Kathy's story: Mid-State Gravel Grinder

BaseCamp athlete Kathy Peters shared her experience at the 2025 Mid-State Gravel Grinder bike race in Pennsylvania.

This was a perfect weather day for an awesome gravel ride. This was to be my longest gravel ride to date. Had to really work on pacing and not trying to keep up with the crowd. My primary goal was to use this ride as training for Rebecca's Private Idaho, which it proved successful. Most shocking to me was that I ended up 3rd in the Open Women's category and had lots of BaseCampers there to cheer me on at the finish. Challenging course, but I kept moving forward and had faith in my training from my wonderful BaseCamp coach, Lorri Lee Lown. The middle picture below is me with my fellow Basecamp Explore Team members, Ali and Amy.