Giro del Trentino
The first stage of the Giro del Trentino went up my usual training climb today, a great opportunity to see how it should be done. I rode up to Ronzo-Chienis under a warm sun to see the finish of the stage and ended up freezing on the roadside for an hour under torrential rain in 1mm of lycra waiting for the race to arrive. I'm sure anyone who has gone to see a major stage race in the mountains knows the feeling!
At least while I was waiting I met Peter the photographer for the KRKA cycling team (Slovenia), the only amateur team in the race and made up entirely of riders under 23yrs. So good luck to them for the rest of the race, should be good experience for them.
The stage finished with a first category climb from Loppio to Ronzo-Chienis, unfortunately they missed out the hard bit which continues on up to Passo Bordala. As far as Ronzo it's 11km of fairly consistent 7-8% and not very selective so it was to be expected that the stage ended in a sprint which Simoni didn't contest and Casagrande lost out to Niemec (Miche).
Took it *very* easy on the wet roads back down to Rovereto as I'm not too keen to repeat my performance of 18 months ago when I managed to break my hip on this descent with a bit of careless cornering (well officially I blame gravel on the corner).
Forecast is snow over 1100m for the next couple of days, I'm starting to get concerned that Passo Stelvio won't be open for the Giro next month, anyway let's hope.Comments:
Great photos, I can't wait to get out there for the Giro, I hope the ProTour teams can sort out their differences with the race organisation.
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