Training Log Archive: Charlie

Bus ride along the coast of Calabria, Basilicata and Campania. Stunning terrain, a beautiful day. Beaches, mountains, old towns. Left the hotel in Rende at 8, brief stops in Diamante and Scalea, headed for Paestum.

Turned out to be just a travel day. We stopped and watched the elite sprint camp participants race in Castellabate, tiny town with lots of twisty streets and stairs. They had two loops on a small map, went off in flights of 7 as a mass start. Highlight was Daniel Hubmann holding off Ricardo Scalet by about 20 meters with the others well back, at least a minute.

The plan was for us to get maps and at least to walk around after the races, but they still had heats going off at 5:15, it was getting colder, and people were tired, so off to the hotel, arriving at 6.

This is a much nicer hotel, and much better food than the other places we have been staying. Dinner was a first course of paccheri (large pasta tubes) with cubes of swordfish and an eggplant sauce. They were obliging enough to come around offering seconds. Second course was amberjack breaded and baked, with a zucchini purée and julienned carrots and zucchini. Then a dessert of several little kinds of mousse, including a chocolate one and a limoncello one, very elegantly presented. Quite fine.