Giro d'Italia 2024, Stage 1: Venaria Reale → Torino
Hilly, 4 May 2024. 140.0 km with 1,851 m of climbing.
The route stored for this stage does not match the official course exactly: it measures 144.8 km against the official 140.0 km. The distance and climbing above are the official figures; the profile and the gradient figures measured on it come from the stored route, so read them as indicative of the terrain rather than an exact reproduction of the stage.
- Distance
- 140.0 km
- Climbing
- 1,851 m
- Highest point
- 692 m
- Steepest km
- 9.1% at km 141
- Start
- Venaria Reale 256 m
- Finish
- Torino 227 m
The wind on the day
Averaged along the route between 12:30 and 16:00 local time: 3 km/h from the south-east, gusting to 15 km/h on average. Dry.
- Average wind
- 3 km/h
- Direction
- South-east 133°
- Average gust
- 15 km/h
- Temperature
- 17°C 14 to 19°C
Historical weather for 4 May 2024, sampled at 31 points along the route and pre-computed before the app shipped. It is not a live forecast and the app makes no weather calls. Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0).
Riding it
140.0 km with 1,851 m of climbing. The road rises at more than 3% for 21.7 km of it and is above 8% for 6.4 km, so the climbing comes in repeated efforts rather than one long ascent.
The high point is 692 m at km 123. The steepest kilometre on the profile averages 9.1%, at km 141. It finishes downhill, the last 3 km descending at 4.3%.
In ProPace the stage runs with this wind along the route, resolved into headwind, tailwind and crosswind at each point, and the app puts your own numbers on it against the pro reference. The reference profile and how the simulation works are set out in How much slower than a pro are you?
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