Dust has settled on this year's
Unbound Gravel and
Nathan Haas had some time to think about what he has witnessed. What angered him the most was the decision of organisers to keep a 'mud pit' in a section around mile 30. This saw hopes of many buried under levels of mud. In his blog for Cyclingnews, Haas mentions that some 80% of those who took on the 350-mile race which took off earlier DNF'ed.
"There was a viable option to reroute the course, which would have been mud free. Yes, it would have been wet, but not mud. It would have been easy to marshal as it was so early in the event that there would have needed to be marshals with flags for at most a few hours before we re-joined the part of the course that was ridable at kilometer 35."