day stage location dist. [km] asc. [m] desc. [m] (Altstadt station) 1 12.4 9 97 568 329 8 652 339 r=6974898 1 1 2 Heidelberg Neckargemünd Neckarsteinach 22.4 994 999 10/18/2016  photos   2 3 4 Neckarsteinach 16.5 13 493 442 479 438 Hirschhorn Eberbach 29.5 935 917 10/19/2016 photos   3 5 6 7a Eberbach 18.2 18.3 3.8 1.1 722 302 199 9 509 464 128 73 r=6974741 r=6974753 (RouteElevation) (pedometer) Neunkirchen Neckargerach Binauer Höhe (Binau station) 41.4 1232 1174 10/21/2016 photos & videos   (Binau station) 1.1 10 12.5 13.5 73 200 430 239 9 270 447 209 4 7b 8 9 Binauer Höhe Mosbach Gundelsheim Bad Wimpfen 37.1 942 935 10/28/2016 photos

View over Neckarsteinach to distal Katzenbuckel 1km to go to Eberbach On watergate Rockenau Vineyard view of Gundelsheim

Alternatively you could do stages 7+8+9 on day 4 (39.8km, +1086m/-1054m).
The 3.8km stage 7a contains ravine Margarethenschlucht.

You may insert Eberbach 3-Mountain Marathon (E3BM) route (43.7km, +1592m/-1592m) between stages 4 and 5 ;-)