Al's Ride Club

RIDE RECAP:

This was another amazing ride with over 50 riders! The course was particularly fun because it was filmed during the traditional Rund um Köln cycling race as a “May Classic”.

There were a lot of rolling hills and 3 small climbs. A few of them kicked up to over 10% gradient, which made it challenging.

After the climbs, most of the remaining ride had a downhill gradient and was pretty fast coming in! There was a small 1 man breakaway with about a mile to go and we all sprinted for the line in the last half mild. I managed to finish 4th. Overall, a great tempo ride with some easy and hard sections of riding.

HISTORICAL:

The ride in Cologne is the traditional Rund um Köln cycling race as a “May Classic”. It will a combination of elite and granfondo races: In addition to the professional race, the agenda once again includes both the Velodom 60 and Velodom 120 as well as the road tour Velodom 30, which is aimed at the general public.

Köln or Cologne is the largest city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and over 3.1 million people in the Cologne Bonn urban region. Cologne is also part of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region, the second biggest metropolitan region by GDP in the European Union. Centered on the left (west) bank of the Rhine, Cologne is located on the River Rhine (Lower Rhine), about 35 km (22 mi) southeast of the North Rhine-Westphalia state capital Düsseldorf and 25 km (16 mi) northwest of Bonn, the former capital of West Germany. (Wikipedia)

COURSE COMMENTS:

The Strava segment is the Grimberg Climb measuing 7.41 KM with a 2.2% avg gradient.

This course is a longer distance course of 43.36 miles with an average gradient of 1% with a maximum of 13%, with an elevation of 2230.97 feet. The course was added to ROUVY on August 27th, 2024.

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