The day after a GFNY is held, every athlete who finished the race gets an email with a post-race survey that captures rankings as well as feedback. The race organizers do read the surveys – thank you for sharing your feedback, it helps us to continue to improve and evolve the experience. If you take part in a race but do not receive a survey email in the days immediately following the race, you can go to your gfny.cc account and you can access the survey link from your GFNY.cc account.
Have your say in determining category winners of the 2023 Athlete Choice Awards by responding to the post-race survey. We appreciate reading areas your GFNY can improve, but also hearing where your GFNY did great!
Here are the GFNY Athletes’ Choice Awards 2022 results:
The GFNY Conference offers expert panels on training, travel, the GFNY World Calendar and the GFNY World Championship NYC 2023
New York City, January 26, 2023 – The GFNY Conference will take place this Sunday January 29, 2023. GFNY invites all athletes to register for free and to tune into the GFNY Conference which will be presented in three different languages:
French at 12pm CET
English at 12pm ET
Spanish at 2.30pm ET
All four panels will be held in each language.
Panel 1
34 GFNY races in Asia, Europe, North America South America in 2023 – whether for a first timer, someone going for a three-timer medal, or climbing the ladder to ten, twenty, or more GFNY finishes, we will discuss all that’s available to the riders on the always growing GFNY calendar.
Panel 2
Get an introduction to the brand new GFNY Training Plans on the Training Peaks platform, the latest addition to the GFNY Coaching offerings.
Panel 3
What a GFNY rider can expect on race day and how to arrive calm, prepared, and ready to enjoy the experience.
Panel 4
How an athlete should choose a GFNY race to maximize the experience and achieve the set goals.
GFNY Global Endurance Sports Series is a sports event company with three decades of experience in racing, planning and organizing events. The global endurance sports brand hosts multiple events throughout the year around the world on five continents.
Working with partners around the world to deliver a first-class experience, GFNY Global Endurance Sports Series puts its athletes first.
Cycling
30-plus events held around the world. View the latest calendar here
Riders get to BE A PRO FOR A DAY ® by competing against others, themselves and the clock in a personal endurance challenge.
Top 10% (20% at regional championships) of finishers in each age group qualify for the Elite Qualifier Corral at every GFNY World event.
GFNY World Championship NYC
The 11th annual GFNY World Championship New York will be held on May 21, 2023. The race features the world’s most international peloton with riders from over 90 countries. Athletes take on a challenging 100-mile route from NYC to Bear Mountain to Fort Lee to compete against each other, the clock and themselves in a personal endurance challenge.
New for GFNY NYC 2023, we are adding a new category celebrating the club with the most finishers. Already 300+ clubs are signed up and will be represented on May 21st. Many returning clubs like Swatt Club, Team Colavita, Road Kings, CCNS Charles Coaching, NYCC, BTCNJ and more!
There are a number of clubs that are doubling or tripling their presence in 2023 like Officine Mattio, Peru NY, PinnoyBiker, sumitate-sab-mtb Argentina, ASPTT Mulhouse, Major Taylor Cycling Club, Milano Cycling, Bergenline Cycling Club, 305ycle, Rosa Cycles, Key Biscane Velo Club, Just For Giggles Cycling, Chile Adventure, Bocadillo, Bike Mart, The Eagles, TriWave, Urban SOS CC, Westchester Cycle Club and others – thank you for joining GFNY NYC 2023!
Important: In order to be ranked on the same team, make sure you and your teammates enter an identical team name. Adding an extra letter or deleting a space will mean your team name doesn’t match and you won’t be ranked with the team.
If you want to check, edit, or add your team name, go to gfny.cc and log into your GFNY account with your email. Go to the Tickets tab and click on Edit. You can make changes like your jersey size, distance and team name until 21 days before the race.
