This weekend of April 12, 2025, there is Paris-Roubaix but also Clermont-Ferrand. In another style, probably less professional, 150 cycling runners participated in a test at the top: 200 meters of climb with a final at more than 20%.
“The final is hot” blows to its participants on arrival: “I am completely torn off, it is completely unsuitable for the practice that I have, but it’s great”, he judges after the effort.
During the good -natured event, there are also music, disguises of all kinds and an atmosphere of supporters worthy of a turn of the Alpe d’Huez during the Tour de France. They were 150 participants From 8 to 78 years old and all with a very sharp race science : “The strategy is thoroughly at the beginning, thoroughly in the middle and thoroughly at the end” analyzes one two.
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“The infernal climb” by Clermont-Ferrand has no age
Credits: Alex Martin / AFP
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“It’s been 10 years since I lived in the neighborhood and I said to myself, this beautiful slope, I would like to organize a race“, tells AFP Pierre-Henri Malartre, 47, co-organizer of an unusual race which is only its second edition.
The winner put about twenty seconds to endure the hellish climb of Clermont-Ferrand and all here are determined to start again next year.
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