Challenge Tour: Riding Day 5-> Lucerne to Rapperswil

Our longest and hardest day — a hundred kilometers from Lucerne to Rapperswil, and worth every one. We roll out flat along the Reuss to Zug, then climb into the hills: past Sattel and across the lonely Rothenthurm moor, and into Einsiedeln with its great pilgrimage abbey (and the best beer in Switzerland). Then one last climb over the Etzel, where the whole of Lake Zurich opens up beneath you before a long coast down to Rapperswil. Want a shorter day? There's an easy out at Zug, and I'll tell you how.