Looking back at GFNY 2022, we want to give a shoutout to the most-represented clubs at GFNY NYC 2022:
ASD Swatt Club
CCNS Charles Coaching
Colavita Cycling Club
Fire Cycling Team
Maglia Nera Cycling
NYCC Racing
Penka Cycling
Road Kings
Ruta 56
Team Roula
USADA announces four year suspension of the Mexican rider for antidoping rule violation at GFNY Florida 2022
NEW YORK CITY, January 12, 2023 – A sprint decided the race after 95 miles at the 3rd GFNY Florida Sebring on October 23, 2022.
At the finish, however, there was a controversy during the antidoping controls administered by USADA: fourth place finisher Elias Montañez Barros (Merida, Mexico) sprinted away faster from the antidoping chaperone than to the race finish. After a hectic chase, he was found at his car, changed and ready to leave.
First he pretended to be someone else but his wristband identified him. He then was brought to the USADA testing tent where he was explained the consequences of declining to be tested: a lengthy racing ban. Yet, he refused to get tested and walked off. And not only that: he raced a week later in his home Merida and finished third there. Furthermore, he accused GFNY and USADA for running illegal antidoping controls and smearing his reputation.
Barroso received a four year suspension from USADA for “evading sample collection or refusing or failing to submit to sample collect without compelling justification.”
In addition to this four year, global racing ban starting November 30, 2022, he received a lifetime ban from racing any GFNY. Montañez Barroso has been disqualified from all competitive results obtained subsequent to GFNY Florida Sebring.
“There is the saying you can’t make a racehorse out of a donkey,” says GFNY CEO Uli Fluhme. “And I long believed that. But I’m no longer sure.”
“In the lead group of four that I watched from the race director’s car, he clearly stood out. The other riders looked great and smooth on their bike, like experienced riders do with thousands of miles in their bodies. Barroso on the other hand looked uncomfortable and moved a lot on his bike. He didn’t look the part. Why was he in this group of elite riders and ex-pros, all guys who train 15,000-20,000 miles per year? Now we know. Modern drugs are powerful and clearly able to drastically distort true performance levels.”
“In competition (IC) testing is and remains important to show force and detract athletes from cheating,” says GFNY CEO Uli Fluhme.
“IC testing is often dubbed an ‘IQ test’. But it also means that athletes have to microdose or stop taking drugs earlier before the race. Add to that the performance detrimental anxiety of actually testing positive. Half times of drugs aren’t an exact science because they depend on the athlete’s metabolism and factors like hydration. All this forces a doper to take less drugs. And if they don’t expect to get tested at all – like Montañez Barroso – then IC testing is obviously as effective as out of competition (OOC) testing.”
OOC testing remains a key pillar of GFNY’s antidoping strategy since 2012 when GFNY was the first mass participation race to do so. GFNY keeps exploring ways to keep its races as clean as possible. The vast majority of riders race clean and deserve this effort.
“Sadly, we’re quite alone among mass participation race organizers with our antidoping actions,” Fluhme adds. “I’ve lobbied for two decades for antidoping at mass participation races but it’s costly so most prefer not to spend money on it. While we keep doing what we can, I highly encourage riders to choose wisely where to race. At GFNY, dopers are not welcome – and we make sure they know.”
USADA adds in their press release: “In order to aid athletes, support team members, parents and coaches, USADA provides clear instructions on its website on the testing process and prohibited substances, how to file and update athlete whereabouts, how to obtain permission to use of necessary medication and the risks and dangers of taking supplements as well as performance enhancing and recreational drugs”.
About GFNY Global Endurance Sports Series
GFNY Global Endurance Sports Series is a sports event company with three decades of experience in racing, planning and organizing events. The global endurance sports brand hosts multiple events throughout the year around the world on five continents.
Working with partners around the world to deliver a first-class experience, GFNY Global Endurance Sports Series puts its athletes first.
Cycling
30-plus events held around the world. View the latest calendar here
Riders get to BE A PRO FOR A DAY ® by competing against others, themselves and the clock in a personal endurance challenge.
