Reflections on 21 Days of Italian Cooking Italian food is globally celebrated. Pasta and pizza are foods you can find everywhere. Yet, apart from pizza, I didn’t cook a lot of Italian food prior to this. Partly, it’s because I was afraid of some of the ingredients that are common in Italian cooking. If you…

The Stage I take back what I said in yesterday’s post, today’s stage was the Queen stage. The stage was a 205 km route through Piedmonte with the hardest climb of the whole Giro: Colle delle Finestre. Delle Finestre was 40 km away from the finish line and was a 19 km climb with an…

The Stage Today’s stage was likely the hardest stage of the Giro. In cycling terms this is referred to as the “Queen Stage.” It’s tough to quantify exactly which stage is the hardest, you could make arguments for other stages that were longer for example, or tomorrow’s stage which has the hardest climb. But today’s…

Cycling 101: Cycling as a team sport? We talk a lot of individual cyclists when we talk about a stage. The winner is an individual. But cycling is a team sport. For a grand tour (like the Tour de France or the Giro) a team may be made up of 8 riders. However, as we…

The Stage Today’s stage was an epic fight to Bormio, and despite hope for the breakwaway it ended up being a GC day. While the stage was much shorter than yesterday’s at 155 km long, it had 3,800 meters of climbing and was the stage with the second highest number of meters of climbing per…

The Stage Today the Giro started in Veneto, not too far west from Venice, and made its way across several challenging mountain passes to the town of San Valentino. A war of attrition led to major shakeups in the GC today. During the first half of the day very rainy conditions led to a few…

The Stage Today’s stage was a long one. At 219 km in length it’s the second longest in terms of distance, but with 1,300 meters more in climbing than the longest stage (stage 6) this stage definitely felt much longer as a viewer (let alone a racer!) Despite this, the riders were incredibly fast, taking…

Cycling 101: Titans of Cycling Today’s stage had a course that weaved in and out of Slovenia. The finishing town, Nova Gorica, sits on the border of Italy and Slovenia (think Kansas City). Upon entering Slovenia there were enormous crowds enthusiastically cheering on the peloton, and their hometown hero, Primož Roglič. Roglič is one of…

Cycling 101: What’s up with the team names? Cycling team names can be pretty weird. And to make things even more confusing, they change all the time. That’s because team names are based on sponsors. So a team can be the same in terms of culture, identity, style, and even riders, but have multiple names…