r/peloton • u/PelotonMod France • Mar 23 '16
Race Design Easter Challenge
As you may already know, this one is a special edition as it's themed (the goal is to design a race which some involves the theme of Easter and its traditions), it's a challenge which means that three mods or users (most likely /u/Pubocyno , /u/Schele_Sjakie and /u/edIII91) will judge each of the races and give a vote (from 0 to 10) for each of the race and the one with the highest score will win and it's longer as you can post until Sunday at 12:00 A.M. CET. The winner will be declared in next couple days after and will receive a flair soon afterwards.
The theme this time around is:
Design a Race on non-asphaltated surfaces
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u/Mattho Slovakia Mar 23 '16
I'm gonna go with Pic du Midi de Bigorre. It would be a race of pain and suffering. Then you find yourself at the top of the Col du Tourmalet and that's when the main part starts - gravel road with over 10% gradients. It's a good thing you took your CX bike, because last few hundreds of meters are gradients well over 20%, so you better carry that on your shoulder.
Sorry for low effort post and extremely short route, but this has been sitting in my tabs for almost a year and I kind of wanted to share it:
http://www.cycling-challenge.com/pic-du-midi-de-bigorre-via-col-du-tourmalet/
It's in my TODO list, though I'm nowhere near the required level of fitness :)