Top 10% (20% at regional championships) of finishers in each age group qualify for the Elite Qualifier Corral at every GFNY World event.
GFNY World Championship NYC
The 11th annual GFNY World Championship New York will be held on May 21, 2023. The race features the world’s most international peloton with riders from over 90 countries. Athletes take on a challenging 100-mile route from NYC to Bear Mountain to Fort Lee to compete against each other, the clock and themselves in a personal endurance challenge.
GFNY has partnered with TrainingPeaks to help you prepare for your next race with a GFNY training plan. The easy-to-follow plans will help you get started with structured workouts and train smarter to achieve your race day goals.
Achieve your goals by training with a GFNY training plan. The plans are written by GFNY Coaches, with options for beginner, intermediate and advanced cyclists, and are tailored for the type of GFNY race course you’ll be racing – flat / rolling hills, or mountains.
Top Cyclists Use TrainingPeaks
With TrainingPeaks you can quickly upload training data, view workouts, add notes and make analysis informed decisions about your training. Use the same training software as many top performance teams to achieve your personal performance goals.
Train The Right Way
Confidence comes from the perfect strategy combined with the best training tools.
Take advantage of the Premium Athlete Edition
With extra insights and data, it’s a great tool to give you more insight into your training. With a TrainingPeaks Premium subscription, you unlock exclusive features, including:
Advanced Heart Rate, Pace, and Power Charts
Weekly fitness summaries
Peak Performance management charts
Future workout planning
The ability to add notes, reminders and updates
Premium-only beta features such as StackUp and weather forecasting
Not ready for Premium? All GFNY athletes receive a free Basic Edition account.
Explore GFNY Training Plans
Benefit from training structure and work out smarter by following a GFNY training plan. GFNY training plans are designed to give you flexibility and control over your training process and adjust based on how you feel, the weather and your physical condition.
Choose by your experience level, plus the type of race course terrain you’ll be taking on. The GFNY training plans will give you the expert instruction and motivation needed to reach your race day goals. Delivered on our web and mobile platform, there are training plans for every level of athlete and every type of race.
A customized training plan for you with GFNY Coaching
If you are looking for a personalized training plan that is better tailored to your schedule, cycling experience, fitness and goals, check out GFNY Coaching. No matter your goals or level of experience in cycling, with GFNY Coaching you get personalized training plans, advice, and guidance to do your best at your next race. Whether you have a couple of months to tune-up, or half a year to change yourself completely as a rider, you will be ready to earn that PR, get your highest placing ever, or finish your first GFNY.
Quality Coaching
Our GFNY Coaching team is made up of qualified coaches with years of success in working with athletes of all fitness levels and varying experience in sport. Most importantly, GFNY coaches have raced GFNY and know GFNY races inside and out, and understand perfectly the demands of every event on the GFNY calendar.
Customization
GFNY Coaching training plans are personalized to your experience, fitness, personal schedule and goals. Through conducting the initial coach interview plus regular communication with your coach, your coach creates your personalized plan by taking into account your training history, your goals, when and where you can train, and every other detail that goes into creating a successful training plan.
Flexibility
GFNY Coaching was designed to give you flexibility in your training process. The various coaching plans offer a value for every budget, and our month-to-month payment means no lengthy contracts or commitments.
The long-awaited GFNY training plans on the perfect platform
NEW YORK CITY, December 28, 2022 – GFNY, the Global Endurance Sports Series, is working with TrainingPeaks as the Official Training Partner of GFNY. TrainingPeaks will offer its complete web, desktop and mobile tracking, analyzing and planning system to all GFNY participants, helping them achieve their goals.
“Our athletes kept asking us for training plans so they can best prepare for GFNY races,” said GFNY President Lidia Fluhme. “We chose TrainingPeaks as the platform to provide the best possible experience in their preparation for their GFNYs.”
TrainingPeaks has been a global leader in providing smart and effective digital training solutions for cyclists and cycling coaches for more than two decades. Combining official GFNY training plans withTrainingPeaks Premium will allow GFNY athletes to commit to a goal, structure their training and track their progress leading up to their race.
