Here's the route:
- Stage 1 (Feb 14): Sacramento
- Stage 2 (Feb 15): Davis - Santa Rosa
- Stage 3 (Feb 16): Sausalito - Santa Cruz
- Stage 4 (Feb 17): San Jose - Modesto
- Stage 5 (Feb 18): Merced - Clovis
- Stage 6 (Feb 19): Visalia - Paso Robles
- Stage 7 (Feb 20): Solvang
- Stage 8 (Feb 21): Santa Clarita
- Stage 9 (Feb 22): Rancho Bernardo - Escondido
The big standouts:
- 1 more stage, no more prologue
- The race finally makes it to San Diego (County) with a finish in Escondido.
- Sausalito - Santa Cruz! I'm excited to see the Cruzians get their stage finish, even if it means that Palo Alto lost the bid.
- No more Big Sur route (Monterrey - SLO), perhaps due to last year's death march. Sausalito - Santa Cruz will probably provide some Pacific Coast Highway scenery to compensate
- Most of the stage routes are brand new, though a couple (San Jose - Modesto, Davis - Santa Rosa) appear to be reversed routes from last year.
- Modesto-Clovis could have some good mountain climbs in it. It will be the first time the ToC hits the Sierras.
