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75 km 4:35 925 meters Finally left early- on the road at 8:45. Once again we went the wrong way which meant climbing a hill. Turned back and got back on the right route. Beautiful first 30 km – perfect temp, sunny and right climbing gradient Secondary road closed around 30 km at castel something.…

85 km distance 5:40 to complete 1640 meters climbed Very hard day – had to dig deep – almost cried when I realized two of the climbs had high gradient but I did it. Rough roads – had to get off bike on the descents. Remote and beautiful region. A wonderful descent towards the end…

90 km 1141 meters 4:39 Left on a downhill Sun is shining – beautiful day for a ride. Two really hard climbs with me getting off the bike. The last climb had a gradient of 8.9 percent over 1.9 km with the last km climbing 150 meters. Straight up on gravel. I was not doing…

80 km 4:20 1359 meters Peter didn’t feel great – stomach, bowel and neck problems. Didn’t complain but I was worried. I used voltaren on his neck and we stopped at pharmacy for Imodium and Tylenol. Seemed to help. I felt pretty good – easy cycling for first 40 km with beautiful sights. Hard couple…

Happy to have a day off and to be on the bike today. A great day to hike and see the views from another angle. Off we went to the Camino del Gran Sasso. Fantastic panaromas with views of three hill top villages- Santa stefano, Castelnuovo and can’t remember the third one. We also saw…

86 km 5:15 1458 meters Hotel Santa Carolina We left Florence and of course went off track and went through a dark tunnel. I hate going through tunnels in the dark on a bike! Of course going the wrong way so had to make our way back through the tunnel to get back on track!…