Becs Gentry CCC Run Reveals Her Boldest Challenge Yet

Becs Gentry Is Headed to Chamonix for CCC

Becs Gentry CCC preparation is no longer a guessing game for Peloton members. HOKA confirmed this week that its global ambassador and Peloton Tread instructor is headed to Chamonix, France, this August to run CCC at UTMB Mont-Blanc, one of the most demanding courses in trail running.

Gentry explained the shift in a video posted to HOKA’s Instagram account. “My relationship with running is weird right now,” she said. “Everyone has this expectation of me as a figure in running.” She described taking a step back after realizing the anxiety attached to that pressure was not worth carrying.

Trail running became her reset. “That’s where I used to feel so at peace, when I’m, like, away in nature,” she said in the video, before landing on the question that set the Becs Gentry CCC plan in motion: could she give CCC a go? The race asks a lot from any competitor. It asks even more from someone who spends most of her year training around Brooklyn rather than mountain terrain.

The Becs Gentry CCC Build Begins

As a HOKA Global Ambassador, Gentry has spent months building toward a race that covers roughly 62 miles with nearly 20,000 feet of elevation gain across France, Italy, and Switzerland. The Becs Gentry CCC buildup also closes a loop The Clip Out has been tracking since March, when her Napa Valley Trail Marathon win raised questions about what she was training toward. She followed that with her first appearance at the Canyons 50K in April, then tested herself further at the Speedgoat 50K in Utah this July. Each race added the climbing and technical terrain experience CCC demands.

Gentry also addressed a detail that once made her uneasy: trekking poles. “You’re gonna see me with my poles out, walking up that hill, and I’m no longer embarrassed,” she said, “because that is what allows me to get to the finish line.” The poles have become a practical tool rather than a source of self-consciousness, a shift that lines up with the training breakdown she shared in her recent strength work for runners content.

The training also showed up in her Peloton classes. Over the past several months, Gentry has programmed noticeably more hill work into her Tread rides, building the climbing strength and pacing skills a course like CCC demands. That hill work fed directly into her Becs Gentry CCC preparation, and members who have taken those classes were, in a sense, training alongside her the whole time.

From Brooklyn Streets to Alpine Trails

Gentry closed the video with the line that sums up why she took this on in the first place: she is only here once, and she likes doing hard things to see how she gets through them. The Becs Gentry CCC start line sits in Courmayeur, Italy, with the finish in Chamonix, part of the 2026 UTMB World Series Finals running August 24 through 30.

The Becs Gentry CCC story is far from finished. Race weekend will determine how months of Brooklyn-based preparation, and all those hill-heavy Tread classes, translate to nearly 20,000 feet of Alpine climbing. We cannot wait to watch Becs climb that mountain.

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