The 2025 Tour de France begins in Lille, featuring a unique route that gradually increases in difficulty. The early stages are flatter, leading to challenging climbs in the Alps and Pyrenees in later weeks. Organizers have improved the race by integrating successful elements from other races, creating a mix of hilly and punchy stages. The first ten days are particularly engaging, with a focus on keeping strong competitors within close range before tackling serious mountain stages starting from Stage 10. A guide is available for daily stage previews to enhance viewing experience.
The Tour always gets more difficult as it goes, with the race beginning on flatter terrain before hitting the Alps and Pyrenees in some order in the second and third weeks to assort the winner.
The route that the ASO put together for 2025 is one of my favorite in recent memory. There is not a real mountain day until Stage 10, and the Tour won't climb anything rated either 1 or hors catégorie until Stage 12.
The first 10 days will be anything but boring... they did a great job of making both transitional stages and those set up for sprinters way more interesting than usual.
The intention of this guide is to serve as a place where you can come on any given day of racing and see what sort of stage you'll be in for.
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