Cyclopaat, an alter ego with a twist
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.
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.
While the presentation of both the women’s and men’s Giro d’Italia routes have been postponed, I’m not sitting on my hands waiting for it.
Besides, I’m pretty sure that the routes are basically finished, only a problem with the “Grande Partenza” preventing the official presentation(s).
Anyway, I have started to put together some ideas for my own Giro d’Italia 2025…
The official Giro d’Italia 2025 will be announced on November 12, so I beat them to the punch officially announcing my own Giro d’Italia.
Since my previous post on the possibility of getting another Giro in the books, I’ve been looking for apartments in the area that Grasshopper would like to visit.
As he mentioned the Sella Ronda as a “want to do”, I was looking for options around the Sella Group.
Provided you want to do other climbs in the area, best places would be Corvara, Arabba or Canazei, with Pocol or Cortina d’Ampezzo as alternatives.
The possibility of another Giro d’Italia is becoming a reality, although the base camp will most likely not be in the Dolomites, but in the area around Bormio.
But if you think Bormio is “just” about the equally beautiful but less legendary climb of the Stelvio, or the deemed “easier” end of the Gavia, you are sadly mistaken.
True, at the centre of the upper Valtellina valley in the province of Sondrio, Bormio is mostly a popular winter sports resort.