GFNY’s training plans are offered in three languages: English, Spanish and French. Cyclists can choose the right training plan, based on their experience level and the type of race course terrain they will be racing.
“We’re thrilled to be the official training partner for GFNY,” said Dirk Friel, TrainingPeaks co-founder and Chief Evangelist. “Combining efforts to offer GFNY training plans powered through TrainingPeaks is a logical choice, and sets GFNY athletes up with the best training experience to achieve their race goals and reach the start line stronger, faster and more confident.”
GFNY Coaching is another way to utilize TrainingPeaks with GFNY training plans that are custom written by GFNY coaches for GFNY athletes: training plans – GFNY Global
About TrainingPeaks
TrainingPeaks creates endurance training apps and solutions that help athletes and coaches reach their goals. Featuring the world’s largest endurance training marketplace, athletes can find personalized training plans, accredited coaches and powerful tools to track their progress. Coaches can earn accreditation, reach more athletes and grow their coaching business. Additional products include theRun With Hal adaptive training apps, andWKO5 desktop software for putting-edge scientific analysis. TrainingPeaks is trusted by Tour de France teams, IRONMAN® World Champions, Olympians, age-group athletes and coaches around the world. Learn more attrainingpeaks.com.
About GFNY Global Endurance Sports Series
GFNY Global Endurance Sports Series is a sports event company with three decades of experience in racing, planning and organizing events. The global endurance sports brand hosts multiple events throughout the year around the world on five continents.
Working with partners around the world to deliver a first-class experience, GFNY Global Endurance Sports Series puts its athletes first.
Cycling
30-plus events held around the world. View the latest calendar here
Riders get to BE A PRO FOR A DAY ® by competing against others, themselves and the clock in a personal endurance challenge.
Top 10% (20% at regional championships) of finishers in each age group qualify for the Elite Qualifier Corral at every GFNY World event.
GFNY World Championship NYC
The 11th annual GFNY World Championship New York will be held on May 21, 2023. The race features the world’s most international peloton with riders from over 90 countries. Athletes take on a challenging 100-mile route from NYC to Bear Mountain to Fort Lee to compete against each other, the clock and themselves in a personal endurance challenge.
World’s largest cycling marathon brand, GFNY, announces its biggest event calendar ever for 2023
NEW YORK CITY, December 14, 2022 – GFNY, the Global Endurance Sports Series, announces 32 races for 2023, more than ever held by GFNY in a single year.
Races include the 11th annual edition of the GFNY World Championship in NYC on May 21, six races in France, three in Mexico, a second race in Colombia, GFNY’s first races in Malaysia’s capital, Kuala Lumpur, Sweden, Thailand, near Chicago, near Washington DC, and many more.
What is GFNY
GFNY is a personal endurance challenge where athletes compete against others, the clock, and themselves. Some athletes will compete for the podium, some to earn their GFNY Elite Qualification, others to finish in their goal time, and others to beat the cut-off. GFNY is about doing one’s best.
GFNY events provide athletes this personal challenge in exciting tourism destinations around the world. All GFNY events provide athletes the opportunity to BE A PRO FOR A DAY® :
Mass start.
Individual chip timing from start to finish with awards for all categories.
Closed roads or police moderated traffic that ensures athletes don’t have to stop during the race.
GFNY: physical and mental health
Hosting a GFNY is not merely about getting the “right” tourists. It’s about physical and mental well being which makes GFNY attractive for the immediate constituents of governments. Post pandemic, governments like the City of Quito, Ecuador’s capital, double down on healthy outdoor sports activity by supporting not just a GFNY Quito Cycling but also the GFNY Quito Running Marathon & Half Marathon.
“What GFNY is today is the result of the work we put in during the pandemic,” says GFNY President Lidia Fluhme. “We connected with over 200 government agencies to bring GFNY and GFNY riders to their region. As a result we have 15 new races within two years to show for – and more in the pipeline.”
