Long-distance hiking and 3-week cycling races
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| jcerni2. 07. 2024 09:01:08 |
When I was on long-distance hikes in Italy and France I always wondered in places where I knew Tour de France e.g. 2024 or Giro d'Italia had gone, just where the route was. On this year's Giro d'Italia I saw places in the Apennines on TV again, where I hiked years ago.
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| nejcf2. 07. 2024 23:02:42 |
I have to say about you, that for 90% of the topics you open, I have no idea what they are supposed to be about
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| jcerni3. 07. 2024 04:51:59 |
It's about the connection between hiking and 3-week cycling races.
GPX tracks have enabled us to hike Europe as if we were at home. Personally, without them I wouldn't have the opportunity to hike effectively in the Slovak Low Tatras, Brittany, Apennines etc. Hikers don't have support vehicles like cyclists, e.g. on Tour de France 2024, to guide us through unknown landscapes.
But long-distance hiking and 3-week cycling races are most connected. We just have different means: hikers' poles and our own legs. Cyclists have bikes. We all move through vast landscapes. Cyclists are faster and cover much greater distances per day. They use local and regional roads. Long-distance hikers push through the landscape on all kinds of paths: trails, cart tracks, gravel, local and regional roads.
All face dangers on the way like wild animals, cars, storms, slips on terrain ...
Hiking has many aspects: related sports, cultural landscape, movement technique, orientation in space etc. It's good to see the forest and also the trees in the forest, if I use the metaphor. Then things get interesting.
On the Tour de France 2024 website the most interesting for people is the Google map showing individual stages Tour de France 2024
Although the website also shows Instagram posts of interesting cyclists from individual stages; interesting Slovenian podcaster who presents daily events on each stage from his perspective; cycling businesses related to Tour de France 2024 etc.
In short: in my posts I cover individual aspects of long-distance hiking and related sports.
And perhaps some more curiosities I noticed while researching social networks, if we analyze participants in Tour de France 2024. Some cyclists post promptly, mainly on Instagram, snapshots and thoughts from individual stages. Remco Evenpoel uses Facebook for posting. His Instagram profile is not up to date.
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| jcerni21. 07. 2024 02:01:11 |
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| jcerni25. 08. 2024 08:06:01 |
The first 8 stages the cyclists rode through Portugal and Spain. They covered Portugal in 3 stages from the south (Lisbon) to the north. It is a more undulating landscape without any significant mountain range.
From stage 4 to stage 8, they rode through Andalusia (Spain). There are quite a few mountain ranges here that are up to 2,000 m high. The landscape is Mediterranean, as reflected in the trees, crops, and house architecture (all pure white). Citrus fruits and olives predominate among the crops. More on the link ...
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| jcerni29. 08. 2024 21:33:54 |
How are the Camino de Santiago paths in Spain and Vuelta 2024 connected (click!). Tomorrow the cyclists will battle in the 13th stage of the Vuelta in this northern part of Spain, more precisely in the northwest. It is not yet the real Pyrenees. You can also read there where the real Pyrenees are and where the quasi-Pyrenees are and what they are called.
The Pyrenees are something like the Karavanke in Slovenia. How to distinguish the Kamnik-Savinja Alps and Karavanke in Slovenia? The Karavanke are on the border with Austria, while the Kamnik-Savinja Alps are shifted a bit into the interior of Slovenia. They are very close together also near Tržič. From Tržič you can go to Kofce and further to Veliki vrh (Karavanke). Or you can go to Dobrča, Kriška gora; those are the Kamnik-Savinja Alps.
And something more about the area where the 13th Pyrenees stage will take place; we named them simply false Pyrenees: Sierra de Ancares is often described as part of the broader Pyrenees area, but technically it is not part of the main Pyrenees mountain system. However, this mountain range is important for understanding the entire mountainous area in northwest Spain and has characteristics similar to the Pyrenees.
What does "false Pyrenees" mean?
The term "false Pyrenees" could refer to areas that are not part of the main Pyrenees mountain chain but have similar geographical or geological characteristics.
Sierra de Ancares is an example of such an area, as it lies east of the main Pyrenees and is located in a transitional area between the Pyrenees and lower mountain areas that transition into a more flat environment.
Key features of Sierra de Ancares:
Location: Northwest part of Spain, between the provinces of León and Lugo.
Elevation: The Puerto de Ancares pass is at approximately 1,658 m.
Mountain character: It has characteristics similar to the Pyrenees, including mountain peaks, hilly terrain, and natural beauties.
Conclusion:
Although Sierra de Ancares is not part of the main Pyrenees chain, due to its geological and topographical characteristics it can be considered an area connected to the Pyrenees. It can be regarded as "false Pyrenees" in the sense that it represents an area with some similarities to the main Pyrenees mountain system, but it is not part of it.
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| jcerni5. 09. 2024 18:50:17 |
19th stage of Vuelta 2024 goes the most of all 21 stages along the most famous St. James path, which is the French Way (Camino Francés) (click for map). It's in the Spanish province of Basque Country.
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