Two big Gravel races happened and neither were even Gravel races. (Does anyone still capitalize the world "Gravel" or is that just us?) Anywho, join the Holy Spirit of Gravel meme page admin ("Holy" for short) and her Gravel Dad best friend has they discuss Little Sugar MTB race and the UCI Gravel World Championships. Like I said neither was what we come to expect from your typical gravel race.

It all begs the question. Is the soul of elite Gravel MTB races? or is it euro-coded dusty road races? Does it matter at all? or is what really matters the pro athletes we ride along side and we connect with? We discuss it all in this episode of the pod.

Also! Big Sugar is coming up in a few days and the Holy Spirit of Gravel will be hosting a panel (i.e. activating at an activation) with the support of MAAP and some bike shop called The HUB Bike Lounge...sounds fancy! Come heckle her in person, film and tag the drama so she can show her mom. Thursday 10/16 at 5pm. We talk the the pro-normie relationship and where it fits into the future of Gravel Cycling. See you there! Also Holy skipped last weekends grassroots race so she should actually be fired and cancelled.

Topics include:

• If Holy does a decent job at this panel then this pod is cancelled
• Little Sugar hard
• Are you talking about Matt Beers or Cam Jones?
• He meant Cam Jones
• Sofia
• yes that Sofia
• no one knows that the Garmin - Strava lawsuit is about
• generational feuds over Strava segments
• MTB?
• Mountain Bike-ing?
• knowing what the Driftless region is
• results vs vibes
• contract season?
• Justice for the Rad
• name dropping the DRIFTLESS REGION
• Formula G - Holy's racing league
• gravel content creator house legal drama
• Real MTB vs Xtreme Gravel: drops and ledges, the true story
• UCI Gravel World happened
• wide ranging opinions
• its not a battle versus race types but a battle versus racer types
• chasing teammates is ok in gravel?
• sleeping in on euro race morning
• Magnus Bak Klaris
• Alexis Skarda beat machine
• Holy almost died in Trinidad, Co once
• Why did Holy skip the grassroots race?
• Holy why?
• dont forget the panel