Riding Day 2: Sept 10 Pianetto (Santa Sofia) to San Sepolcro
After the good sleep of exhaustion, I rolled out the front door and up the street, map showed a lane way down to main road. Didn't like the look of the "laneway" and could not see my riding companions there at bottom so I turned around and took nice roads to the agreed meeting point.
It was lovely cool day to start with. We rode on into Santa Sofia where we turned and started to climb. As expected, I was definitely the slowest of the bunch climbing. We gathered at the first summit for a rest and some photos.
That was Ok but when we got to
https://goo.gl/maps/EbeVsKTUqPKJpt648, we proceeded on but maybe we should have instead taken the left turn back to the main road. From there on the road degraded into a track. Eventually Kate out front was riding/walking into a huge amount of nettles overgrowing the track - so at about
https://goo.gl/maps/KB372Nxixs3SALt97 we decided to abandon and walk through the farmers field up the road.
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Chris pushing thru the field
(Chris is outstanding in his field?) |
If you are re-using Patrick's route, then either:
- Stay on the main road - do not turn off at first blue oval like we did,
- Or return to main road soon, turn left at second blue oval (there is a very faint road there used by cars).
Soon we were crossing the Passo del Carnaio
Great view!
We got up some great high speed (for some of us) descending and then more climbing. We had a pause at Verghereto (about 34 km done for me).
where we were able to recharge the ebikes. They had pasta, beer, soft drinks, coffee etc etc.
To get to our destination we had to take a road closed to cars and popular with cyclists:
At some stage after that, Patrick and Kate pushed ahead leaving Chris riding with me to ride into San Sepolcro. On the ridge above San Sepolcro Chris decided to try an alternative route - but I was concerned that it was going to drop one onto a busy route so I stayed on the planned route.
A good day!
The following day was a rest day to watch the festival in San Sepolcro.
