Cyclopaat, an alter ego with a twist
And just like that, in what seems the blink of an eye, my Giro d’Italia 2025 is over.
In hindsight, I should have put more time in preparing myself physically than on planning the whole thing.
Okay, at least I thought I was in pretty good shape until I crashed into a car during my preparations.
But to be honest, I don’t think I was…
Volkan didn’t arrive until late in the afternoon Thursday and not Wednesday as I thought.
After a long flight with a transfer in Munich, they forgot to load his bike in the plane heading for Milano 🤔
Which added a 4-hour delay waiting for it on the next flight, after which he had a 3-hour drive to Bormio.
Nevertheless, he got on the bike Friday morning and crushed every single climb…
Today’s stage was the Aldo Sassi Memorial ride up a car free Stelvio.
I left my prepared cloths bag for the return at the collecting point around 8 AM and went back to the apartment.
After all, I wouldn’t start before 9:30 anyway.
With the help of Mapdirector1, I’ve created “cinematic flyovers” of some of my Giro d’Italia stages.
I mean, the UCI Grand Tour organizers do it, so it’s only logical I do so as well 😂
As my roadbook is not completely finished, I have made these clips only for the stages that are “final”.
My previous post was about the stages grasshopper Volkan and I will ride together, this one is dedicated to the rest of the “Bormio road book”.
I will have a maximum of 15 days / stages, if I don’t break myself beyond recovery during any of those.
I have Friday’s Prologue worked out and Sunday the 13th will be Stelvio Mapei Day; whether or not I cycle anything else that day remains to be seen.
