Tour de France Prologue Map

The Tour de France begins tomorrow morning. Here is the map of the Prologue - 8.96 km TT
I'll be logging some serious TV time over the next month.






Course Summary
Course Distance Start Time
Prologue - (8.9 km) 6.0 Sat,
Stage 1 - Rotterdam to Bruxelles (223.5 km) 140.0 Sun,
Stage 2 - Bruxelles to Spa (201 km) 123.0 Mon,
Stage 3 - Wanze to Arenberg Porte du Hainaut (213 km) 132.0 Tue,
Stage 4 - Cambrais to Reims (153.5 km) 94.0 Wed,
Stage 5 - Epernay to Montargis (187.5 km) 115.0 Thu,
Stage 6 - Montargis to Gueugnon ( 227.5 km) 144.0 Fri,
Stage 7 - Tournus to Station des Rousses (165.5 km) 103.0 Sat,
Stage 8 - Station des Rousses to Morzine-Avoriaz (189 km) 117.0 Sun,
Stage 9 - Morzine-Avoriaz to Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne (204.5 km) 130.0 Tue,
Stage 10 - Chambery to Gap (174 km) 115.0 Wed,
Stage 11 - Sisteron to Bourg-les-Valence (184 km) 122.0 Thu,
Stage 12 - Bourg de Peage to Mende (210.5 km) 127.0 Fri,
Stage 13 - Rodez to Revel (196 km) 126.0 Sat,
Stage 14 - Revel to Ax 3 Domaines (184.5 km) 109.0 Sun,
Stage 15 - Pamiers to Bagneres de Luchon (187 km) 116.0 Mon,
Stage 16 - Bagneres de Luchon to Pau (199.5 km) 124.0 Tue,
Stage 17 - Pau to Cul du Tourmalet (174 km) 108.0 Thu,
Stage 18 - Salies de Bearn to Bordeaux (198 km) 122.0 Fri,
Stage 19 - Bordeaux to Pauillac (52 km) 32.0 Sat,
Stage 20 - Longjumeau to Paris Champs-Elysees (102.5 km) 46.0 Sun,

These stages have the following profiles:

1 prologue
9 flat stages
6 mountain stages and 3 summit finishes
4 medium mountain stages
1 individual time-trial stage (51 km)

Distinctive aspects of the race:

le Tourmalet climbed twice
a hint of the Classics and cobblestones
2 rest days
23 level 1, level 2 and highest level mountain passes

11 new stage towns:

Arenberg Porte du Hainaut, Bourg-de-Péage, Bourg-lès-Valence, Gueugnon, Longjumeau, Pamiers, Pauillac, Sisteron, Station des Rousses, Tournus, Wanze (Belgium)