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PFEIFFER GEORGI MY TOUR DE FRANCE FEMMES
Cycling Weekly
|August 21, 2025
This year's Tour de France Femmes was easily the most challenging but also the most exciting and well supported edition I've done yet.
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Raced over nine days it was the longest edition since the rebirth of the race in 2022, and the longest stage race I'd ever completed. For those keen on numbers, the race hit me with a 2060 TSS block over 38 hours, and had my fatigue score on Training Peaks solidly into the 200s.
I've now had a few days to recover, or more accurately rot on my sofa catching up on Love Island, and wanted to share some of my highlights.
This story is from the August 21, 2025 edition of Cycling Weekly.
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