Handle
@mercatmiller or Mustang Miller.
Base
Girona, Spain.
Terrain
Offroad > road any day of the week!
Three words
Playful, technical, energetic
The story
I first started cycling (road) in the summer of 2021 and instantly fell in love. It was at a time I didn’t have a separation between work and life balance and the bike gave me something else to focus on. The following year I joined the No Ordinary Women cycling crew in Amsterdam and met some of my best friends through NOW’s weekly rides.
In Sept. 2023 did my first gravel ride with some of the NOWcc crew and from there was hooked on gravel, 6 months later I stood on the sidelines watching a gravel race for the first time and couldn’t believe how few women were on the course.
So in 2025, I put all my free time into training and racing gravel and loved it. I learned sooo much about the sport and myself and really felt what it was like to leave it all out on the course. This year I’ve joined the Castelli Spirits of Gravel race collective and I’m really excited for what's to come both race wise and upping my training.
What is next?
This is my second season racing and I'm really excited to bump up my race calendar from 5 to 10 races this year. My big goal is to do well at The Rift in Iceland in July. It looks like a great event and a brutally exciting course!
Also, I'm planning some really cool events and meet ups for women around the different races I’m doing- hoping to build a community all over Europe for amateur women gravel racers.
Sidekick: Who you share the road with?
I’ve just moved to Girona and am still finding my crew, so currently my sidekicks are Taylor Swift and Britney Spears as I’m doing a lot of solo training ;-) But also my fiance Piotr Havik, it’s great to have a partner who shares the same passion as you do. We love bikepacking and traveling to races together.
The spot: Your ultimate place to ride?
I loved riding and racing in Mexico last year, the terrain was so varied and very different than the Netherlands (where I was living up until a month ago). It was really easy to go off the grid there and really explore, as there is so much open space and you can easily feel like you are the only ones out on the gravel. Mountains, desert, rocks, river valleys and lots and lots of cactus. Most of the area where we were staying was completely untracked by cyclists, even Komoot had nothing to recommend - so we got to make a lot of our own courses and new segments.
Girona is pretty spectacular for all things off-road, you can really get lost here and gravel for miles and miles with all types of varying terrain. I love the technical stuff, keeps my brain switched on and you get to really rely on your natural instincts to get through. Let your body and bike take over.
I’m loving the trend of fatter and fatter tires… means I can really tackle any terrain.
And I know I shouldn’t say this too loudly, but I really love riding in mud.
Gear pick: The one BBB product you never leave without
This is wayyyyy too hard- Things that never leave my bike; the Sealpack M saddlebag and now the Core Caps, they make deflating and inflating on the go sooo easy.
I’m also pretty obsessed with the Gravel Catcher. It’s so easy to put on and off and I think looks pretty cool when riding with it- I feel like I’m cosplaying as a mountain biker. Saves my back from a lot of Girona mud.
Photos by @castelli_sog
