Burke Swindlehurst started racing bikes in the late 1980s and built a successful career as any rider to ever emerge from Utah. After his retirement from the peloton in 2010, he founded the wildly popular Crusher in the Tushar race that takes place annually in the Tushar Mountain Range near Beaver.

Burke Swindlehurst, past race director and course designer of the 2022 Crusher In The Tushar presented by The Creamery thinks he has designed the hardest gravel race in the world. Crusher In The Tushar features a 60/40 split of gravel to pavement with 10K feet of climbing and a summit finish at 10K feet above sea level. Weather often can vary anywhere from 30 to 60 degrees from the start in Beaver, Utah to the finish in Eagle Point, Utah. We had over 20 members of the Mi Duole participate in Crusher last year with many finished on or near the podium. This race is a big part of our culutre!  We all sit at our computers ready to refresh and submit at the moment the race is taking registration. What you built is truly something that this team, who loves to suffer, wants to be a part of. 

“Mile for mile there is not a tougher race on the planet” Burke said of Crusher last year.