The riders will meet again the loneliness of the time trial in the streets of Córdoba. This time they will have to fight against the clock for 36.5 kilometres along a flat and not very difficult route.

The route will only change slightly in the first kilometres from 100 metres high to 150 kilometres high on the 16.5 kilometre and down again to 130 metres in Córdoba, therefore the final triumph will be decided depending on the route and, specially, on the strength the riders use.

It is not the first time the people from Córdoba are witnesses of a time trial, it was in 1997, and the winner Melchor Mauri. In the 55 edition in 2000, Abraham Olano was the winner in Tarragona after having covered 37.6 kilometres at an average speed of 50.09 kilometres per hour with a time of 45:02.

That day Casero lost 15 seconds. If we take the 38 kilometres of the last time trial in the last edition of La Vuelta as a reference point, Santiago Botero achieved the victory with a time of 45:33 at an average speed of 50.055 kilometres per hour.