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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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point there were a lot of cyclists. I enjoyed very much when some of them took a banana or drink from the hands of the organizors without stopping. I took delight of the view of the mountains towards the Ofenpass. In the first part I could overtake some competitors with a good gear, but on the section with its 8-10% steepness I had to change gears and because of the big difference between them I was cycing with the others with 12 km/h. On the 10% steep descent of the pass I flew down in warm clothes, but there were some bikers who overtook me; maybe they knew the road. Between Zernez – where we got drinks and some food – and the austrian border we could push the pedals on a light descent. In the first part I could bike with the 35-40 km/h speed of others, but than I preferred to bike with my own pace. From the last freshing point, Martina we had only 6 km climb. The great number of the bikers made me cycle with a good speed; I overtook a lot of them which I enjoyed very much because they had a light bike, but mine was about 14 kg weight. That’s true that I think most of them had the passroad up to The Passo Stelvio in their legs. In the finish, Nauders there were barriers on the sides of the road. It was a good feeling that some of the local inhabitants welcome each cyclist with applause. After I got the jersey and other souvenirs I spent the afternoon with having a rest and with watching the Wimbledon tennis final, which was won by my favourite, Pete Sampras. I sadly hear on TV that next day a cold and rainy weather would come, so I changed my mind about my programs. It wasn’t worth cycling to between the high mountains in a rainy and cold weather. In spite of that I decided to hurry cycling away from the mountains towards the warmer area of the Lake Garda. (I arrived at the finish about at the two thirds of the peoloton B.)

3rd day: Nauders (A) – Mals (I) – Merano – Bolzano – Leifers = 126 km + 200 m heightdifference
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