Warming up for the winning December Tour with some short tours in Africa.
Tour du Nigeria: 5days, 2Middle mountain, 2 Flat and a medium individual timetrial.
Etape1: Final is: 6 3 8 11 1 -11 -5 -2
Etape2: Final is: 7 5 -1 -6 -9 -10 6 7 9 4 -1 -1 0 0
Etape3: Should be easy for sprinters, but the finish is on a -2. Hopefully, nobody will crash.
Etape4: Again simple race for sprinters with no sieb km. 0% at the end this time.
Etape5: 25km of time-trial on the final day to decide the GC.
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Tour of Rwanda: 4days, 1flat stage, 1mountain top finish and 2 exciting hilly stages.
Stage1: HC. very steep climbs at the beginning, but doesn't really matter because of how far it is...the last climb to the finish line is: 8 5 0 4 8 0 6 7 5 9 8 9
Stage2: Flat. It begins with a few short hills, on km105-106 road is 6% 7% but then all flat or downhill until the end.
Stage3: Middle Mountain. But nothing too hard, few hills during the first part, then mostly flat...there's one 7% 32km before the end, then a slight downhill that leads to a 6%. from there it looks like this: 6 4 2 2 1 0 -2 -7 -2 -3 -6 -4 6 -7 0 0 -1 -1 2
Stage4: Middle Mountain. 100km simple and flat, to enter the final circuit in Kigali.
circuit: -1 -4 6 6 6 6 5 4 4 4 4 1 -6 1 -2 -6 -13 -8 -10 -4 -2 -2 7 6 -1 -1 0 0 0
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