Tour de France stage 6: Aigurande>Super-Besse with Vande Velde

Author: admin

10 Jul

Location:
Massif Central, France

Overview:
Team Garmin-Chipotle riders are recording the stages of the 2008 Tour de France with their Garmin Edge 705s for all you data hungry fans out there. Each day, we will feature one rider and his data.

The race moves into the Massif Centrail and today’s 195.5 km stage finishes on the 11 km Super-Besse climb with an average grade of 4.7%. Before the final climb, the riders will ascend three other climbs: two category 2 climbs, Cote de Bellegarde-en-Marche (602m), Cote de Crocq (740m) and the category 2 Col de la Croix-Morand (1401m) with 5.2% average grade.

Christian Vande Velde puts in a gutsy ride today by attacking with just 5 km to go on the final climb. Though his move didn’t stick, he still managed to finish 19th on the stage. His performance today moved him up to fourth in the overall classification.