USA Pro Cycling Tour coming to….Telluride
Twelve Colorado cities will host next year’s USA Pro Cycling Challenge.
Next year’s race, scheduled for Aug. 20 through Aug. 26, will begin in Durango and end in Denver after some 520 miles of racing that include five ascents of passes over 10,000 feet.
Several sources, speaking on condition of anonymity because race organizers will not officially announce the route until Tuesday, confirmed that a dozen of the 25 Colorado cities and towns that bid for host status won a coveted stage. This year’s inaugural seven-day race started in Colorado Springs and ended in Denver, with 135 of the world’s top cyclists drawing one million spectators along a 518-mile montane route.
The first stage of the 2012 race will wind 111 miles from Durango over 10,222-foot Lizard Head Pass and down into Telluride.
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