Samara Sheppard

The spirit of gravel is still alive and well with 🤠

Loved racing the timed sectors, then enjoying the gravel roads and singletrack between sections with other riders and stopping in the feed zones to refuel. Proper cowboy country out there!

And a pretty cool chunky silver medallion from the Silver State to take home too 🥇

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Nevada map loading for 🤙🏼

Back in Cali just in time to nip over to Carson City, Nevada this Saturday. Luckily entries are still open! Excited to journey into Pine Nut Mountains for this untraditional gravel event 🤠

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Inspiring couple of days in Athens 🇬🇷 at the 2026 UCI Mobility & Bike City Forum.

Special to share the legacy work continuing in Wollongong since the 2022 UCI Road World Championships. Fantastic to hear the ideas and perspectives shared across the other panels and cities working to create more bike-friendly communities too.

We also got to experience the city by bike alongside the Tour of Hellas - the best way to connect with people, culture and place 🫶🏼

200 ✨

Really enjoyed racing this bucket list gravel event! So cool to race so many strong, talented ladies in gravel. Had a good little group to work with for the most part after the race blew apart. We were caught from behind with ~15km to go, coming to a sprint finish - I lost a few places, ending up 11th. Happy with the day and grateful for the support this week and for nailing the feeds!

360 next year!?

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Loving the vibe here in Girona - it’s living up to the hype!

Ready to take on 200 tomorrow. Fun course, stacked women’s field… Vamos 🔥

Turns out I did a pretty good job staying out of sight from the camera at over the weekend 😅

In reality though, there was nowhere to hide out there. The race absolutely lived up to the hype - a brutally hard day out on some of the best roads Sonoma County has to offer.

I hung on and fought to stay in the mix as long as I could, but the legs were pretty zapped after 230km and 4000m of climbing.

P7 on the day.

𝙊𝙉 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝘼𝙏𝙏𝘼𝘾𝙆 Sea Otter Classic highlights out now on YouTube 👀

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Fantastic day of racing with a stacked field of talented ladies at — P10!

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Go time in Monterey !!!

My third year of the getting underway - nervous, excited and hyped to get amongst it.

Let get it 👊

The first thing I wanted to do when I joined the OCC Exec was have GRAVEL added to the events calendar. Very cool to see that come to life today with the team delivering a cracking event - with strong fields 🔥

Congrats to our first UCI Oceania Gravel Champions & 👏

Happy to start the season here; 4th overall, 3rd Oceania.

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