Ultra-endurance bike rider and racer Lael Wilcox and 2019 FKT attempt on The Tour Divide Gravel Race. Even if you don’t follow this bike race across the Great Divide, a 2750 mile route with 200,000 ft of elevation, this is a great video that captures the experience and controversies around this year’s event.

Lael Wilcox loves the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route. She loves the climbing. It's pass after pass. She loves the roads. They’re not too technical. She loves the landscapes. Traveling from Canada to Mexico, all on your bike. The Tour Divide, it’s her kind of race and she’s done it twice before. The 2019 edition was set to be truly unique as she attempted to be the first woman to be the overall winner the race. But would the weather cooperate? Would the race and route play out as it had in her previous attempts? Follow along as Lael takes on the most notable bikepacking route in the world and has to overcome natural and human barriers to embrace the true reasons for why she rides and inspires others to ride. Go Lael.