First two stages of ToB Women now have routes
Today we can publish the routes for the opening two stages of the 2024 Tour of Britain Women in Wales, ahead of the Grand Départ in Welshpool in just 34 days.
www.britishcycling.org.uk
Well, the final climb in stage 2 is probably 20-25km out and is 6km at 5,2%.
By Women's Tour of Britain standards that's HC.
First stage looks terrible, and a return to classic British race organiser tropes with obstacles that are decent but nothing like anywhere close to where they can be used decisively. The second climb looks like it might even be just a false flat that barely has any real ascending, but I hope it's a second road which is parallel to the one it looks like on the map which might be ok, has about 100m vertical.
And I mean, finishing in Llandudno, would the Great Orme really have killed them to include? It's right there, in the town, and everything. You don't need to have a puncheur finish, you can still finish in town by just doing part of it - go up Ty-Gwyn Road, down St. Tudno's, around the promontory coast road and finish back in town.
But I'm sure the town wanted pictures of a big bunch sprint in front of their town monuments and children banging boards like it's the 13:40 at Newmarket as usual.