The virtual Giro d'Italia started with a day through Abruzzo, a poisonous terrain that Ivan Basso refreshed in memory with his roller.
"For us, who come from the cart all our lives, a race like this is something totally new," Basso commented. I admit that I was impressed by the interactivity of the roller, a total realism. Knowing as I do many of the roads, the hills and the landings, it all feels very real. You hear the roller getting harder and softer depending on the terrain, terrain I've ridden my bike over. You understand how hard each section is."
On the terrain of the Gran Fondo 9 Colli.
In its second stage, the Virtual Giro d'Italia enters the Romagnathe land of the famous Marco Pantanitaking on the terrain of the twelfth stage, which started and finished at Cesenatico.
It will be held between Wednesday and Friday.
The race online focuses on an area known for the 9 Colli, one of the most important gran fondo of Italian cyclingleaving Linaro "in the direction of Sogliano, a broken terrain with Barboto as the main difficulty. It's four and a half kilometers at 9% and a peak of 17%".
The finish will take the virtual peloton to Sogliano al Rubiconean area renowned for the "formagio di fossa"..
It is a beautiful region: "If you are at sea, it is flat as a table, but when you go inland, it is not a meter of flat, a continuous hardness. Here is the complexity of the route, it is called medium mountain stageBut it's like a roller coaster, it doesn't allow you to breathe. Another thing is the amount of complicated slopes".
Texts:JoanSeguidor's Notebook
