The second day of racing at the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift featured a rare split stage, which hadn’t been seen at the Tour de France since 1991. The peloton faced a challenging double-header consisting of a short, flat 67-kilometer road race in the morning, followed by a 6.3-kilometer time trial in the afternoon.
Reviving a once-popular tradition, the split stage doubled the excitement for spectators but proved less popular with the riders. The day felt like a revolving door of pre-race preparations, outfit changes, warm-ups, cool-downs, refuelling, and refocusing — turning the race into a mental challenge as well as a physical one.
