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Lost Ride 2026 has its winners. Ondřej Mohyla and Karel Fišer reached the finish together in 3 days, 18 hours, 17 minutes and 19 seconds. Counting sleep, stops, and all the waiting around, that makes an 8.8 km/h average. On paper, almost comfortable. In reality, this was not a cafe gravel spin. This was Lost Ride.

According to the tracker, they spent roughly a quarter of the time resting. The rest was riding, pushing, roots, hunger, half-useful micro-sleep, and the familiar reminder that a forest road can take a rider apart better than any motivational coach.

A major part of the race ran through Bavaria and, technically, nothing serious went wrong. Bavaria simply added its own discipline: Corpus Christi, locally Fronleichnam, landed at the beginning of June and turned resupply into an almost full-day fast for everyone. Shops closed, stomachs empty, morale tested harder than legs.

Big respect to Ondřej and Karel. They rode hard, kept their heads, and made the first Lost Ride under the new name look exactly as rough as it should.

The elevation profile is out. The route is not shorter, not flatter, and not trying to be polite.

Yes, it is now 800+ km. The original estimate did not count some asphalt downhill sections, because rolling downhill on nice tarmac is not recognizable effort. Counting it now may look generous. It is not. It just makes the number more honest.

Total climbing: 17,700 m. Lowest point: 297 m above sea level. Highest point: 1,240 m. Average altitude: 611 m. A quarter of the route is below 480 m, and a quarter is above 740 m.

According to our measurements, almost everything is rideable, so about 90% of riders should reach the finish by Saturday evening.

If this makes you think registering was a mistake, that is a reasonable tactical assessment. Bring low gears, brake pads, and legs that do not complain too early.

We can finally confirm the start location. Lost Ride 2026 will roll out from Camping Ejpovice.

The camping kiosk is usually closed on Tuesdays, but on start day it will be open from 17:00 to 22:00 just for us. Riders will have space to arrive, sort the last details, and get ready before the night start. Dinner will be ready for riders at the kiosk. The public is welcome too, so come by, say hello, and help send the riders out properly.

Parking tip: Parkoviště v Rákosí.

After the last route checks we can confirm one thing: this year will not be only about distance and climbing. There will be roots. Proper ones. The kind that make you pick a line carefully and still keep you honest a few metres later.

There will also be ruins and castles along the way, because Lost Ride should still give you something worth looking at between the rough sections. Start the engines.

By the way, registration is still possible, but only with app navigation.

We have adjusted the estimated ascent for Lost Ride 2026 down to just 15,000 m. The previous number looked a bit too wild and apparently scared quite a few riders before they even had the chance to panic about the terrain itself.

So here is a fresh teaser and a friendlier number. The route will still be proper Lost Ride, just without the need to open with twenty thousand metres in every conversation.

Last weekend we were out checking the route and cutting anything that felt like pointless punishment. In the photo it looks like a chill little path by a pond, almost something for a Sunday walk, but don’t let that fool you.

There will be plenty of flow, but also some proper rough MTB bits. We tried to keep it mostly rideable both up and down, with only a few short bits where you will have to get off. And yes, you will pass this pond in the dark, so here is the tame daylight version before the night gets its turn.

We are rebuilding the Lost Ride archive so the history of the race is easier to explore.

The last five years are already online, and we will keep adding older editions.

The start is getting close and, even if things have seemed quiet from the outside, preparations are in full swing.

If you’re in for Lost Ride, we’d appreciate it if you sent your entry fee now.

Please pay the 2800 CZK entry fee to bank account 2102070199 / 2010.

You can also pay in euros to account CZ33 2010 0000 0021 0207 0199 in the amount of 125 EUR.

Nobody knows where this year’s Lost Ride route will go yet. What we can already confirm is that it will pass ancient castles and forest tracks that many riders have never ridden.

We are working on the route right now, and over the coming weeks we will check the key sections in real conditions to make sure the experience is as good as possible. This is the first year with a new organising team, but everything looks promising and our goal is clear: to keep Lost Ride a race unlike anything else.

Instructions for paying the start package will be sent by email soon and will also be published here on the website.