On Friday 19 June, more than 300 riders rolled out of Cittadella at 8 AM. No support vehicles. No nutrition stops. No one to call when it gets hard. Just a GPX track, a bike, and everything they packed for the road.
That's the Veneto Trail. And for the third year running, UDOG has been proud to be part of it — not just as a brand at a booth, but as a genuine piece of this community. Every edition reminds us why we build shoes: because people actually use them, in conditions like this, over terrain like this, for days at a time.
The first finishers have already made it back to Cittadella. Others are still out there, somewhere between the Dolomites and Monte Grappa. We're watching the tracker.
This year's route was the hardest yet — 480 km and 11,000 metres of climbing through the Asiago plateau, the Lagorai, the Pale di San Martino, and for the first time, the legendary Passo Pordoi. No shortcuts, no rankings, no time limit. Just you and the road.
To every rider who crossed the finish line — and to those still pedalling — this one's yours. You planned it alone, you rode it alone, and you'll finish it the same way. That's the whole point.
The Veneto Trail isn't a race. What it is — and what keeps us coming back year after year — is something harder to name: the particular satisfaction of finishing something genuinely difficult, entirely on your own terms. We don't make shoes for the podium. We make them for moments like that.