The Arizona Gravel Championship's open course: sixty miles of Cochise County gravel from Douglas, no field limit, and the one the Under 20 state titles are raced on. Below is the ride the way the model rides it: your finish at three paces, where a fast rider gains on you, the climbs that cost the most, and a fuel plan timed to the road.
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The organizer posts the route without a climbing figure; it runs in Cochise County from Douglas. The figures above are the model's own reading of the organizer's 2026 RideWithGPS route for the Medium course. The day runs the Long course, capped at 150 riders, and the International Parade Lap across the border into Agua Prieta.
The rider the app opens with, 185 lb, 280 W FTP, 20 kJ reserve, at the app's three pace settings, beside a fast rider. Your own numbers move all of it.
Riding it steady costs 18 minutes against moderate; riding it aggressive saves 10 minutes and takes your anaerobic reserve down to 65% at its lowest, against 82% at moderate. At 3,716 to 4,668 ft the thinner air takes about 5% off a rider coming from sea level, and that is in these times.
150 lb, 350 W FTP, 28 kJ reserve, aggressive
2:47292 W average, 21.6 mph
185 lb, 280 W FTP, 20 kJ reserve, moderate
3:28201 W average, 17.4 mph
The deficit grows fastest from mile 41 to mile 52, 12 minutes of it in 10 miles. It takes in climbs 1, 2 and 3: watts buy the most time where gravity is what you are paying, and on the flat and the descents the gap barely moves.
| Where | Climb | Grade | Time | Power | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 41.5 to 42.3 mi | 97 ft | 2.1% | 4:02 | 225 W |
| 2 | 49.5 to 50.7 mi | 180 ft | 3.0% | 5:37 | 239 W |
| 3 | 50.9 to 51.5 mi | 152 ft | 5.1% | 3:24 | 277 W |
For the guest rider at moderate pace. Ranked by what each one costs as a share of the ride, not by how tall it looks, then listed in the order you reach them.
About 74 g an hour at moderate pace. Each feed goes in about 20 minutes before the model says you need it, on an easier stretch rather than on a climb, and none in the last 20 minutes, where it could not be absorbed before the line.
| Feed | Mile | Into the ride | Carbohydrate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6.3 mi | 0:25 | 59 g |
| 2 | 18.6 mi | 1:03 | 64 g |
| 3 | 30.5 mi | 1:47 | 74 g |
| 4 | 39.3 mi | 2:14 | 44 g |
| 5 | 47.2 mi | 2:44 | 16 g |
From the burn the model puts on this course: work along the route, carbohydrate share from the pace, what your glycogen holds for your weight, and 400 kcal an hour through the gut for a glucose and fructose mix. Move the feeds to the aid stations you will actually use; the plan updates.
Set a goal time for the BorderLands Medium and the app reads your recent rides against this course: a likely finish range, its middle, and your goal marked likely, possible, a stretch or unlikely. With a power meter from measured watts; without one, from your speed on your own ground.
What your best riding of each week would finish in on this route, so you can see whether the training is moving the number, not just adding miles.
Each of the climbs above, checked against what you actually ride: covered, mostly covered, thin or not ridden, so the next session goes where the race will hurt.
The route is cut into short segments and each is solved for the speed your power holds against gravity, rolling resistance for the surface, and air, thinner at altitude. On twisting trail your speed is capped by how fast you can corner, and on the far side of a climb you keep the speed you carried in. The time on each segment is added up, the reserve you spend above threshold and win back below it is tracked the whole way, and the carbohydrate is burned where the work is done. It is fitted against recorded races: on a Chequamegon 40 validation ride it predicted 2:24:28 against an actual 2:24:20.
For the guest rider the app opens with (185 lb, 280 W FTP, 20 kJ reserve), the model puts it at 3:28 at moderate pace, 3:46 riding steady and 3:19 riding aggressive. A fast rider at 150 lb, 350 W FTP, 28 kJ reserve is around 2:47. Put your own weight and fitness in and it forecasts yours.
The organizer does not publish a climbing figure for the BorderLands Medium. The route file the model rode measures 2,757 ft over 60.3 miles, between 3,716 and 4,668 ft.
Climb 3 on the chart, 50.9 miles in: 152 ft at 5.1%, 3:24 at 277 W for the guest rider at moderate pace.
At moderate pace the plan is 257 g of carbohydrate over the ride, about 74 g an hour, in 5 feeds. Each goes in about 20 minutes before the model says you need it, on an easier stretch, and the last is at mile 47 so it is absorbed before the line.
The model rode it as dirt road throughout, on a gravel bike. The organizer describes a ride through the diverse landscapes and borderlands of Cochise County. Surface is worth 13 to 17% of a finish time, so tag the sections in the app and the forecast follows.
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