Adam Roberge

Ouff, what a memorable day at this year’s .bike. The dynamic course mix with a very strategic lead group made it such a fun day out here. Congrats for the win. 👏

3rd on the line for me. To know how the race played out (& what I used on race day), follow this link: https://youtu.be/Dj5klq39VDQ

Will be back next year! 🤠

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🥇 at the .

Every year I fail to register for this race despite it being a must on my calendar - again and again, 1000+ riders are faster at registering than I am.

The course is a very challenging (& beautiful) mix of punchy gravel roads & doubletrack that vary extremely in how recently they’ve been maintained… 🤠

After a dusty start, I came out of the first 18km technical sector with & .carlyle. But we quickly got caught by a fast charging chase group of 12, including all the favourites.

After some disorganized group riding, got into his C.H. KOM pace right at the bottom of the longest climb of the day, to blow the group apart. I added a little sprinkle over the top & found myself, by myself, with 70km to go… 💀

With most of the technical sectors still to come I was confident going solo was a good enough move, but made sure it wasn’t. He quickly came back on me and despite having the edge on every technical sector, he kept pushing harder on the pedals and was able to bring me back every time.

In the end, Kaleb and I sprinted for the win & I got the best of him. I am satisfied with the way I raced, and feel like mentally & strategically I executed very well. I clearly did not have the upper hand physically in the latter half, maybe from pushing the pace too hard early on, or maybe because I don’t have a past career in speed skating… 👏

Merci à toute l’équipe de la BRGR pour un évènement top top, l’année prochaine je vais essayer fort fort de get in avant que ce soit sold out… 💨

Photos par la très talentueuse .

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106 335 $ amassés à la Classique des Menhirs pour les athlètes cyclistes québécois.

Merci pour ton implication dans le sport depuis toutes ces années. Tu continues à avoir un impact tellement positif sur ma carrière d’athlète (maintenant 9 ans que tu me commandites) et, avec tout l’effort que toi et Lise avez mis pour rendre cette levée de fonds (& gros fun) possible, tu continues à être un leader dans l’agencement des affaires et du sport.

Félicitations et merci encore.

5th at .

Race Report: https://youtu.be/dlG6_vXcr34

Not much more to say that I already stated in my race report. I analyzed the numbers and I'm even less confident that the early breakaway was a good idea with the strong headwind… 😅 Anyways, I'm still very satisfied with my effort out there.

Thank you to the organization for listening to us and going back to a start/finish in downtown Steamboat & having a long & stunning loop 🤩 (not laps). I also wanted to mention how safe it felt out there — not sure how they pull it off, but it was great.

Super happy to be back to what seems to be 100% that quickly, thanks to all below for the support:
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UCI OG Gravel Race Report 🥇
Course Stats: 122km, 1773m of D+, 56% gravel, 46% road.
(Swipe to the end for my physiological stats)

Being one of the only UCI gravel races in North America, the OG Classic attracted a strong field of gravel specialists, but also road racers. The course, being especially fast (37.4km/h avg in the end), was destined to create a very tactical race.

The first deciding move happened on the first long climb of the day (~15min). did what we expected him to do & attacked. On top, there were gaps everywhere, but eventually a lead group of 15-20 formed on the following (headwind) road section.

Right after it all came back together, a breakaway was desperately trying to form (special s/o to ), but in the end, 25km wasn't enough. Then came the most selective part of the course, a 20min-long climb which created a very selective lead group of 5. We had good chemistry, but the 8 behind had a better one and eventually caught us with 45km to go.

The remainder of the course is mostly flat, but included 4-5 steep climbs (1-3min). On the longest of those, I got away with Mike, but neither of us had much left and got caught by a chase group of 3 which would complete our lead group coming into the very technical finish.

The last 200m of the race were on a double-track trail. I knew that waiting until this point would leave a big chunk of the final result to luck. Not willing to take the gamble, I decided to attack all in, with 600m to go, to hopefully enter the finishing trail first - I didn't look back, and was able to hold a very small gap all the way to the line!

Up next, ! I'm really looking forward to what is always a sick weekend of racing, but not going to lie — this will be my 3rd straight week of racing important races since the Unbound crash & I can feel that I'm asking a lot of my body. All in for Sunday & then a reset! 😴🙂

Merci pour les superbes photos.