Last-minute decision to head to NE this weekend. Anyone else doing this race?
Watching the live feed…
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Good live feed! Was able to get me through my last hr of an 11 hr flight just to see the finish of the mens.
I think that Starlink has been a huge contributor to the increasing live feeds in the gravel scene. It seems to allow the streaming on a bit more of a budget compared to whatever the previous options were.
It particularly seems to work well where the landscape is wide and open like Leadville, unbound and now at gravel worlds.
Wouldn’t have predicted that men’s finish based on how it played out. Someone has been working on their sprint.
Enjoying coverage of these events, agree with the starlink comment above. I bet the cost to cover these events is a rounding error compared to the cost of covering a WT event with traditional media approaches. The coverage is pretty clunky and crude, but you can see it improving quickly in just the last year. Give it a few years and I bet it’s going to be really solid.
Elon has his faults, but Starlink is some next level visionary stuff. We’ve had a Starlink Mini for a while and the coverage/speed is unbelievable with over 8k satellites (and still growing) in orbit.
Really? I feel like the only way Keegan beats Beers is when Beers is simply too fatigued by the time they get to the line, OR like Levi’s where Beers dragged Keegan all the way to the line.
I expected an equally fatigued beers and Keegan to have the sprint nod go towards beers. Generally it just seems like beers is a lot more fatigued compared to Keegan by the time they get there 
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Beers is generally known as a steady diesel, but not a very explosive/twitchy rider (by his own account). Keegan isn’t really known as a sprinter either, but not terrible. Either way, a sprint at the end of 150 miles is a bit of a crap shoot and fatigue plays a huge role. Beers looked like he was soft pedaling even when Keegan was pushing the pace today, a rolling course like that is perfect for him. It still surprised me, Beers just has a history of losing in sprints and he had a big chase effort early today. I was happy to see him win, he was long past due for a good gravel result.
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Very fun event, glad I decided to attend although more planning would’ve been nice. The course was harder than I expected: lots of hills, chunky fresh gravel, and head/cross wind most of the day. 
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I did the GW75. My 45mm G-One RSs were the perfect choice. I don’t think anyone in the elite field ran wider than 45 (you hear me, DJ?).
MMR sections were 100% fine by the time I rode through.
As a native Nebraska kid, I was glad to see Tobin having fun out in the corn lands. Maybe all that time out front was enough to lift his spirits.
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Ben Delaney just showed the winners bikes and the female winner and runner up BOTH ran wider than 45s. Rosa ran Dub 2.0s front and rear. Your weird call out to DJ is weird.
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Did the 150, temps were nice and only one bad MMR with mud.
The headwind once you go north from Nebraska City was a bit rough though.
Made the mistake of leaving too much mud in my pedals, had no float and my ankle started to hurt.
Beat my time last year by 2 hours, so thats fun.
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I wasn’t there, but I assume it was like Unbound this year with people erring on the side of caution on tire clearance due to the MMR mud risk.
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Congrats, 2 hours is huge! First time doing it and rode the 150 as well. Might be back next year if the schedule lines up!
People are losing their minds on this tire width topic. I blame DJ for fanning the flames. Even HE, in his longest video on the topic, says that wider isn’t always the right choice in all circumstances.