Timing Results from Brooksee Timing (July 8, 2023)
http://brooksee.com/cgf/dashboard
“My first time participating in this 100 miler and it rocked! I love riding Weston Canyon! ”
FREE PROFESSIONAL PHOTOS! 2023 PHOTOS from GARY BIRD
ALL PHOTOS ARE FREE so PLEASE download and share - and tag us @utah-cachegranfondo and @cachegranfondo or use HASHTAG #cachegranfondo
“As always this was another great ride. This was my 4th year and every time it’s been a great experience. With everything going on this year I thought about canceling but I’m glad I didn’t. Thanks again for putting all this together and making this such a great event.”
Fun and challenging distances for ANY CYCLIST.
You Choose: Ride 35, 50, 75, and 100-mile or Race 75-miles.
We are excited to get back to our roots of hosting Utah’s biggest Gran Fondo event, with distances and courses for everyone. We are also proud to again for the 5th-year be an official Gran Fondo National Series points event which also provides riders an opportunity to qualify for the USA Cycling Gran Fondo National Championships.
A true Gran Fondo format, immediately after our racers leave the start line area on the 75-mile course, all distances will be open to our recreational cyclists on our 35, 50, 75 and 100 mile courses throughout our spectacular mountain valley. All routes, with the exception of our Piccolo 35-mile course, offer a slight hill challenge followed my mostly flat sections on low-traffic roads.
All distances offer well-stocked support stations with real food from Lee’s Marketplace, Newton Market, Woodwards Country Store, and Thomas Market. Our nutrition and hydration sponsor, Hammer Nutrition will provide Hammer Gels, electrolytes, and Heed supplements at all rest stops. For the past 13 years Pepsi provides all the Pepsi products you can drink, including a fully-stocked Pepsi trailer at the finish line. We offer a light breakfast at the start-line, and a unique rider lunch where you chose your preference from one of 3 different local restaurants. Over 40 local and statewide sponsors also provide over $8000 worth of rider prizes and rider gifts, including Campchef stoves and outdoor cooking items, cycling items from Al’s Sporting Goods, Joyride Bikes & The Sportsman. Also high-end pillows from Malouf Sleep, and ARS always provides FatBoy ice cream sandwiches as you cross the finish.
We are also a USACycling sanctioned event, and provide insurance on all our registered riders.
“Today for the first time I made it up the hill on the 50 mile to get to the second stop in Newton. I literally was crying. I still am while I’m sitting here. I never could have done this without the opportunity for me to tackle the impossible. Thank you!”
35, 50, 75 and 100-mile courses
Compete to the level you want, and the distance you prefer to ride.
The Cache Gran Fondo offers 4 different distances, from a mostly-flat 35-mile course to a tough and challenging 100+ Century that tests even the most-experienced cyclists. Each is fully supported with aid stations and roving radio crews and law enforcement professionals.
The start and finish are easy to find, park, and relax before and after the event. And even though you are not racing, you still are eligible for hundreds of prizes, drawn randomly throughout the day.
For info on the courses and maps, click below;
2024 RIDER GIFTS
All riders get their choice of a custom 2024 T-shirt, a custom 2023 cycling cap, or a mesh trucker hat.
MOCK-UP of 2024 Trucker Hat
MOCK-UP of 2024 Cycling Cap
75-mile Race Course and (NEW) 100-mile course qualify
Gran Fondo National Series Points and Qualification for GFNats
Our 105 mile Classic Century route will count as Gran Route Series Points and our 77 mile Medio Fondo route will count towards Medio Series Points
Riders can qualify for USA Cycling Gran Fondo National Championships (GFNats) in either the 75 mile or 100 mile routes
See more about Series points at:
https://www.granfondonationalseries.com/points-calculation
See more about qualifying for GFNats at:
https://www.granfondonationalseries.com/gran-fondo-national-championship
BOTH 77 and 105 courses will feature a sprint and KOM/QOM segment
“Congrats on another spectacular year. I rode the 76 and the new course through Preston was fabulous. All stations were very well-stocked. A near perfect day although you could have provided a bit more cloud cover like last year, ha. We were done by 11:30 so not bad at all. Well done.
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START TIMES for 2024 CACHE GRAN FONDO
Riders/Racers will start in waves, each group follows a Pilot Car or Sheriff until mile 2.5 (Note: Rolling Closure will be 2 miles shorter than 2023)
6:15 a.m. All 100 mile RACERS (Average speed 16-25mph+)
6:30 a.m. All 77-mile Gran Fondo RACERS, followed by 76-mile Recreational at 6:40am.
6:40 a.m. All 77-mile Gran Fondo RECREATION RIDERS.
6:45 a.m. 38 and 50 mile RIDERS (Average flat speed 15-25+)
2022 PHOTOS are loaded and ready for FREE download and sharing, (PLEASE share and tag us at #cachegranfondo and #granfondo. )
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Event Information
2024 Cache Gran Fondo is July 13th in Logan, Utah USA. Always the 2nd Saturday in July, the Cache Gran Fondo provides a mostly-flat course through one of northern Utah's best-kept cycling secrets, Cache Valley, Utah. Many riders register for their first century, the challenge of a half-century, a 35 or 76 mile route, or as a mid-summer training ride for bigger events like the Ultimate Challenge and LOTOJA (Logan to Jackson).
We are taking every precaution to keep our riders, volunteers and community safe during the event. A very important component to this plan is how our packet pick up is arranged on Thursday at Bountiful Bikes and on Friday at Al’s Sporting Goods.
Working with USACycling and our partners at the Gran Fondo National Series, we are following guidelines to keep contact to a minimum at a packet pick-up. Since 2020, the packet pick-up area will be set up in the center of the store. While face masks are no longer required, riders who are not vaccinated are encouraged to wear them in the stores and while off-bike in the support stations.
We encourage all riders to keep distanced (the signs on the floor will help), and move thru the area. We are also not pre-stuffing bags to cut down on the number of people who handle each item, so if you want some of the great offers on the table, please take one (hint: there are some great discount coupons to Al’s and other local shops).
PACKET PICK UP INFORMATION
With our two-day packet pick-up schedule, we are running packets to Bountiful and also in Logan. Our packet pick up times are as follows (note: Early riders on Friday can also get their packets at the START line on Friday am):
Thurs - 4-7 (Bountiful Bikes in Woods Cross)
Friday - 12-7 (Al’s Sport Goods in Logan, Utah)
Sat - 5-10 (Start Line at Green Canyon)
2024 Registration is now OPEN!
Join as racing teams, corporate groups, families, neighbors, couples or as an individual! Don’t worry, we have support stations and a HUGE party at the finish line!
Gran Fondo = Big Ride
Gran Fondos are mass participation cycling events that usually include both a race and a ride component. Gran Fondos have enjoyed a growing popularity in Europe for decades, and are now increasingly spreading around the world. The Cache Gran Fondo is one of the oldest Gran Fondos in North America, and we were selected as a Top Ten Gran Fondo in North America in 2019.
Cache Valley & Utah
There is the natural beauty of Utah, an incredibly diverse state with breath-taking desert landscape in the south and majestic mountain vistas in the north. But then, here is Cache Valley, a peaceful mountain valley in northern Utah where the air in the summer is crisp and clean, the traffic is light, and the cycling is spectacular.
