Where is the Ultra Géant de Provence - UGP decided?
On the long leg from Veaux to Mont Serein and over Mont Ventoux, just past half-way. Veaux to Mont Serein is the longest leg of the race, 19.6 km with 1,280 m of climbing, and half the effort is done on it. You arrive at Veaux with a little more than a third of it behind you. Inside the leg sits the biggest climb of the course, from Pont St Leger to Col du Comte: 697 m, steep on average. At the time-limit pace you reach Mont Serein at about four on Saturday afternoon. Over the whole course, half the distance climbs and a fifth climbs steeply.
Mont Ventoux follows straight after. The climb to the summit is short and the steepest of the big ones, and from the top the biggest descent of the race drops 1,084 m to Le Sueil, steep on average. At the time-limit pace you reach Le Sueil at about twenty to eight in the evening. From there to Barroux Village the course loses more height than it gains.
The start is hard too. The first leg, to Bout du monde, climbs 841 m in 14.9 km, at night at the time-limit pace, and ends with a steep drop to the aid station. The next leg crosses Col du Comte for the first time and drops just as steeply to Combe Arnoux.
The hardest leg per kilometre comes late: Gigondas to Bas de St Amand, 7.2 km with 467 m of climbing, a little harder than the course’s average. It ends with the last big climb, steep, up to Bas de St Amand. At the time-limit pace you reach Gigondas at about twenty to two on Sunday morning, with most of the effort done.
The last leg back to Malaucène is 9.7 km past Pas du Loup and Col de la Chaîne, and it descends more than it climbs. Eight aid stations split the course; the longest stretch between two is Veaux to Mont Serein. At an even pace that uses the whole 29:30 time limit, you finish at about half past five on Sunday morning.
Organiser's distances and heights; Pendio's shares and clock.