Via Francigena cycling tour planning: “stage calculator”

I've created this little spreadsheet to help me plan a cycling tour following the Via Fancigena pilgrimage in Italy, and thought I'd share it in case it helps anyone 🙂

Via Francigena: Grand-St-Bernard to Rome Calculator

I started with this excellent Komoot collection by Nicola Amadini, which details 23 stages from the Gran St Bernard pass to Rome. However – I don't have enough free time to do this in 23 days, and seeing that each stage is rather short for a day's ride (averaging 30 miles / stage), I thought I'd do 1, 2, or 3 stages each day and try to complete this in 10-14 days.

To figure out how long I'd need, and where I'd stop every night (in case accommodation has to be booked in advance), I wanted to play around with the stages and find an optimal schedule where:

• No day is too hard
• Longer rest stops are in more interesting destinations (e.g. San Gimignano or Siena)
• Harder days are spread apart

I ended up creating this "calculator" and I'm sharing a short video with instructions on how to use it. Maybe someone else would find it useful ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

BTW – I plan do follow this plan starting on June 6th! holler if you're in the area 🙂