The final tally for our week of riding across Italy shows 406 miles with 35,062 feet of climbing.  That’s for 8 days, and Race Day was essentially a rainout with only 14 miles on the day. These numbers end up … Continue reading →

  We celebrated another memorable cycling week in Europe with a salad, bruschetta and pizza dinner at a little café with a view to the Adriatic.  A bus was picking us up at 3:30 AM the next morning to take … Continue reading →

Recanati is only 7 or 8 km away from Loreto, home to Hotel San Francesco, our lodging, but it might as well have been 15 miles because of the deep valley that lay between the two towns.  Thus, we put … Continue reading →