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I'm loving some of the routes going back up at the moment! I'm going to jump back in though with the seventh stage of my 2019 Giro d'Italia. 2019 Giro d'Italia - S7 - Ancona - San Marino 121.9km Profile: Screen Shot 2017-03-09 at 1.52.22 PM by Sam Larner, on Flickr Map: Screen Shot 2017-03-09...

2019 Giro d'Italia - S6 - Teramo - Ancona 153.9km Profile: Screen Shot 2017-03-02 at 7.22.09 PM by Sam Larner, on Flickr Map: Screen Shot 2017-03-02 at 7.21.43 PM by Sam Larner, on Flickr Last 5km: 2019 Giro d'Italia - S6 - Teramo - Ancona 153.9km by Sam Larner, on Flickr Description...

2019 Giro d'Italia - S5 - Manfredoni - Pescara 206.7km Profile: Screen Shot 2017-03-02 at 3.43.23 PM by Sam Larner, on Flickr Map: Screen Shot 2017-03-02 at 3.43.50 PM by Sam Larner, on Flickr Last 5km: 2019 Giro d'Italia - S5 - Manfredoni - Pescara 206.7km by Sam Larner, on Flickr...

2019 Giro d'Italia - Stage 4 - Taranto - Cerignola 182km Profile: Screen Shot 2017-03-01 at 2.56.31 PM by Sam Larner, on Flickr Map: Screen Shot 2017-03-01 at 2.54.41 PM by Sam Larner, on Flickr Last 5km: 2019 Giro d'Italia - S4 - Taranto - Cerignola 182km by Sam Larner, on Flickr...

Stage 3 - Lecce - Lecce 24.6km TT Profile: Screen Shot 2017-03-01 at 2.29.08 PM by Sam Larner, on Flickr Map: Screen Shot 2017-03-01 at 2.28.13 PM by Sam Larner, on Flickr Last 5km: 2019 Giro d'Italia - S3 - Lecce - Lecce 24.6km TT by Sam Larner, on Flickr Description: That map is not a...

Stage 2 - Kavos - Corfu 121.9km Profile: Screen Shot 2017-02-28 at 2.48.34 PM by Sam Larner, on Flickr Map: Screen Shot 2017-02-28 at 2.47.44 PM by Sam Larner, on Flickr 5km to go: 2019 Giro d'Italia - S2 - Kavos (GR) - Corfu (GR) 121.9km by Sam Larner, on Flickr Description: We're...

2019 Giro d'Italia I haven't posted on here for a few months now, due to a very busy period at work. But it's eased off slightly and I've had time to create a Giro route for 2019. I think, possibly, this might be my best route - but I'm very willing to hear any and all feedback. The Giro...

2021 Tour de France After we've crawled our way west from the Alps, it's time for the four pronged finale in the Pyrenees. If everything has gone to plan all four jerseys will be up for grabs and there will be opportunities for the sprinters in the final five stages. The mountain stages are...

2021 Tour de France The Alps are behind us as we make the trek west towards the Pyrenees. Stages 13 and 14 should be some of the easiest of the race and will be the perfect carrot to tempt the sprinters through the first mountain range. However, like the rest of the Tour, each stage should...

Re: I like the idea of starting the Tour with some early mountains, which obviously isn't what I've done here. The risk with doing that is that someone blows away the field in the first couple of stages and then completely dominates the rest of the race. However, the thing that ruins stage...

All good points I think. There's also two more stages entirely outside of France so it's quite a multi-national Tour but I think you're right that it's better to get straight, or as quickly as possible, into France. I'm a big fan of those opening stages and I don't really think they can be...

2021 Tour de France The riders will spend the first rest day in Sion, Switzerland in the middle of a spell of racing in the Alps. They will face four stages in the region, including the Saas Fee stage, although only three will be considered as mountain stages. The average distance of these...

2021 Tour de France We've had six stages so far of the 2021 Tour de France. The route started in Copenhagen and for four days it resembled the Four Days of De Panne rather than the opening week of the Tour de France. The stages hugged the coastline and echelons would be possible on every single...

2021 Tour de France The opening weekend has been one for the sprinters but the next three days trend away from the coast and towards France. We won't actually be in France until the end of stage 6 so there's plenty of time to get used to Germany. Stage 4 - Hamburg - Willemshaven 202.1km...

2021 Tour de France I've spent the last few months looking at races in the undiscovered parts of the world; Tour of Cambodia, Tour of Issyk Kul in Kyrgyzstan. However, I decided to jump firmly back into the mainstream with an edition of the Tour de France. I should point out here, I haven't...