Liège–Bastogne–Liège, often called La Doyenne ("The Oldest"), is one of the five Monuments of the European professional road cycling calendar. It is run in the Ardennes region of Belgium, from Liège to Bastogne and back. The Liège–Bastogne–Liège Challenge is a mass participation amateur cycling event held every year, on the day before the race.
The ultimate challenge is to ride the entire course as the pros will do the day after. However, the routes of 156 km and 75 km will also leave you plenty of opportunity to get to know the most famous climbs of the legendary Liège-Bastogne-Liège race.
273 km (meters of climbing: 4500m)
156 km (meters of climbing: 2647m)
75 km (meters of climbing: 1250m)
The route of Liège–Bastogne–Liège Challenge crosses the two eastern Walloon provinces, Liège (province) and Luxembourg, from north to south and back north. Its distance is more or less fixed at 250–260 km. The event starts in the center of Liège, after which the course follows a straightforward 95 km (59 mi) route southwards to Bastogne, and a winding 163 km (101 mi) route back to Liège. The second half contains most of the climbs, such as the Stockeu, Haute-Levée, La Redoute, and Saint-Nicolas before finishing in the Liège suburb of Ans.
