Sunday 21st June
Finally a decent nights sleep thanks to massage and possibly the fine vino Rosso I had at dinner.
This blog will be in brief bullet points as its Monday evening now, have another day to write up and I'm a bit knackered!
- Up early, sourced a coffee from the signor at reception then we bundled into the van, back up the hill to a trail head to take us to Lago di Sarapiso. Judging by all the cars already there, it must be akin to Roy's Peak and one with views for the gram.
It was stunning, we didn't make it down to the lake as it was pretty technical and rocky so was more of a hike in places and by the time we returned it was a highway of trekkers coming towards us.We ran down a ski field track to the van and made it up to 10 km, a slow 10 km at 1h 45 but it loosened me off nicely
- Demolition of breakfast buffet and bags loaded as we are on to Canazei tonight
- Departed on the bikes and back up the Falzarego as per day 1 except no turn off for the Giau this time. I can safely say I felt a hell of a lot better climbing today, in fact I felt smooth and a "no chain" type of day. We descended and luckily saw the turn off on a VERY sharp corner which took us down a quieter road ( less motorbikes. Omg they are so courteous towards cyclists as are most drivers here but the noise just ruins the serenity of such a beautiful place and there are SOOO many of them ). and we ended up in a small village called Caprile so the 4 of us decided to stop for a quick espresso before we tackled the Fedaia.
-Left the coffee shop and I couldn't clip into right pedal; the rear plate which catches the back of the cleat was half hanging off. Eh?WTF? I pushed it back in but as soon as clipped the cleat in, it came loose.
So that was the end of my ride as certainly wasn't attempting a 13km ascent one legged ! Waited an hour for the SAG then spent another couple of hours doing support duties and filling bottles etc for the others still on course. Who assured me it was hot and the last 2-3 km were NASTY. Humph would still have rather had a ride but anyway, c'est la vie.
-Arrive Canazei, sort gear. It's very hot. The hotel is very salubrious although there doesn't seem to be any air con and it's so hot inside it feels as if central heating is on. Great for the ski season I guess
-Had time for a bimble around the town and found a cup of tea that I had been craving for about 4 hours then dinner in the sauna of a dining room, which also had poor acoustics so was glad to return upstairs for a cold shower and put my ear plugs in.
Monday's schedule starts with a visit to the pool which John has booked for 2 hours, yikes. That means swim races and other atrocities ahead .We are riding the Sella Ronda after that which I am looking forward to. Pedal has ben screwed back together so fingers Xd no more mechanicals.
- Back tomorrow with Monday's musings :-)
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