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The weather was perfect, sunny and warm in the valleys, cool on the mountaintops. We headed SW from Cortina to climb Passo Giau, a 10 km climb. That seems short enough except that the middle 4 km average nearly 10% and the final 3 km average 9%. By the top, Reb observed that it felt more like doing squats in a gym than riding a bike. We’re learning quickly that if it’s Dolomitic, it’s steep.<\/p>\n

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Nearing the top of Passo Giau<\/p><\/div>\n

We returned through Cortina just before noon and headed east up Tre Croci (“Three Crosses”). This was a moderate climb of 8 km, 580 m vertical. Then we descended and climbed some more to a lake, where we stopped for lunch. We had a decision to make. We had ridden only 30 mi., but climbed 6,000 ft to that point. Ahead of us lay Tre Cimi.<\/p>\n

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Atop Passo Giau–which way does the wind blow?<\/p><\/div>\n

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Reb, relaxing atop Giau after his gym workout<\/p><\/div>\n

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Only a titan could have ridden this bike to the top of Giau. It’s a real bike with steel-rimmed wheels.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The weather was perfect, sunny and warm in the valleys, cool on the mountaintops. We headed SW from Cortina to climb Passo Giau, a 10 km climb. That seems short enough except that the middle 4 km average nearly 10% … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cycling","tag-dolomiti"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sayjack.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/wpid-Photo-Sep-8-2013-443-PM.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3QqGi-8v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sayjack.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sayjack.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sayjack.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sayjack.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sayjack.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sayjack.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sayjack.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sayjack.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sayjack.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sayjack.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}