Lately before now

Lately before now

I have had to leave a lot out on this wee blog, usually because so much happens of note, or because we don't have time to tap out words, and more often than that because we are putting in long days. Also, just as often, we don't have internet access. Hopefully I hit some highlights and some lowlights.
The Giro d'Italia stage that we saw was really an amazing event. It had a festival feel to it and being part of the crowd along the road and cheering the cyclists on was a lot of fun, despite it being cold, raining and us feeling on the verge of hypothermia. The side trip up around Cervinia for the stage was entirely worth the effort. Seeing other cyclists riding the same road that we had and wheezing, without trailers, made me feel like we had been crazy and a bit brave to do it with our towage. It wasn't until we were on our way back down the same road that I saw the gradient percentage signs of 15per cent. I wondered if they had taken the signs down on the uphill for the Giro so as not to demolish the racers spirits completely. On the way down it started to rain and just became more insistent as we rode. By the time we reached the camp we were soaked and it was just a matter of unblissfully setting up our tent, which was already soggy, and trying to keep every one of our belongings from becoming drenched. It rained and rained. We stayed in our tent almost the entire next day until the rain broke around dinner time. I read a book that day and moved on to another. It was not restful exactly, but it was a day of little movement. After that is when we headed on to Torino.


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