Tour de France Femmes 2024, Stage 8: Le Grand-Bornand → Alpe d'Huez
Mountain, 18 August 2024. 149.9 km with 3,748 m of climbing.
The route stored for this stage does not match the official course exactly: it carries 7,815 m of climbing against the official 3,748 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
- 149.9 km
- Climbing
- 3,748 m
- Highest point
- 1,915 m
- Start
- Le Grand-Bornand 912 m
- Finish
- Alpe d'Huez 1,818 m
The wind on the day
Averaged along the route between 12:30 and 16:45 local time: 6 km/h from the west, gusting to 24 km/h on average. Rain recorded along most of the route.
- Average wind
- 6 km/h
- Direction
- West 289°
- Average gust
- 24 km/h
- Temperature
- 17°C 9 to 21°C
Historical weather for 18 August 2024, sampled at 41 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
149.9 km with 3,748 m of climbing. On the route profile 52.2 km of the road rises at more than 3%, and 38.7 km of it is steeper than 8%.
The high point is 1,915 m at km 126. It finishes uphill, the final 3 km averaging 15.8%.
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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