Italian Grandfondo calendar for 2011?

Steve GT

I need a goal for 2011.

Having trained and achieved my main goal for the year – doing the Marmotte in early July, I have regained all the hard lost pounds, damn! :roll:
I plan to do the Vattenrunden 300Km ride in Sweden in June with the missus, but want a personal goal for myself a little later on in the year. Having done a big ride in France I would now prefer to try one of the grandfondos in Italy. I have googled ‘grandfondos’ but found no website that gave me a calendar of events in Italy, so can anyone help me out with a link to a website that may point me to a good tough grandfondo, ideally in August or September?

Karl2010

Google 'colnago granfondo'

Ron Stuart

Maratona dles Dolomites

I have done this and I can recommend it highly, you will need to enter very soon if you can. I entered via Cycling Weekly who get a lot places allocated to them. Here's a link.....
http://www.maratona.it/info/a-conditions-entry/en

risi

A calendar:

http://www.dalzero.it/gran_fondo_ciclismo.htm

(Google chrome will translate the page in-situ for you. Apologies if I'm telling you something you already know).

It's a very long list...

risi

Having worked in the area, I would quite like to do the Fondo Marsicana.
Doesn't seem particularly tough - 145km and a tad over 1800m climbing - but the scenery is quite something. And it is in August!

Steve GT

Thanks for all the info guys. Risi , the calendar is exactly what I was looking for and could not find.

Italiano

There isn't yet the whole calendar out so you have to wait 1 more month circa.

Anyway if you want a hard one in September, I would suggest the Granfondo Avesani in Verona.