Gran Fondo Milan Sanremo, 05 June 2011
FransJacques
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Bit of a change from your std UK sportive, 2 mates & I rode the Milan-Sanremo last Sunday. http://www.milano-sanremo.org/
Was an epic day with rain and more rain so hard it hurt your face, 900 riders, 50+ kph first hour, 45kph 2nd hour, 40 kph 3rd hour, repeat. No climbs to speak of until the last ~30 kms. Lots of camraderie, lots of cars along the coast road. Great scenery.
Stats for me were http://connect.garmin.com/activity/90804733:
- 295 kms
- 1900 vert meters
- 34 kp/h avg.
- 158 bpm avg HR
- 189 bpm max (this was in the first 2 hours probably)
Anyone else ride it? Highly recommended. For EUR 50 you get a jersey and lots of food and a post-ride pasta party.
Was an epic day with rain and more rain so hard it hurt your face, 900 riders, 50+ kph first hour, 45kph 2nd hour, 40 kph 3rd hour, repeat. No climbs to speak of until the last ~30 kms. Lots of camraderie, lots of cars along the coast road. Great scenery.
Stats for me were http://connect.garmin.com/activity/90804733:
- 295 kms
- 1900 vert meters
- 34 kp/h avg.
- 158 bpm avg HR
- 189 bpm max (this was in the first 2 hours probably)
Anyone else ride it? Highly recommended. For EUR 50 you get a jersey and lots of food and a post-ride pasta party.
When a cyclist has a disagreement with a car; it's not who's right, it's who's left.
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Chapeau! 290km is pretty impressive. I drove along that coast last year on the way to Nice, and it is spectacular. Did you cycle through all the tunnels, or was that only the larger roads?
There is a direct train from here to Milan, I am slightly tempted...0 -
Ah, I messed up the Garmin link, it's: http://connect.garmin.com/activity/90804733 (without the colon at the end).
We didn't take the highway through all the tunnels, we went right down to the coast road and rode through holiday town after holiday down in a peloton of 25-40 riders, right by sidewalk cafes full of people eating lunch and posing in their fancy cars. It was rather hairy to say the least, I almost ended up as a grill ornament on a Ferrari F430 who was riding the centre line coming the other way and wouldn't move over. I felt the rider behind me hit me, but we both stayed up and continued on.
Avg speed was good b/c I managed to hang with the front group for the first 150kms or so over the big hill of the day (the Passo Turchino) and down onto the coast road. Then it split up.
For Freire, Cavendish & Goss to get over the lumps towards the end after 280kms then sprint coming off the Poggio is immense. Cancellara OTOH would have no issue b/c the climbs are more big ring power-climbs rather than small-ring twiddlers.When a cyclist has a disagreement with a car; it's not who's right, it's who's left.0
