Tour de France Femmes 2024, Stage 4: Valkenburg → Liège
Hilly, 14 August 2024. 122.7 km with 1,840 m of climbing.
The route stored for this stage does not match the official course exactly: it carries 777 m of climbing against the official 1,840 m. 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
- 122.7 km
- Climbing
- 1,840 m
- Highest point
- 186 m
- Steepest km
- 3.9% at km 85
- Start
- Valkenburg 72 m
- Finish
- Liège 67 m
The wind on the day
Averaged along the route between 12:30 and 15:45 local time: 12 km/h from the west, gusting to 25 km/h on average. Rain recorded along most of the route.
- Average wind
- 12 km/h
- Direction
- West 267°
- Average gust
- 25 km/h
- Temperature
- 20°C 18 to 22°C
Historical weather for 14 August 2024, sampled at 17 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
A hilly 122.7 km carrying 1,840 m of climbing: 4.7 km of the route is above 3%, 0.0 km above 8%. Not a mountain stage, but nothing about it is flat for long.
The high point is 186 m at km 88. The steepest kilometre on the profile averages 3.9%, at km 85. It finishes on flat or gently rolling road.
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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