A GFNY near every rider in the world
GFNY’s goal has always been to bring a GFNY race near every rider in the world. Before GFNY’s founding in 2010, very few riders had close-by access to a mass participation cycling race where every rider can get the chance to BE A PRO FOR A DAY ®.
In less than five years, GFNY created a landscape of mass participation races for riders across the Americas, spearheading the growth across the two continents.
“With our new races in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Krabi, Thailand, we’re finally expanding GFNY’s footprint in Asia. There are more GFNY races to come in Asia in 2023, which add to GFNY’s success story in Indonesia with Bali, Lombok and Sumatra,” says GFNY CEO Uli Fluhme. “It’s our goal to mirror in Asia what we have been able to do in the Americas.”
GFNY World Championship New York City
NYC is the world’s capital city and provides a world-class backdrop and puts the sport of cycling and its athletes on the world stage. GFNY NYC is the Mecca of GFNY and the pillar of the series. This globally-renowned event has a fanatical participant base that travels to NYC from over 90 countries each year, making it the most international cycling event in the world.
GFNY NYC provides a once-in-a-lifetime experience to line up on the world’s busiest bridge, the George Washington Bridge, which is closed to cars, creating cycling’s most exciting cycling race start line in the world. With views of midtown Manhattan skyscrapers and the serene nature to the north, the start corrals on the George Washington Bridge are comprised of professional cyclists, Olympians, a variety of special guests like actors, musicians, sports stars and other celebrities, and 5000 athletes from all walks of life who are taking on the 100-mile (160km) challenging course from New York City, through Bergen County, NJ and Rockland County, NY and finishing in Fort Lee, NJ.
The race starts on the George Washington Bridge, but each athlete’s journey begins long before that. GFNY NYC’s 10-hour long live broadcast is cycling’s boldest live broadcast and captures the race, but also many athletes’ stories, and continues until every rider crosses the finish line. The 2022 live broadcast was available in English and Spanish, and in 2023, the broadcast will be also in French and Portuguese. Besides the live broadcast, GFNY NYC receives worldwide media attention from a wide variety of outlets: local tv and newspapers, to international cycling media and international newspapers and TV.
GFNY Global Endurance Sports Series is a sports event company with three decades of experience in racing, planning and organizing events. The global endurance sports brand hosts multiple events throughout the year around the world on five continents.
Working with partners around the world to deliver a first-class experience, GFNY Global Endurance Sports Series puts its athletes first.
Cycling
30-plus events held around the world. View the latest calendar here
Riders get to BE A PRO FOR A DAY ® by competing against others, themselves and the clock in a personal endurance challenge.
Top 10% (20% at regional championships) of finishers in each age group qualify for the Elite Qualifier Corral at every GFNY World event.
GFNY World Championship NYC
The 11th annual GFNY World Championship New York will be held on May 21, 2023. The race features the world’s most international peloton with riders from over 90 countries. Athletes take on a challenging 100-mile route from NYC to Bear Mountain to Fort Lee to compete against each other, the clock and themselves in a personal endurance challenge.
Join us at Maryland’s hardest and biggest road race! 92 miles of racing with police-moderated intersections along the entire course. Approachable medium course of 48 miles at a more casual pace. Fully stocked aid stations and mechanical and SAG van support. A finisher medal & post race meal for everyone!
GFNY Maryland race week activities take place in downtown Cambridge. You will be picking up your race packets and enjoying the post-race festivities, music, awards, and the post-race meal at the green space at Race Street & Cedar Street.
GFNY Maryland starts at the aptly-named Race Street in the heart of Cambridge’s downtown.
After leaving Cambridge, you enter Dorchester County, a place of natural, unspoiled beauty, with waterways, marshlands, farm fields, woods, and quaint small towns. Enjoy views of beautiful Chesapeake Bay coastline. Race past the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, a 27,000-acre place of striking marshlands, bald eagles, great blue herons, and more. You will also pass through the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park.
