For anyone who has ever dreamed of racing bikes in Europe but for whatever reason never made it happen, do yourself a favour, get yourself a plane ticket to Italy and sign up for a Gran Fondo!Gran Fondo means long distance or great endurance in Italian and my experience was nothing short of amazing. Over the years I have spent lots of time training and travelling in Europe but all of my racing has been contained to the North American continent. After a couple of trips to the Italian dolomites I heard about a race that covered the same roads used in countless Giro D’Italia’s. It was something that immediately appealed to me after years of reading about the epic mountain battles of the Giro in Velonews.
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