From Sunday there will be a new owner of the tricolor shirt. In two days we will find out who will be Simone Velasco’s successor in the roll of honor of the Italian cycling championships, and it will be decided by the Forever Alfredothe race dedicated to the late Alfredo Martini, coach of the national team from 1975 to 1997, obtaining six world titles as well as seven silvers and seven bronzes.
In its fourth edition, the race promises to be long, with its 228 kilometres, and also quite tough. We start from Florence going towards Valdisieve and Mugello, until you reach Scarperia, where you pass through the Mugello circuit and will face a ring, with two minor GPMs.
We continue on a route composed of ups and downs and the first real climb begins, that of Crosses of Calenzano placed practically in the middle of the race. There are 2300 meters at 5.2%, with gradients that reach up to 8% when the first kilometer ends. Here the race could really start, with the first attacks to skim the group.
Descent towards the town of Calenzano and there you enter the central part of a circuit characterized by the climb of via di Baroncoli, not particularly hard (4.9 km at 4.4%) but which then, having definitively entered the final circuit, will be tackled four more times, tiring the group more and more. The last ascent is 8.6 kilometers from the finish line, where the decisive attacks can begin to escape in the final descent and arrive with arms raised towards Sesto Fiorentino.
