The Giro is getting serious now with the first real contact with the mountain

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First serious relationship Italy is spinning with the mountain If until now the third and fourth category were the ports that had to be crowned by the cyclists starring in the 106th edition of the Corsa Rosa, this Tuesday the level is rising with the presence of up to three levels of the second category.

This fourth chapter It consists of two parts, the first 40 kilometers are quite broken where the runners will try to warm up their legs to face the real roller coaster that awaits them with more than 3,500 meters of accumulated unevenness in the middle of Apennines.

The first mountainous difficulty that cyclists have to attack is the Crocelle Pass (1,136 meters), to which is added the Valico di Monte Carruozzo (1,136) before dealing with the final increase in Colle Molella (1,084 meters), there is already a larger entity. If in the previous climbs the average gradient was around 5%, the Colle Molella (9.6 kilometers of climbing at an average of 6.2%) presents a central section of 3 km at 10% and a maximum ramp of reaches 12%.

A day so that the runner or team who wants to can plant many wars, either on some previous climbs, on their respective descents, or on the last climb. A priori, the show is guaranteed.

Source: La Verdad

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