🕒#ILombardia presented by @CA_Ita 2024 🍼
On the 12th of October the cycling peloton tackles the final monument of the season: Il Lombardia. The queen of the Italian autumn classics is the monument for the climbers and every years features an exciting route packed with iconic climbs. We take a look at it's profile.
The route is extremely long, the traditional, and it packs in a lot of mountains in the region of northern Italy right at the base of the Alps. 255 kilometers on the menu with both long and short climbs spread all throughout, with a total of 4800 meters of climbing. A proper climber's race, the monument best suited to them. The race does have a flat start but it doesn't take long until that changes.
Bergamo - Como, 255 kilometers
Four climbs marks the first half of the race. We have got the Forcellino di Bianzano (6.3Km at 5.1%) and quickly after the climb to Selvino, added after a late change that removed the Passo di Ganda due to a landslide. Afterwards comes the Colle di Berbenno which is 4.5 kilometers at 6.2% and finally the Valpiana ascent which is over 10 kilometers long at 6%.
However this phase of the race won't see serious attacks, but instead only be used to create fatigue; perhaps some contenders will have their teams force the pace to make it hard from early on. A long flat section will follow before reaching the famous Madonna del Ghisallo, but it will be tackled through it's easiest side.
It consists of two small climbs with a short descent in the middle. The first of which is 5 kilometers long at 5.6% and the second is 8.1 kilometers long at 3.7%. In these gradients it's very hard to make a difference, however the descent will be very technical and provides an opportunity to explode the race before it's main climb.
Madonna del Ghisallo: 8.1Km; 3.7%; 78Km to go
Sormano is a very well known in cycling, but the riders will be thankful that they won't tackle the famous 'muro'. Instead, the riders will ascend through the main road. It is a climb that is nevertheless very difficult, featuring almost 13 kilometers at 6.4%. The climb is rather constant with high gradients and is the hardest of the day, where the winning attack may come. It ends with 42 kilometers to go though, still a long way to the finish.
Colma di Sormano: 12.9Km; 6.4%; 42Km to go
From there on there is a long descent, a small rolling section and then another descent into Como where the riders will ride through in order to reach the final ascent. This one will be to San Fermo della Battaglia: 2.8 kilometers at 6.7%. It's by far not the hardest climb of the day but with 250 hard kilometers in the legs, even the strongest climbers can make differences between each other. However, that is not too likely.
What is known is that the summit comes with only 5.2 kilometers to go and what follows is a technical and fast descent that leads into the final 1.5 kilometers. Any gap over the end of the climb means an almost certain victory.
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San Fermo della Battaglia: 2.8Km; 6.7%; 5.2Km to go
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- The likelihood of RE improving enough at this point to outclass TP or JV is less than zero.verve82521-12-2024
- That’s the most stupid thing I’ve read for a long time, did you not go to school and learn even the most basic physics? Aero depends on one thing only, drag, drag depends speed and the relationship is squared and apart from maybe at zero or the speed of sound or due to side winds that relationship is valid at all speeds, it dies not “suddenly” start at a magic number. Very simply, the faster you go the more the effect becomes important. If you think 25km/h is needed to have noticeable effects you’re delusional, athletic WR are cancelled as soon as winds top 2m/s that’s 7.2km/h, why because the assistance is already too important at that speed and the times prove it. You don’t even consider wind which can significantly increase the effective speed for aerodynamics and you underestimate speed of climbs, 6% is ridden more at 30 than 25km/h, a speed at which early generation high rims were considered to have more advantages than disadvantages. And finally, as in normal races you can’t just switch bikes according to terrain, it’s pretty pointless to discuss climbs as a separate situation, the aero will have justified itself plenty during the rest of the ride.Mistermaumau21-12-2024
- If you look at how much TP progressed in that 1 1/2 years you can no longer say that’s nothing. If Remco improves as much he’s a challenger!Mistermaumau21-12-2024
- Froome wishing to ride the Vuelta...he won't even be selected for the team!frieders320-12-2024
- Keep telling yourself that Remco but you not only have Tadeg to beat but Jonas!frieders320-12-2024
- Seems farfetched - I agree. Mas has beaten him once. Giro d'Emillia I think - 2022mobk20-12-2024
- Barring injuries, by the time Pogacar's dominance fads there will be lots of new young talent. Pogacar is about 1 1/2 years older than Remco. That's nothing.Sweep20-12-2024
- I actually don’t find that too impressive. In my later forties I did similar figures for a 3.5% gradient as a total nobody with no wind assistance. Am sure there’s margin for improvement there, especially looking at all the names on that list.Mistermaumau20-12-2024
- Jonas', was 6 years agospock12320-12-2024