The worst of race profiles

[tobydawq]

OK, this is a map, not a profile, but it deserves to be preserved for its pointlessness. All the interesting detail is in the last part, so let's label it all for clarity:

Paris-Tours 2024

Crazy that they can't come up with a better system.

I like their profiles a lot but the maps are trash (even if this one is particularly funny).

 

[Sandisfan]

@Sandisfan

Why is it funny that they removed a cobbled descent that led to horrible injuries on several occasions?

Wasn't aware of that. Seemed funny at the time.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Well it started in Lhasa and finished in Lhasa, and did 9 laps in 90 kilometres, so I'm say never more than 5km from Lhasa.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Well, yeah, but...

 

[Libertine Seguros]

2017 Tour Alsace:

2023 edition with PCS showing a more accurate version of the same set of climbs:

 

[YavorD]

2017 Tour Alsace:

So LPDF is just a false flat?
Now I get why so many people on this forum don't like the "climb".