VERDICT One hundred miles of punchy Georgia gravel, pavement, and singletrack outside Atlanta.
A training plan for Dirty Sheets Gravel Grind—shaped to your fitness and the hours you have.
One hundred miles of punchy Georgia gravel, pavement, and singletrack outside Atlanta.
The event turns the gravel backroads known locally as Dirty Sheets into a supported race weekend that funds regional trail building and maintenance. By MTB Atlanta / North Georgia Mountain Bike Association.
Reputation: A community-built Atlanta-area gravel race known for punchy terrain, hand-made trophies, and an unusually complete race-weekend experience.
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Photo: YouTube / s y n t h b e n tA punchy 100-mile mixed-surface course with 6,815 feet of repeated climbing, moving among pavement, gravel, singletrack, and doubletrack.
Signature challenge: Holding power and handling together across 100 miles, 6,815 feet of repeated climbing, four surface types, and an unmarked GPS course.
It's not an easy ride but it's not overly challenging or difficult - there are a couple of challenging sections, there's a little section of single track, there's a couple of pretty steep short punchy grades that are through some chunky rough stuff so some people have to walk it some people can power right up it just depends really on the line that you pick.
Jackelxing · 507 views
It's not an easy ride but it's not overly challenging or difficult there are a couple of challenging sections
Jackelxing · 507 views
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A mid-October Georgia start usually avoids peak summer heat, but a long day can still move from a cool morning to a warm, humid afternoon. Rain changes the gravel and trail sectors far more than the paved mileage.[1]
The Serenbe start is roughly 30 miles from Atlanta's airport, with three packet-pickup windows, organizer-directed parking, camping, and clear start waves. Field parking and a rural start keep it below turnkey destination-race logistics.[3]
The course escapes metro Atlanta into rural Chattahoochee Hills, then mixes backroads with wooded singletrack and doubletrack. GPS-only navigation and the surface variety give it more adventure than a standard supported fondo.[2]
2024 results show Brock Mason winning the 102-mile in 4:52:50, with 16th place Logan Hunt finishing in 7:45:23—a nearly three-hour spread indicating regional competition rather than elite depth. The $3,000 prize purse split between men and women suggests ambition exceeding current field strength.[5]
Yes if you want a fully supported, legitimately hard Southeast mixed-surface race without the destination-race circus; no if national field depth is the main attraction.
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