Training Log Archive: Sandy

Many hours walking around Florence Friday, yesterday and today. Also took a wonderful tour of some wineries out in the Chianti region and drove around the Tuscan countryside yesterday.

Nice walk around Florence for a couple hours this evening seeing some of the sights.

Can definitely feel yesterday's hike!

Bus to Alpino then trail to Mottarone. It was a pretty relentless up followed by some spectacular views north to Switzerland and the alps and then a relentless down back to the bus stop. Have a garmin track but my tablet won't recognize the ant stick. Will have to check the climb when I get home.

(This time is for the parts where I forgot to start the watch.)

Yup, pretty steep. Forgot to start the watch again after getting down the steepest part of the trail and taking a lunch break.

And as usual, slower down the hill than up.

Hike from Stresa to Alpino, the long way with several unintentional detours as I kept not quite following the signs properly. It is part of a trail marked from Stresa to Mottarone and the plan was to hike to the top of Mottarone and then back down halfway to Alpino and take the bus back down the rest of the way. I still do not know how I took the wrong route out of Levo, but I wandered for about 20 minutes down a lovely road before taking out my phone to figure out where I was and realizing I was not where I wanted to be. I got back to the last sign, and tried again but still couldn't find a sign pointing in any direction other than the way I had just gone. So I took some random twisty roads that went in sort of the right direction (basically up the mountain) and finally stumbled on the trail but from completely the wrong direction. By the time I got to Alpino I wasn't sure I could make it to the top and back down again before the last bus so I just called it a day and took the next bus back to Stresa. I did not have a good map with me as I had assured the trail was well marked. Which it generally was, but buying a good map would have been the smart move.

C • An adventure 1

Actually started in Stressa right on the edge of the lake, but forgot to start the watch until part way up the hill. That time is in the other entry.

Another hike along the beach, this time in bare feet. I would have to work on toughening them up to go any longer.

C • Bon voyage 5

Two 10 minute sessions, one pre walk and the other post.