Tag: Giro d’Italia
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Breakaway Bonanza: Giro d’Italia Week 2 Recap
Breakaways, a brutal time trial, and risotto alle milanese — recapping week 2 of the 2026 Giro d’Italia’s turn through Northwest Italy.
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GC Action in Italy: Stages 7-9
Giro d’Italia stages 7-9 featured some GC and breakaway action, and an easy snack to go along.
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Touchdown in Italy: Stages 4-7 Recap
This Giro d’Italia 2026 stage recap covers the chaos, crashes, and climbers sprinting in week 1 + the pizza I ordered to go with it.
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A Bulgarian Grande Partenza & a Cheesy Pie: Stages 1-3 Recap
The Giro d’Italia kicks off in Bulgaria for the first time — here’s a recap of the first stages, plus a homemade banitsa to celebrate.
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Giro d’Italia 2026 Preview
The Corsa Rosa heads to Bulgaria for the first time ever, and Jonas Vingegaard arrives as the man everyone wants to beat. Here’s a quick preview of what’s coming in the 2026 Giro d’Italia.
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Stage 21: What I learned after 21 Days of Cooking Italian
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…
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Stage 20: And we have a winner of the Giro d’Italia
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…
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Stage 19: Battle in the Alps and a Christmas-y Dinner
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…
