TDF – Col de la Madeleine is a training track for RealPower and Realaxiom.
It is a long climb, so far from the finish but for sure that remains in the legs of the runners for a long time.
There are nearly 20 km of continuous climb, that never introduce impossible tears, but that doesn’t give you breath.
This is one of the more well-known of the French mountain passes, much because of the frequent visits by the Tour de France over the years.
It is almost like a archetypical mountain pass, with almost equally long hard climbs from each side culminating with the summit placed between high mountain peaks – these are also almost equally high on each side.
The north climb has a slightly lower average gradient but is more irregular and therefore ultimately the harder side to climb.
It starts at around 420m from the small D97 road. From the south the climb starts in La Chambre (441m)
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