Consider for a moment the final budget:
-a broken valve and an air chamber exploded
a light-red-white light lost
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-two bruises on his left knee (a I, a Sarah)
-a front wheel-throwing
come out of time
-wet as chicks
...
celo ago but who do?
left Genoa on Saturday morning with the train of 11.40, obvious risk of losing it, we arrived in Milan on time and after we bought the map in search of discarded square Herculean (again emphasis on U).
The square was already packed full of competitors and really cool bike and Sarah, who thought he was going to compete with grandmothers and grandchildren, he began to worry. Affiliation (numbers 21 and 23), lunch with flatbread "price Milan 7 € "and talking with the few that I know fixed. Apparently we missed the beautiful Criterium last night, won by a Gang of Pipe. In fact, the videos convey a nice atmosphere. http://www. youtube.com / watch? v = _17jRZpK0bM & feature = player_embedded
"But you run on your own or not?" "Dunno, he has not understood ...". comes time to lay the bike down and tie them, we are a hundred , the square is full! Five checks to be done in the order listed on the manifest, (not the same for all) with tests to be completed from time to time. Erculea Back to square after each stage.
3-2-1-GO! We run to untie the bike and while Sarah I open the map. We decide to give up my manifest and run together, a lot more fun. The first half is behind my grandmother's house, fairground, bring a beer. I tell Sarah the name of the streets, you know them, we go.
soon discover that in Milan the shortest route is not necessarily shorter because there is Paveto: with small tires you suffer a lot. However, the path is right and after having met with Matt and he bought the beer with him ... we get to check where it is drunk in track stand! Despite bad in workouts!
back to the start and then off to square Abbiategrasso, more insidious way, lots of tracks! In fact, when I hear a noise behind me and scrap Sarah slipped into that which has the front wheel and flew. "Nooo, Matte, the chain has fallen!" "No Sarah, you split the wheel." Tragicomic moments.
I am a bit 'but discouraged ciclaio open in the parallel street seems a sign of destiny: we must continue! Berry tie without the front wheel, I load Sarah on the handlebars and go buy a new wheel. Tire change pit stop and we are again ready to go, a bit 'more cautious than before. I have a good squeeze.
check and it was easy to go back up. I try to explain to Sarah a bit 'of techniques for maneuvering in traffic, in the end we never really trained for. At the start, we find that Matthew has retired and now saint, there provides the map that we, in the excitement, we had lost. We miss the station area and the Parco Lambro (!) That, despite the traffic, we can do quite well. But now it's late and no time to do the last check, the closest one.
Oh well. Following the large group that goes to the three-year pull the threads of this race. Great fun to be redone with more nastiness. Unfortunately, due to organizational mess can not see even a little film. Too bad, there was the short girls that ride bikes in heels nightclub in Copenhagen very promising!
starts to rain, mountains of awards ("Damn! No broken wheel came third of women!) (" Riaccidenti! Twelve frame for the first Out of Town!).
We are hungry and there's even a rinfreschino. I promise that if ever there will be organized in Genoa tons of fugassa. We're going to eat with George (second place for the Messenger of MI-SW!) While others prefer to go home. When we get to Mexico we are soaked.
But there's more! free shower again to get to Leoncavallo's Day (very small room in the best reggae) and shower again to get home to Sarah: another 20 km added to those of us throughout the day would come, probably over 70!
Unfortunately, or fortunately, the hole in the rear wheel. And in trying to fix it I break the valve. And 'now demanding that the father of Sarah, which fortunately is to get us! A collapsed house destroyed.
Fairly intense as before but Sarah Alleycat for the budget, despite everything, has been positive endorphins win on the misfortunes and afflictions! And the next? La Spezia - Pisa?
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