l’Etape du Tour takes place on July 20th and is a 172Km cycle race starting in Montelimar and finishing with the utterly compelling Mt Ventoux. A climb I have been fascinated with ever since I read about Tom Simpson many years ago. This involves 22Km of climbing with an average gradient of 7.43% (that extra 0.43 makes a difference), all that after already riding for 150Km: The ride will be twice as far as I have ever ridden before in one go.
Here is a profile of the last climb taken from Wikipedia:
The profile of the whole race is here:
L’Etape takes place 5 days before the big boys tackle it on the penultimate stage of the Tour du France, perfectly poised to be the Tour’s denouement this year.
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