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Györgyi Gábor: From the snowy mountains to the sandy beach (2000)
After getting experiences on five cycletours in Slovakia and two in Austria and Slovenia in july 2000 I was ready to bike on my most serious tour in my life: to push the pedals from my favourite area, the Dolomites - which is said to be one of the world’s most beaufiful mountain-ranges – reaching the Adriatic sea to Nagykanizsa, a hungarian town next to the border. As in last year this year I also travelled to Cavalese, the place of our holiday with my parents, from where I set out the 1400km long – with a 3 day long detour – homeway after a week long training, warming up and programs together with my parents. In every case I wanted to visit the wonderful Lake Garda – which I only heard about – and Venice that I liked from the videos, but where I also hadn’t been before. During the week I spent in the Dolomites with my parents I made three beautiful cycletours and managed to cycle through some passes.

Biketour from the Dolomites to Hungary

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2004-09-13 12:38:20

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centigrade) I changed my registration for the longer distance to the shorter B distance. I had been waiting for climbing up to the Stilfser Joch for months but I had to decide that, because I didn’t want to get cold and not to arrive home by bike. After the marathon I had to cycle a lot of kilometers. In the tourist office the officers were friendly: because the cold weather they welcome the bikers with brandy. In my hotelroom that I had reserved from Hungary I fell asleep with a little bit of excitement.

2nd day: Dreiländer Radgiro Bicyclemarathon = 136 km + 2020 m heightdifference
While the competitors who chose the longer distance started in the early morning I and the other competitors who chose the shorter distance started at 8.30 am after a salute of guns and voices of trumpets. We were about 300. We were cycling up on the gently sloping ascent of the Reschenpass under middle clouds and somewhere blue sky. On our 136 km we had to climb the 1504m high Reschenpass, then the 2149m high Ofenpass and at last the 1471m high Norbertshöhe.
I took some warm clothes and tools in the small bag before the handle-bars. After the start I was going to the first half of the peloton with a good speed. On the plateau and on the descent I couldn’t go so fast like the racebikres because of my touringbike and I didn’t want to hurry. At nice places I stopped to make photos. Next to a nice lake after the summit we get a view to the mountains around the Stilfser passroad. There was snowy above about the height of 2000m. It should had been snowing in the night. From Glurns we had to turn towards Switzerland and the 2149m high Ofenpass. Between the cyclists everybody could find the other bikers who were pushing the pedals with the same pace. In Sta. Maria the bikers from the two distances came together; the guys and girls from the A distance had already gone through the 2760m high Passo dello Stelvio. At the freshing point ...