Day 7 - The Stelvio

I pretty much covered the cycling to the Stelvio in my quick update a couple days ago. There will be some great picture up on the sight shortly if they are not there already. I'll try to add some here as well. Prior to hitting the Stelvio we had a quick 50 minute run through town. I ran with Steven and Gordo and what must have been a painfully slow pace for them but enjoyed being able to converse easily due to the leisurely pace. After the run we grabbed breakfast then took a quick 8 minute spin on the bikes down to the pool which was of course a 50 meter outdoor pool. Actually the facility had two 50 meter outdoor pools and diving platforms and waterslides and what seemed like 3000 lockers. The 11 of us had our on 50 meter pool which sure was nice. I decided to take advantage of the cold temps to swim in my wetsuit. Many of the campers have been using wetsuits as most of the pools up here in the mountains have a water temp in the 70s. I tried a couple swim tips Molina and Gordo had been throwing around the prior day and they really seemed to help as I swam my fastest 3 km ever. After the swim we had feed from the back of the van in the parking lot and then it was off to the Stelvio as reported previously. One thing I didn't mention was that we had a van ride back to Bolzen after climbing the Stelvio. Jo and Steven actually decided to descend back the way we came up to get a few more points for more cycling miles and I can't blame. We all certainly earned the downhill distance on the climb up but the rest of us were too cold/shelled to join them. Molina was asleep before we hit the first switchback in the car and the rest of us were pretty quiet as well. We picked up Jo and Steven at the base and motored back to Bolzen. Dinner was awfully satisfying.