20260613 – Day 01 – Part 02 -The Road to Milan

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The Road to Milan – Day 01 – Part 02 – St Jakob Park, Basel to Villers-Le-Lac

After cycling from the hotel to St Jakob-Park in Basel, where some nice photographs had been taken, after months of organisation and training, the cycle had now begun for real.

Todays cycle was from St Jakob Park, Basel which uniquely sits on the Swiss, French and German border in the North of Switzerland to Villers-Le-Lac which sits north west of lake the stunning lake Neuchatel

St Jakob Park, Basel

Villers-Le-Lac

Statistics:

From	To
St Jacob Park, Basel. CH	Villers-Le-Lac, FR

Miles	Elevation gain feet	Moving time minutes
81.4	6950	537

Lowest elevation feet	Highest elevation feet
850	3425

Route:

Route

Todays elevation and climbing

Relive

We can relive todays journey interactively by clicking following link:

Team picture pre departure

The Road to Milan – Day 01 – Video 01 – Descent of switchbacks

The Road to Milan – Day 01 – Video 02 – Overview of day from Sheffield CSC

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