowly give way to the high desert heat of New Mexico.
No checkpoints, no feed stations, no cutoff. Wyoming's Great Divide Basin alone runs about 100 miles with no water or services. Out here, self-reliance is not a nice-to-have, it is the whole event.
Is Tour Divide for you?
- Riders who are calm on their own. Weeks of solo gravel through storms and empty desert reward a steady head far more than a fast one.
- Methodical planners. With no support and a 100-mile waterless basin to cross, resupply and kit prep matter as much as fitness.
- Diesel engines, not sprinters. Success is holding a sustainable pace for weeks, so raw power barely moves the needle here.
- Anyone who genuinely wants time off the grid. With no cutoff you can take 30 days, but you will spend nearly all of them alone.
Training plan for Tour Divide
A training plan for Tour Divide isn't a generic base build. Beina reads the event's exact demands, looks at your specific profile and the time you actually have, and maps a highly adapted plan to the start line.
- Aerobic durability over 2 to 4 weeks, not one hard day. Accumulated fatigue is the real opponent.
- Weather at both extremes: near-freezing snow on northern passes, then 35C-plus desert heat later on.
- Long serviceless stretches where a single fuelling or hydration error can quickly turn serious.
- Multiple nights riding and bivvying, self-navigating by GPS with no course markings to follow.
- Long Z2 endurance rides off-road, building from around 5 hours toward 12-plus, dialling in fuelling as you go.
- Back-to-back big weekends: Saturday 8 to 12 hours, Sunday 6 to 8, teaching your legs to work when tired.
- Overnight and bivvy rides: ride into the dark, sleep a few hours, then ride again at dawn.
- A 5-plus day loaded bikepacking trip on full kit, the single most race-specific session in the plan.
- 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
