On Saturday morning we fly out to Munich to meet up with the other members of our Group. You can view a detailed summary of our trip via the link below.
We have all the detailed daily sheets so now know that we will be cycling 725 miles. We have done our training – maybe not as much as we would have liked – but Italy awaits.
The blog starts in earnest on Saturday 27th May.
There is a scientific formula for the maximum number of bikes a cyclist needs : N + 1. And here is the newbie: This is a TREK checkpoint ALR 5 Gen 3 gravel bike. Now I did already have a gravel bike but when I bought it at the height of COVID it was literally the only...
7 days later….. By the time we started leaving for the airport it was clear that 9 of the 12 riders in our group had been ill on that final day so the celebration dinner was a somewhat subdued affair with the traditional toasts made with glasses or either still or...
22 miles ridden - 190m climbed - Temperature 31C. A new perspective to yesterday’s collective struggle came clear this morning when 4 riders messaged that they had been up ill all night and wouldn’t ride today. Others were not feeling tip top but left as planned. The...
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