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TOUR DE FRANCE2026

Barcelona to Paris. 21 stages, five mountain ranges, two summit finishes on Alpe d’Huez. Below: every stage, the climbs that decide it, and the training principle a Roadman rider takes from each one.

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GRAND DÉPART

Barcelona · 4 July

FINISH

Paris · 26 July

STAGES

DISTANCE

3,333 km

CLIMBING

54,450 m

HIGHEST POINT

Col du Galibier · 2642m

Five ranges in order: Pyrenees · Massif Central · Vosges · Jura · Alps. Two rest days (Monday 13 July and Monday 20 July), one team time trial, one individual time trial.

ALL 21 STAGES

Tap any stage for the route, the key climbs, the Roadman take, and the content to train for it.

STAGE 1TEAM TT

SAT · 4 JULY

Barcelona→Barcelona

19.7 km

STAGE 2BREAKAWAY

SUN · 5 JULY

Tarragona→Barcelona

168.5 km

STAGE 3MOUNTAIN

MON · 6 JULY

Granollers→Les Angles

195.9 kmSUMMIT

STAGE 4BREAKAWAY

TUE · 7 JULY

Carcassonne→Foix

181.9 km

STAGE 5SPRINT

WED · 8 JULY

Lannemezan→Pau

158.3 km

STAGE 6MOUNTAIN

THU · 9 JULY

Pau→Gavarnie-Gèdre

186.2 kmSUMMIT

STAGE 7SPRINT

FRI · 10 JULY

Hagetmau→Bordeaux

175.1 km

STAGE 8SPRINT

SAT · 11 JULY

Périgueux→Bergerac

180.4 km

STAGE 9BREAKAWAY

SUN · 12 JULY

Malemort→Ussel

185.5 km

STAGE 10MOUNTAIN

TUE · 14 JULY

Aurillac→Le Lioran

166.6 kmSUMMIT

STAGE 11SPRINT

WED · 15 JULY

Vichy→Nevers

161.3 km

STAGE 12SPRINT

THU · 16 JULY

Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours→Chalon-sur-Saône

179.1 km

STAGE 13BREAKAWAY

FRI · 17 JULY

Dole→Belfort

205.8 km

STAGE 14MOUNTAIN

SAT · 18 JULY

Mulhouse→Le Markstein Fellering

155.3 kmSUMMIT

STAGE 15MOUNTAIN

SUN · 19 JULY

Champagnole→Plateau de Solaison

183.9 kmSUMMIT

STAGE 16TIME TRIAL

TUE · 21 JULY

Évian-les-Bains→Thonon-les-Bains

26.1 km

STAGE 17SPRINT

WED · 22 JULY

Chambéry→Voiron

174.7 kmTODAY

STAGE 18MOUNTAIN

THU · 23 JULY

Voiron→Orcières-Merlette

185.2 kmSUMMIT

STAGE 19MOUNTAIN

FRI · 24 JULY

Gap→Alpe d'Huez

127.9 kmSUMMIT

STAGE 20MOUNTAIN

SAT · 25 JULY

Le Bourg-d'Oisans→Alpe d'Huez

170.9 kmSUMMIT

STAGE 21SPRINT

SUN · 26 JULY

Thoiry→Paris — Champs-Élysées

132 km

A HUNDRED YEARS OF HARD

TOUR HISTORY, THROUGH A TRAINING LENS

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MERCKX · 1969–1974

Eddy Merckx: The Anatomy of the Cannibal

Five Tours, 525 wins, and an engine the lab could barely measure. What the most dominant rider in history teaches a time-crunched amateur — and what his early burnout warns against.

HINAULT · 1978–1986

Bernard Hinault: The Badger and the Art of Peaking

The last Frenchman to win the Tour didn't race everything — he picked his battles and arrived ready. The case for peaking, for the amateur who can't be in form all year.

INDURAIN · 1991–1995

Miguel Indurain: The Engine Room

A resting heart rate in the high twenties, lungs like bellows, and five straight Tours won at metronomic threshold. Big Mig is the masters athlete's case study in the aerobic engine.

THE ROADMAN ANGLE

EVERY STAGE IS A TRAINING LESSON

We’re not here to recap the racing — the whole peloton’s press corps does that. We’re here for what every Roadman listener actually wants: what does each stage demand, and how do you build it?

A team time trial is a pacing-and-turn-taking exam your chaingang sits every weekend. A summit finish rewards the rider who held their power number instead of chasing wheels. The queen stage on Alpe d’Huez is fatigue resistance made visible — the capacity to keep producing watts when you’re already deeper than you’ve ever been. Each stage page connects the day to the science and the sessions behind it.

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