The race course is flat and fast, with occasional high winds. GFNY Maryland is GFNY’s flattest GFNY, making it fast for athletes who are working together in a peloton, but is also a very beginner-friendly course with great support along the entire course!
Long route riders repeat the loop a 2nd time before heading back to downtown Cambridge.
An authentic Chesapeake town on Maryland’s storied Eastern Shore, Cambridge has a rich maritime tradition, including shipbuilding, sailing, fishing, crabbing, waterfowling and more. With an outdoors & nature-loving culture, a rich history, charming small towns, and a slower and friendlier pace of life, Cambridge and Dorchester County offer you a wonderful opportunity for a getaway.
Cambridge is located near the metropolitan areas of Washington, DC and Baltimore, yet when you arrive to Cambridge, you’ll enjoy its small town charm. The surrounding areas include stunning nature, flora, fauna, local farms, rolling hills and ponds. Highway US-50 is known locally as the “Ocean Gateway,” with the segment running from Choptank River to Ocean City known as the “Sunburst Highway.”
Cambridge has local attractions and activities for the entire family.
Getting Here
AIRPORTS
Traveling to Cambridge is easy by air, with two major airports that serve Washington DC, Baltimore airport and Philadelphia airport.
If you want to combine the trip with a visit to Washington DC, fly to Reagan Washington (DCA) or Dulles (IAD).
If you want the airport with the shortest driving time, fly to Baltimore (BWI).
Philadelphia (PHL) is a great option with many airlines flying direct, making the trip faster and easier.
Many car rental options are available at each airport to make your trip to Cambridge fast and easy. Here are the driving times to Cambridge from the nearby airports:
Scheduled for October 1, 2023, Cambridge will host a “flat ‘n’ fast” GFNY race
GFNY Maryland is the latest addition to the GFNY Global Endurance Sports Series, making it the fourth GFNY cycling race in the USA in 2023. Scheduled for October 1, 2023, riders compete on the flattest and likely fastest race of the GFNY circuit.
GFNY Maryland race week activities will take place in downtown Cambridge. Located on Maryland’s storied Eastern Shore, the downtown has a rich maritime tradition, including shipbuilding, sailing, fishing, crabbing, waterfowling and more.
“GFNY Cambridge Maryland is the long awaited east coast fall race in driving distance to the mother race in New York City,” says GFNY President Lidia Fluhme.
“But it obviously just as much if not more so will be the “home race” for the large crowd of GFNY fans in the DC metro area. GFNY Cambridge Maryland is ideal to close out the race season – and punch that qualifying ticket for the racer corral at any GFNY for the following 380 days – including the World Championship in NYC in May.”
The course goes through Dorchester County, a place of natural unspoiled beauty with waterways, marshlands, farm fields, woods and quaint small towns. The race will not only pass along the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, a 27,000- acre place of striking marshlands, bald eagles, great blue herons and more but also through the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historic Park.
About GFNY Global Endurance Sports Series
GFNY Global Endurance Sports Series is a sports event company with three decades of experience in racing, planning and organizing events. The global endurance sports brand hosts multiple events throughout the year around the world on five continents.
Working with partners around the world to deliver a first-class experience, GFNY Global Endurance Sports Series puts their athletes first.
Cycling
30 plus events around the world. View the latest calendar here
Riders get to BE A PRO FOR A DAY ® by competing against others, themselves and the clock in a personal endurance challenge.
Top 10% (20% at regional championships) of finishers in each age group qualify for the Racer Corral at every GFNY World event.
GFNY World Championship NYC
The 11th annual GFNY World Championship New York will be held on May 21, 2023. The race features the world’s most international peloton with riders from over 90 countries. Athletes take on a challenging 100-mile route from NYC to Bear Mountain to Fort Lee to compete against each other, the clock and themselves in a personal endurance challenge.
