Last night we had again a very good dinner. Italians know the art of dining. With all the good food we enjoyed since the beginning, I’m not sure we lost weight!
Oh well, now it’s time to go back to Arraba. With our map from the info center and the owner’s we found a route back through the mountains and had it validated by the Refugio’s owner. We were good to go by this very sunny day.
The first part was pretty steep and we had to push the bike for a bit. But after that part, it was an amazing ride on ridge and valleys. My moment of glory was when I (Sonia) passed on my bike a bunch of Austrian guys who were pushing their bikes on a rocky climb. I gave all I could to make it, but it was worth it. I honored the Leader jersey from Alyson Sydor that I was wearing.
At km 24, the mountain part of that ride was done and the Austrians way behind. It was time to climb back the same pass as yesterday but from another side and from a higher starting point. I can tell that once up there we were tired but luckily, once the 17 km downhill done only 10 km were separating us from Arraba.
In a nutshell - we had a great day and we’re now ready to complete the next stage.
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Quel soulagement de vous savoir sorti des températures froides et pluvieuses des premiers jours. Vous semblez jouir maintenant davantage de vos vacances et l'on voit de par le ton de votre message que vous vous amusez bien et profitez pleinement de vos vacances.
ReplyDeleteC'est un beau défi que vous relevez et nous espérons que ce voyage répond à vos attentes.
Notre pensée vous suit à tous les jours.
Gaston et Yolande
Monday June 29-09
ReplyDeleteYou guys are amazing. It is really neat to be able to follow your progress and experiences and actually see them via your video clips. Love today's technology! We will have a full week of sunny hot weather here in Vancouver. There's lots of mountains for you to conquer in British Columbia! :) - gb