La Marmotte
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La Marmotte is one of the toughest and most spectacular one-day events in Europe, only 175km but with well over 5000m of climbing, finishing on that most famous of Tour de France battling grounds, the Alpe d'Huez.
This year (2005), the route will be slightly longer as one of the tunnels into St. Jean de Maurienne is being widened. This means an alternative route has to be taken via the Col du Mollard, which adds about 10k and 400m of climbing.
