After ruffling a few feathers with its first season, Life Time is bringing back Call of a Life Time for a second season. The web series covers the events of the Life Time Grand Prix, which also just wrapped up its second season, much as Netflix’ Unchained covered the Tour de France.
Life Time says the second season will take a different approach than the first season. Instead of alternating between men’s and women’s races all season, Call of a Life Time will focus on just four events in the series. Unbound Gravel and Leadville Trail 100, both iconic races before the Grand Prix, will get two dedicated episodes, one for the men’s and one for the women’s racing. Sea Otter Fuego XL and the finale at Big Sugar Gravel, the next biggest events, will each get their own episode, but with men and women covered at the same time.
When the event host, Life Time, is also the creator and broadcaster of the show, there’s always going to be a little bit of self-aggrandizing hype. Life Time really leans into that for this trailer with some bold claims.
The series is interesting, but calling itself the “biggest off-road racing series in the world” is a very questionable claim when the World Cup still exists and there are numerous other series that allow more than 35 riders (now 30 riders in 2024) on the startline. But Life Time does at least have a lot of cash for prizing for the few riders that are allowed to start. Also, saying that this is the “first time” American gravel racing is important is a stretch, as mixed-surface racing in the U.S. pre-dates the two-year-old series by a substantial margin. In fact, several of the biggest races in the series were well established before Life Time acquired them and bundled them together into a series.
But hey, those minor quibbles aside, it should be fun to watch. And Life Time Grand Prix is arguably bringing new eyes to gravel and endurance mountain biking, which is always good. Have a gander at the Season 2 trailer for Call of a Life Time and see what you think. The full season two will be available free online on January 26, 2024 and really, what else are you going to watch in January?
Call of a Life Time Season 2: Official Trailer
Here’s what Life Time says about the Call of a Life Time S2 trailer:
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