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Gentlemen's Races
2011 NORTHWEST GENTLEMEN'S RACE
75 degrees and partly cloudy, ideal for the 130 miles (10,000 ft of climbing) that were waiting for the 28 teams of 6 riders that had gathered from all over the West Coast of North America to participate.
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2011 NORTHEAST GENTLEMEN'S RACE
There are great juxtapositions in cycling: the tougher the ride, the greater the rewards; the further you go, the more unknown places you will discover. Combine these and you have the 2011 North East Rapha Gentlemen’s Race. A 134 mile chain of beautiful scenery, grueling climbs, and challenging surfaces through little known areas of Eastern Pennsylvania.
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2010 NORTHWEST GENTLEMEN'S RACE
Be careful what you wish for. It's a saying that comes to mind when talking about racing the Rapha Gentlemen's Race. Last month's race was made especially difficult with temperatures topping 101º, putting even the strongest riders into risk of blowing up early and often.
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2010 EAST COAST GENTLEMEN'S RACE
The trick to enjoying a great Gentlemen's Race does not lie within the prize list. You will not be able to find it in the team car or over the official race radio, no matter how hard you are listening. The trick to having a good Gentlemen's Race lies with the company you keep.
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2009 NORTHWEST GENTLEMEN'S RACE
"Fear. The same feeling that sat in my stomach that morning was painted across most of the racers faces as they prepped and hit the gravel edged start-line. That nervous laughter and twitchy joking that we all know hits before the starting flag waves was amplified. For many because they’d never been here before, never lined up knowing that the finish-line was 137-miles away."
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2009 EAST COAST GENTLEMEN'S RACE
Unsanctioned and unmarshalled, nobody was quite sure how that would play in the Northeast. Would the local teams, typically known for being a bit more serious (certainly more so than Portland), get behind the idea of the Rapha Gentlemen’s Race?
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2008 NORTHWEST GENTLEMEN'S RACE
The first Gentlemen's Race.
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"I wasn’t completely sure what to expect when we came up with the idea of the first ever Rapha Gentlemen’s Race. I sold it to the racers as an unsupported, unsanctioned, unmarshalled, six-rider team time trial meets alley-cat, meets ‘Cannonball Run’. Inspired in large part by the Rapha Continental style of riding long days, gravel roads, hard miles and finding your own way, the race was two very different rides over the same +/- 125-mile course."
- Slate Olson