Future Courses: France

There’s another little island in the South Pacific, between the islands they use for Makuri and Watopia. I’d love to see them ditch the idea of using actual gps coordinates for some of these smaller worlds, pick them up, and put them together on that little island. Have a little tunnel that links the small worlds together, so there’s still some distinction between them. But that solves the Strava concern, because they are all in the same geographic space. London, Yorkshire, Scotland, Richmond, Innsbruck, Bologna; move them all to the Pacific and link them together.

France should continue to be expanded, and Paris should be picked up in the same way, and moved to France. Why have a “world” with one clockwise / counterclockwise lap in it? Connect it to the rest of France. And then as @marblehead pointed out, there’s a built in reason to expand France every year. All cyclists’ eyes are on France anyway; roll out some new roads. Put another mountain climb in there. Expand on it to build enthusiasm for the Tour de France Femmes.

New York can go in the bin.

So you have 4 distinct worlds. Watopia, Makuri, France, and UCI-Land.