Training for a Granfondo? Perhaps the Maratona dles Dolomites
Post courtesy of Bruce Hendler at AthletiCamps: High Quality Coaching and Performance Cycling Camps, based in Northern California. Bruce is an old cycling friend of mine with whom I spent many hours pedaling and racing alongside. He has become a legend of cycling wisdom thanks to his [...]
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Professional Road Racing Training Tips
Trail Running & Mountain Biking
We have been working with some friends to create some tourism marketing material to promote the Dolomites for trail running and mountain biking. A collaborative video project showing off the region’s offerings is in the works and will be ready to post this coming winter. Our goal with this new image collection is to really [...]
Tuscany’s L’Eroica Cycling Race
L’Eroica: Chianti’s Vintage Cycling Event
Tuscany’s L’Eroica bike race in Italy is a regular occurrence, for races are everywhere, every weekend. But each fall since 1997, Tuscany’s Chianti Region is host to a special kind of race, L’Eroica, a vintage Cycling event. Italian roads are typically silky smooth pavement represented as yellow lines on maps. But [...]
Passo Giau, Duran & Tre Cime di Lavaredo
Thanks to our Guest Contributor Alex Newport-Berra for his description of riding the famous Dolomite passes and his cycling adventures.
Editor’s note… Alex was connected to us through a mutual friend after he expressed interest in spending time riding in the Dolomites. He arrived with his bike and little else, checked into Alta Badia’s Ustaria Posta [...]
Bench Season
As a cyclist, I have a fifth season; Bench Season. It is spread amongst the autumn and winter months and typically only falls on the warmer days, or, mood and time permitting – any day where I pass a bench with views and solitude.
For the last 22 years of my life, I have spent cumulatively [...]
Maratona dles Dolomites Photos & Story
Being a professional photographer and bike racer, I have been to and competed in many, many events. None more beautiful, special, and well organized than the Maratona dles Dolomites. The fact that 23,000 people apply for entry to the 9000 openings says something. It is a worthy event to take part in.
In 2007 I was [...]
Maratona dles Dolomites Cycling Week
Undeniably, the Maratona dles Dolomites is one of the greatest cycling events in the world. One day, nearly 10,000 riders, 140 km, 9 passes, 4200 meters of climbing and all amongst one of the world’s most spectacular landscapes, the Italian Dolomites.
Leading up to race day is the Maratona dles Dolomites week, which grows each day [...]
Dolomite’s Mountain Biking | Steve Casimiro
After 6 straight days of rain, and little to show for it but two very muddy mountain bikes sitting on our balcony – I will let our friend, and National Geographic Adventure Editor, Steve Casimiro do the talking for mountain biking in the Dolomites.
Steve Casimiro also runs the wildly popular and successful website/blog/adventure news site: [...]
Granfondos
Road Bike Racing: The Granfondos
For the road bike racers in the audience… let’s face it, watching Euro racing on TV gets our heart rates up, makes us drool at the roads, the fans, the landscape and especially the energy. Who doesn’t dream of racing in Europe? Not a pro? Not a problem. Opportunity is knocking [...]
Passo delle Erbe | Cycling in the Dolomites
Road Biking the Passo delle Erbe / Würzjoch
In the spring of 2007 I rode the Passo delle Erbe for the first time. It was one of the first big loops I ever did in the Dolomites and a day I’ll never forget because the ride was perfect. The entire experience left me in awe at [...]
