Gran Fondo

The full course: 143 kilometres on the highland roads that echo the 1995 World Championships route.

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This is the event’s signature distance. You roll out of Duitama at dawn, ride all day between 2,400 and 2,970 metres of altitude, and come back to Duitama with 2,138 metres of climbing in your legs.

No guesswork about the course here: the GPX below is the official file, and the profile you see is drawn directly from it.

Riders climb a cobbled street in a colonial town while locals cheer them on from their doorways. — The Gran Fondo runs through the towns of the province. People come out to their doorsteps.

Elevation profile

Drawn from the official GPX, point by point.

The numbers

Official distance: 143 km
Total climbing: 2,138 m
Start time: 06:00
Start and finish: Duitama, Boyacá
Course altitude: 2,398–2,968 m
Timed segments: 5

How timing works

Your result is not your total time for the course: it is the sum of the 5 chip-timed segments on this route — Punta Larga – Cargando, Puente Reyes – Gámeza, San Judas – Monguí, Tobasía – Alto de Tobasía, Alto del Cogollo. Between segments, you get to enjoy the ride.

See the segments, one by one

Segment cut-off times and course rules are in the regulations. Read the rules

A roadside sign announcing "100 m to the end of the timed Cogollo segment". — Your result does not come from total time, but from adding up the timed segments.

The route, on video

A full recon of this edition’s route, filmed on the road. We did not make it, which is why it credits whoever did.

Food and water on the road

There are feed and water stations along the course, with medical and mechanical support. The exact points are on the route card handed out with your kit.

Riders rest beside the marquees of a feed station, in the fog. — Water and food stations spread along the course.

Take the route with you

Load it onto your Garmin or into Strava before you travel.

Download GPX

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