Design Your Own Tour – Stage 5: The Mountains
Ever wondered how it feels to ride a brutal mountain stage in the Tour de France? This article will help you design your own version of a summit battle – scaled to your fitness, but still epic.
Ever wondered how it feels to ride a brutal mountain stage in the Tour de France? This article will help you design your own version of a summit battle – scaled to your fitness, but still epic.
The first three stages of the 2025 Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift (TdFFaZ) have seen favorites abandon, crash or announce injuries, much of this carnage related to the Giro d’Italia Women, which ended only two weeks before the TdFFaZ began.
Lidl-Trek’s Jonathan Milan won the Škod Green Jersey with a late stage win and a harvesting of intermediate sprint (IS) points to deny Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates–XRG), who was not actively competing in that competition. His margin of victory over the yellow jersey winner…
Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates–XRG) and Jonas Vingegaard (Visma–Lease a Bike) fought yet another tooth-and-nails duel for three weeks, though some of the suspense fell out of it after the Dane lost 1:05 to his Slovenian nemesis in the stage 5 time trial. Vingegaard’s deficit…