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I had thrown them in a previous post: "... if anyone wants to come here to run from me just ask hill ..." and behold, my friend promptly Furio says this syrup is ... an hour's drive with his Pandino and comes to racing here in the valley of Ticino. Since I
Saturday lunchtime longer agree to do this long hill in this time, we are in the Canton Loreto area in canal (who lives in Oleggio to understand), and after two quick chat and some photos for photographers leave for this long to be finalized after 26km, the conditional this track is a must because I tried twice but always in a shorter and different, in fact, today will be the first part runs on dirt roads and some of the grass length of 6 km and then becomes instead a more hard and technique about 10 km to be repeated twice.

left two bottles behind that fence that you see in the picture, as in wipe them between 6 km and head north, as I said this part is more flat and fast and the fund will be dirt but compact , it comes and it goes a little too fast considering the type of work we should do in these first km the road is wide and we are side by side, explain Furio to the various things that are on either side of our journey, the sun warms up too quickly by temperature, less than half an hour go over in the starting area and continue south, the land taken from two bottles, drink a sip and carry with us for a few hundred meters to the entrance of the forest, while the sun disappeared to give space to the fog that slowly is coming out, we leave the water on the ground near a plant and begin to climb for this path are curious to try Furio.
Here, you put in a straight line or nearly silent and runs, and I go because the only way I know myself, as I said last time the peculiarity of this circuit is that over to be tight in some places is a constant up and down with several changes of direction, the bottom is mixed leaves, soil and sometimes a trunk emerges from soil or rock, after 10 km Furio pointed out to me that we are having a gait near the middle of the long, in fact, there are still many miles to do, then I try to blend a little better rhythm, so we come to more winding stretch that also used the bike as a circuit, here the heat go up the legs but I'm going well, we suddenly emerged from the forest floor in the side of the canal and came to cross the state do a U-turn, passing on the road parallel to the one just below that done then we will report on the same track done before back up to where we left the bottles.
This is the opposite ascent and descent that seems to do a little less effort, but in fact, the rate is always high, occasionally exchanged a few fleeting words, and in an hour and a quarter we turn to bottles of U take the new drink more than a shot and we bring with us again to let a little further ahead, we are at the 17 km mark and fatigue began to be felt, or rather feel a hardening of the left leg hip area, where even in the days earlier because of various slopes gave me some trouble, slow down a bit, and continue with Furio behind me, occasionally farther in the plans or sections after the downhill and sometimes behind the uphill, as we were always together in tandem.
After dodging a group of 5 / 6 motocross bikes that were too "the track in the opposite direction (large fine stuff as the Park of Ticino), we come back to the state and turn back, we are at the 21 km mark and then say to Furio ... not bad hilly half in 1h 39'.... he asks me what is lacking in the water bottles and I tell them that missing 2.5 km ... because you're thirsty? :-)
obviously are too dry, I feel that I drink, my legs are heavy, I would like to pause for a moment but I know this feeling well and I learned to deal with it, I focus on where I put my feet and step by step we arrive at the bottles, drink and take away business until the end. It
come out so more than 26 km events at a great pace, a handshake with the great friend aware of the excellent training just completed, then the usual photos with photographers who have waited all this time :-) and Furio then pulls out two beers from his Pandino strong so officially this combination Oleggio-Domodossola done either on one side or the other.
Thank you again dear friend for coming up there just to run together ... so many could be crazy .. but for those of us who do this sport knows what it means ...