The unbound gravel boundary is well beyond the Flint Hills of Kansas this year. You can even join the "Super Bowl of Gravel" or join the world's top elite as they pound across open prairies, punchy climbs and unforgiving elements.

Thanks to Laurens ten Dam Of Live Slow Ride Fast and JOIN Cycling, cyclists around the world will be part of the Rebound Gravel on the same day as Unbound Gravel and will be able to Win cool prizes including free admission to the 2025 event.

As for live streaming, it's not a repeat performance from 2 years ago, but Life Time, which owns and operates Unbound Gravel and the Grand Prix series, is serious about reviving it, and until then it has not been real・time updates to social media feeds or live updates from the results page. The track will provide a post-race highlight show in 2024.

As network coverage allows, there is intermittent live streaming of races on Race Instagram.

Here is an overview of how any cyclist can approach the action on Saturday without buying a ticket to fly to Kansas.

On 6/1, about 5,000 riders will depart from Emporia, Kansas, on unbound gravel on 25 to 200 miles of 4 popular ride routes. What would it look like if more than 200,000 cyclists jumped in to ride' because its vast number is for a rebound Strava challenge for people around the world, using their own gravel roads, single tracks, cobblestones and pavements near the house, it will be a day' about the adventure, why? "It's a good result."

Professional cyclist Laurens ten Dam, who finished either 3rd or 4th in the last 2 Unbound Gravel0 races, founded the Alternative Mass Start event in 2 months after the COVID-19 global pandemic on a live slow-ride Fast podcast in 2020 .People were stuck indoors, and many people, including myself, had their big events cancelled, including the year's rebranded Unbound Gravel.

The Challenge event was an instant hit for amateurs and professionals, and was held for two years. Off in 2023, Ten Dam partnered with JOIN Cycling to refresh the rebound with support from Strava and Shimano.

"And those who are close to the shore like, 'Hi. We did it the same day as Unbound, and we would like to do it again. Oh, we want our event. We want to rebound. We want prizes," Tendum told cyclingnews about bringing back the do-it-yourself challenge, but in a big way.

He said that since 2020, 29 million people have registered, making it the largest event by Strava's global group in terms of the miles participants ride. 

"The cool thing about this is that you can really make it to the event from home. You go from home, usually, to a place that you can not see by bike. Then do it with a bunch of friends and have a nice after party. It's almost like an event, you know. And that's what we show people, you can do things from home too, and it can be really fun. It's about adventure, not the result. And I'm really proud of how it turned out."

Riding is one of the rewards and every rider will receive a digital badge to use for bragging rights. There are a lot of other awards, including one guaranteed entry to Unbound Gravel in 2025.1 Other prizes include a package of awards from Skoda including tickets for two grandstands for the finish at Nice, the Tour de France, a live slow-ride fast Cycling kit, Shimano RX6 cycling shoes and socks, and a cycling track for Life. This includes participating in a marketing plan for your business. Admission is free and there is no time limit to highlight the fun of cycling. Details are available atwww.rebound.cc.

In 2022, the first season of the Lifetime Grand Prix, organizers tried live-streaming in the first 200 events of the series, including Unbound Gravel3. Aerial coverage from 4x4 roaming cameras on the 200-mile route, including drones and 12-mile routes, combined with finish line cameras broadcast by flosports, made the effort, but the product suffered.

The technical limitations and remoteness of both Tushar's Unbound and later Crusher "proved insurmountable," and the joint decision of Life Time and FloBikes stopped broadcasting the last 3 events of the year. But the time of life has not given up.

"So the way we are approaching content this year is going to be different from the way we have in the past few years." One of our goals is to create more fandom in the sport. We're changing the format of our content to more for now," Michell Duffy, Senior Marketing Director for the Lifetime Event and Retail marketing division, told Cyclingnews.

"Trying to live stream in the first year of the Lifetime Grand Prix was aggressive. But we do not want to go there in 10 years, we want to try to get there in three years or five years. So we are continually testing different things. We've dabbled in different markets to understand what connectivity is like. And an example of that was on social media last year, where we went live for the last 15 miles of Rudd.

"Our focus this year has not yet come down the rabbit hole of the live stream. But instead of growing the model we tested in Leadville and growing Big Sugar, which is a "life" broadcast, the race highlighted the video that comes out 24-48 hours after the race, "

said that Life Time will provide live streaming only if it can provide high production quality, but the majority of gravel races will not." Remoteness continues to plague the process, but this year more live updates will be provided on social media. Instagram Facebook

Instagram and Facebook will be the leading social channels between the 200-mile and 100-mile races for intermittent live progress reports as well as stories - @lifetimegrandprix will focus on professional men and @UnboundGravel will focus on professional women. The unbound gravel 'X' account provides written race updates on Saturdays for professional men and women. 

In 2024, cycling fans will be able to watch a long-form summary video about how the race unfolded for free. The video is about 40 minutes long and will be available within 24-48 hours on the Lifetime Grand Prix YouTube channel. 

In order to update athletes to post split times at various checkpoints on the route, Athlinks will again provide timing information by Athlinks. 

The Lifetime Grand Prix Fantasy League is underway. No, you can't win a prize like a top athlete in the 60 Rider Field, but it's supposed to be fun, and as the saying goes, "If it's free, it's for me."

Starting with the first round of the Lifetime Grand Prix at Sea Otter Classic Fuego XL, fans can select their top 10 favorites (5 men and 5 women) in each of the seven races and compete for recognition as the top prognosticator. 

"The Fantasy League is just a fun initiative that we put out. There were some comments like "Pick Keegan in every race." But we created a Fantasy League that forces you to care about the entire Grand Prix, so you can only pick each player twice. That means we have to leverage a wider area and be really strategic," says Duffy.

Sofia Gomez Villafañe was the most common pick in the opening round selected by 80% of the participants. Keegan Swenson was chosen by 77% of fantasy leaguers, while Alexis Skalda and Haley Smith were added by 68% and 67% respectively. 

If the individual did not choose the Fuego XL rider, there will be the remaining time of the unbound gravel 200 so players can participate in the game at any time of the season, closing at 11:59 p.m. the day before the race.