Day 7 Trento-Arco Last day of the race! I decided to start with Graeme, Paul, Karen, and Joan who I haven’t ridden with at all this week. We lined up at the very front of the “C” group. Just before the start Karen got a flat so I pulled out of the front of the [...]

Day 6 Kaltern-Trento I wanted to ride for myself today and thought of starting at the very back o the race to see how many people I could pass and how far up to the front i could get. We had a neutral start and I made sure I was the very last rider acfross [...]

Unfortunately I am starting this post from a hospital bed and it is going to be very short. I made it about 2 k into todays stage before I was blindsided by another rider. Many of the stages start with neutral starts to get the riders through the narrow roads that many of the towns [...]

Today started almost exactly like yesterday with bright sunshine and a climb that started right out of town. There is no way to explain how starting a ride with 2 hours of straight climbing can drain you. The Wurzjoch is not a particularly difficult climb but it is 25 kms (32 if you count the [...]

Another beautiful sunny day with 2 pretty good climbs ahead of us. The start out of Solden was pretty short and uneventful with the climb starting only a couple of kilometres out of town. The Timmelsjoch is one of those climbs that sweeps for long stretches along the side of the mountain so you can [...]

Day 5 Wow that was a hot one! With Mike spending the night in the hospital in Brunic we were unable to start as a team therefore we will have a DNF as a team. I am still able to continue riding and enjoy the rest of the routes they have planned for us. Today [...]