With Pace
With Pace
Payson McElveen
Caleb Swartz on transitioning from cyclocross to the Grand Prix
1 hour 48 minutes Posted Feb 17, 2026 at 12:00 am.
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Caleb Swartz started racing cyclocross when he was eight years old, but the discipline has been dwindling in the US since the 2010s, and the writing has been on the wall for any American racers wanting to make a sustainable career from it. Last year, Caleb started branching out into a few gravel events just to see where it would take him, and he ended up with two standout performances at Grand Prix races — 11th at Little Sugar and 6th at Big Sugar. This year, he’s going all-in as one of the n...