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Giro d’Italia 2025 – Mapei Day

November 14, 2025March 31, 2025

I’m very happy to confirm I have secured a spot in the 2025 edition of the Mapei Memorial Aldo Sassi, cycling a motorized traffic-free Stelvio 🥳

The Re Stelvio Mapei / Memorial Aldo Sassi is a classic, with some 3,000 enthusiasts, including runners and cyclists, both professionals and amateurs, like me.

It is a rare opportunity to climb this mighty pass stress free and I’ve enjoyed a “Mapei Day” before, back in 2011, on my birthday.

This year’s edition is on Sunday, July 13th. Given my Prologue on Friday, I’d better plan an easier stage on Saturday.

Maybe Bormio 2000 or another end of the breathtaking Torri di Fraele – the Turripiano ascent was in both the 2011 and the 2015 Giro d’Italia.

Prepping for the Giro

November 14, 2025March 21, 2025

As has become customary for my Grand Tours, I have a few activities planned as preparation.

While it is impossible to tackle anything even remotely close to the long climbs that I will encounter during the Giro, I can at least plan long(er) rides through hilly areas not too far away from home.

Giro d’Italia 2025 (UCI)

November 14, 2025January 14, 2025

After a delay of two months, the route of the 2025 Giro d’Italia was presented yesterday.

The Grande Partenza and two other stages in Albania where already “leaked” in advance.

Stage 1 and 3 will be 160 kilometer hilly stages, stage 2 a 13.7 kilometer ITT.

Giro d’Italia 2025 – Mapei Day

November 14, 2025December 12, 2024

For my Giro d’Italia 2025, I’m hoping to get a spot in the Re Stelvio Mapei.

I believe this is taking place on the second Sunday in July every year, which means it would be on Sunday the 13th, 2025.

However, we arrive in Bormio on July 11th and I’m not sure if there will be an online (pre-)registration, so I’m a little anxious that the 3,000 participants limit might be reached before I get a chance to enter.

Giro d’Italia 2025 – Prologue

November 14, 2025December 10, 2024

With our base camp in Bormio – Valdisotto, I can plot the Prologue of my Giro d’Italia 2025.

As is customary, this will start in/near a stop-over for the night on our way there.

There are a few (stop-over) options, but I want to avoid “useless” miles and car transfer(s) – either to the start or to the apartment – as much as possible.

This rules out most and leaves the option to start in Davos or Albula.